The Dalles weekly chronicle. (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1947, January 02, 1897, PART 2, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTHE DALIjES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1897. The Weekly Gbfoniele. I craving for information if they would NOTICE. All eastern foreign advertisers are referred to oar representative, Mr. b. Katz, 230-234 Temple Court, New York City. Eastern advertising must oe con traded through him. STATU OFFICIALS. Governor . W. P. Lord Beeretary of State HE Kineaid Treunrer -Phillip Metscbsn Bupt. of Public Ins traction. O. M. Irwlo Attorney-General ; . . . . C. M. Idleman . JG. W. McBride 8naton - Jj.iH. Mitchell - ' i B Bermana -jwijiaBmcii. , R. EUls State Printer W. H. Leeds CODKIT OFFICIALS. Connty Judge.... Eobt Mara Sheriff- T. J. Driver Clerk A M. Kelsay Treaaurer C. L. Phillips Commissioners D . Kimsev Aiwessor W. H. Whipple Surveyor ,,olt Superintendent of Public School. . .C. L. Gilbert Coroner a- FORECLOSE AND SELL. The Oregonian arlvocntes the re funding of the debts of the Union and Central Pacific railroads, and giving them an extension of time in which o settle with the sovernment for debts now due it. The Union Pacific received aid. through the gov ernment to the amount of $33,539, 312, and the Central Pacific in the sum of 27,855,080. This amount was over ard above the vast area of lands given the roads outright. The government has paid for the Union Pacific in interest $60,552,853, and for the CeDtral $47,190,821. The total interest paid by the govern ment is $107,743,675. The roads have paid the government $49,349, 000, and still owe it $121,479,837 It will be seen at a glance that, ow- ing to the accumu'ation of interest and in "spite of all payments, the roadsowe twice as much now as they did when completed in 1869. The proposed scheme, engineered by Mr. Collis P. Huntington, is to have the sovernment extend the time of payment, at a reduced rale of interest, a rate way below what the government would have to pay for the use of the money. By. this scheme Huntington and his partners and successors in financial crime, would have the use of the money for a hundred years, that being the time wanted, practically without interest, In the meanwhile the difference be tween the interest the government would get and that it would pay would make a sum running well up towards two billion dollars, an amount equal to double the national debt. It looks as tkougb. the best thins that can be done is to foreclose, and if the aovernmeni does not want to cperate the roads, give them away. There is nothing to be gained by extension, nothing bat debt. If the debt doubled in twenty-five years it is safe to say. it will not only double, but now that its interest- earning capacity has been doubled, it will continue to grow, increasing in arithmetical progression, until at the. end of a hundred years it would amount to many billions of dollars, If some means could be provided for protecting the governrrent, for creat ing a sinking fund that would sink the debt instead of the government, extension of time would do, but this cannot be done. At least in the twenty-five years since the roads were completed it has not been done. and the sinking fund provided by the Thurman act does not do anything towards reducing the debt. As the roads are at present man aged, Huntington controls the Cen tral, and thus prevents opposition to the Southern Pacific. Foreclosure would at leist take' this game out of his hands and bring relief to the peo- tvIa trihnrarv trt flincA rrtods Tr. wonld give Huntington opposition, and that is something. Extension of time simply means presenting $60,000,000 to the gentleman with the sway-backed head, who presides over the destinies of the Southern and Central Pacific roads, and con sequently over those of the people of California. - Foreclosure ani sale is the only sensible remedy, for if the govern ment irets nothing?, it will at least be able to pay up, protect its loss, and make the most it can of a very bad bargain. . explain why gold does not come into this country in payment for its ex ports? Why money is loaned, New York money, in England at three per cent, while the farmers cannot get it for ten? .Why real estate in the shape of farm lands is no longer considered security for borrowed money? And bow the eastern capi talist expects a return of prosperity under these conditions, when forty- two per cent of our entire population cannot borrow a dollar on their prop erty? ASSIST THE FARMERS. INFORMATION WANTED. "Wlide the anthorities bn financial matters are airing their knowledge We spoke briefly yesterday of fin ancial matters, and it seems to us that upon the answering of the ques tions asked then depends, in a great measure, the prosperity of the country- That this is a great manufact uring country is freely admitted. but it is great because it has such an enormous home market for its manu factured articles. It has the home market because it is the greatest ag ricultural country on earth; because 42 per cent of its population creates wealth by tilling the soil. This . 42 per cent is the foundation upon which the prospeiity of the whole country depends, because if they prosper all the balance prosper; when they are pinched for money, every factory feels it at once, in the dead and glutted market for its wares. It is only by fostering the farmer that the balance cf the country can flour ish. Do we realize this or nttempt it? Look at the fanners and an swer. According to our great dailies, we are not receiving gold for our excess of exports, and this they say is the cause of our business depression. Is this true ? We think not. The true reason lies in the new theories of money-lenders ; it lies in the modern ideas as to what constitutes security for loans, and which gives a prefer ence to negotiaole paper, to bank stocks, railroad shares, bonds, etc., and ignores real estate. Time was when the broad acres of our grand domain, that produced the wealth of the country, that fed our people and sent fabulous stores to the hungry millions of Europe, were considered gilt-edged securities for loans. That time exitts no longer, and the money-lender prefers the low interest bearing securities, even of Europe, to the fertile acres of his own land. The farmer at times must borrow money, just as every other business man must do, but when he goes into the money market and offers a mile square of God-given earth as security for a loan, he can not get it without paying a high rate of interest and an exorbitant bonus. His business is thus loaded with a debt it, or any other business, cannot THE NEW YEAR. At midnight tonight the old year expires. ' Rheumatic of joint, wheezy of breath, grizzled ot beard, rheumy eyed, decrepit, and bent "with age, 1896, totters over the precipice and drops into the fathomless abyss of the past. He goes unregretted, for when we stop to consider the hopes he held out as he danced, naked and cherub-like, out of the elsewhere into toe now; hopes that he never ful filled wej drop a few tears of regret, and, moved by the spirit of hope, turn to his baby successor. It is useless to ponder over the things that . might have been, the blasted hopes, the . severed friend ships, the broken resolutions; and it is, perhaps, equally useless to exult in new hopes, cement new friendships or make new resolutions, for 1897 coming on apace, has the same win ning, open-faced fetnile, to beguile us to our hurt and woo us to our un- What matters it, after all, is only another milestone, on the journey. We have each wiggled in our little sphere, now scaring in the ether of the upper stratum, and anon groveling in the mire around the mudsills, yet of im portance only to ourselves. That we will alternately soar and fall in 1897 as we did during the reign of his ancestors, is beyond question. So, here's to' 18971 We trust him for a smoother pathway and an easier load ; but we trust him be cause we have to. May he treat us well, and the balance of ycu as well as he can, is the earnest hope of The j Chronicle editor. .TEACHING BIRDS. An Interesting- Operation That Requires Much Patience. , A SpeclaUy Constructed, Organ la Also . Necessary for. the Purpose Some . of tbe Airs Employed In . the Lessons. doing. for it passed M'CLVRE'S FOR JANUARY. We acknowledge the receipt of the advance sheets of McClure's tor Jan uary, it is probably the rotlenest number ever issued. Hamlin Gar land's maudlin stories about Grant are enough to make any one close the magazine in disgust, no matter how meritorious the other sketches mav be. Garland mumbles his an cient chestnuts with wearisome im becility. The balance of the articles have, perhaps, more truth, but are of about equal merit. Kipling, gen erally good, writes to fill space, and Charles Henry Hart writes without any reason therefor. It Won't Go. pay, and then the capitalist looks upon land as poor security. The remedy is simple. Instead of ending money in Europe at four per cent, let our capitalists advance money to farmers at, say, 6 per sent on long time. If this were done the further could meet his interest and pay off the principal. As it is the interest devours his substance, de stroys his hopes, his ambition and his manhood, It makes a slave of his wife and helots of his children; all struggling to make the farm pay more than enough to meet the in- interest, and struggling in vain. The argument may be advanced that the farmer should not go in debt. This is true; bat he cannot help himself oftentimes. Neither should business men go in debt, nor cities, counties, states nor governments ; but they do. Aud it may be added that if they had to pay ten per cent interest on their debts, not counting a repctend bonus, they would never get out of debt, nor would they pay the inter est The truth is, the farmers are charged a rate of interest no business can pay, and then they are told their lands are worthless as security, be cause they will not do the impossible. If our money-lenders will assist the farmer, the result will surprise them, because as he prospers and has money to satisfy the wants he now leaves unsatisfied, there will be such an era of rushing business as this country has never known. Our suggestion yesicrday that we would publish the list of marriageable young ladies, after New Years, has met with hearty response; eo hearty that we have dropped tbe idea like a hot potato, have written oar obituary and hang it up where it is handy, and now wait with that calmness born of despair, the worst. Our mail is overflowiug with protests, letters breathing war, pestilence, famine, vengeance, and all the ills of the seven vials of wrath of the Apocalypse. Of them we append a earn pie: The Dalles, Dec. 30. Editor Chronicle : I always thought you were a fool, bat never credited yoa with utter imbecility. Publish "rny name in that list, and prepare to meet We withhold the name, bat we assure the young lady that her name will not go on the list. Not even in the bargain- counter or clearance sale, for the fellow that gets her will get a prize that is not tongue-tied, and that can advertise itself. Here is another sample : The Dalles. Dec. 31, Editor Chronicle : I see by tbe last issue ot your valuable paper that you are contemplating the publishing of the names of the marriageable young ladies left over after this leap year. I sincere ly hope yoa will not do so. I should eo dislike to be taken to someone's manly heart with tbe suggestion always) in my mind that it was pity, and not love, that caused said someooe to select me. I am 26, fair, brown hair, gray eyes, of a tender and lovable disposition ; can play the piano and washboard with equal facility ; can broil a beefsteak or dance a waits, both in time and tone. That I am left over is probably my own fault. for I am painfully bashful, bat I assure yoa 1 nave a heart that sometimes tests the strength of my. Ahem ! corset steels. So I would not like to be classed with tbe left-overs. I have my eyes on sev eral young fellows, and I like them all awfully. I know if my affections ever center on one of them be wonld be hapDy forever. I therefore aek that voa do not publish my name, bat leave me to work, oat my own salvation in my own way. Realizing the goodness of heart pos sesbed by all editors, and in a remarka ble, I might say phenomenal degree by yourself, I am -Most Sincerely Yours, , Violet. Nay! Nay! Violet, your name ehah not go on the bargain counter. With all your varied accomplishments and gen tle disposition, you cannot be left long to blush unclaimed in the rosebud gar den of girls. Console yourself, and aiso all your lovely and lovable sisters ot The Dalles. We are not anguishing to die, and hence we quit. We publish thr above samples of the letters received to justify our conduct in letting go and tor square ourself with the boys. - Probably not one reader in 1,000 ever heard of . a "bird organ" or saw one. They are made only in France, and are imported to this country in small numbers, as dealers in mu sical boxes have few calls for them, and generally send for them only upon orders from customers. .They are made solely for teaching- tunes to tanaries and bullfinches. A wooden box about a foot square contains a larjje roller covered with pasteboard upon which bra-ss y.ins are ;ct accord ing" to the system used in preparing the rolls of music boxes. ISeiieath the roller is a small pair of bellows, and in the back of the box is set a row of ten metal pipes about the size of a long lead pencil. When the crank on the outside of the box is rapidly turned wind is forced into the pipes, as the valves open when the metal torque be longing to each is struck by a pin on the roller. The music . in therefore pro duced on the principle cf a .set of Tan's pipes, and is very shrill and high, yet sweet and full. V The ten notes produced by the ten pipes range from middle G in the staff to Ii, above, or an octave and three notes. That is, the bird music is written in the' octave used in the musical notation for the human, voice, but properly would be written in an octave higher when comparing the voice of a canary w ilh the voice of a soprano. However. the quality of the tor.C3 differ so great ly that the shrilf, clear pipe of the bird makes its voice sound us if it were pitched much higher than is really the case. - The "bird orgtin" is pitched in exact ly the same tone and key as the voice of the canary, or perhaps this is put ting the cart before the horse, for the bird strikes faultlesslv the key and tone of the pipes. It is more accurate to sav, after all, that on the hand the organs ore pitched to be with the ca- narv's voice, as the result of the ex perience of the builders, and, that the canary shows wonderful 'power of im itation in falling in with the tone qual ities of its teacher. If one note in th organ ia off thejiey in the slightest de gree tho bird takes the same tone, and if it onoc learns that note wrong it will always carry the blemish -in. the harmony. .Ml cf the airs ucod in these organs are written in the keys of G ine sharp, or iu C, aud ns they have only the range of ten notes, from (J to 1 !, it is very difficult to adapt many tunes to the limitations of canary music. There is a dealer ki music boxes on Riilge avenue who sells "bird organs" and writes music for the canary teach ers, lie hns u drawer nliect witli man uscript music which he has arranged for ut.e in these 'bird organs," and he also puts times to order on the rollers. He has bird oriracs which' pipa a reper toire of seven airs, with "Mulligan Guards." "Yankee Doodle," "A Dream of Love." L'jcv Gray." "Down Went MeGinty," aud "You Can't Tlay in My "Yard," all on one roller, "One tune' is nil that a man trie's to teach a i-amirr," lie raid, "and he will mvcr 1ft the bird hear more than that one. lie kee; the bird in n quiet room while he is teaching it and doesn't let it hear the voice of another bird. A ca nary's br:;in ia not very big. undhegets his musical memory tangled it he hears more than the same old tune. 1 have heard of birds that could whistle two airs, but these are very rare, and it is a risky undertaking. For when a bird is working on. the second tune he i3 likely to get mixed with the first, and then all your troubled gone for nothing. It's simply a ques tion of time and patience. You ve just got to play the tune on the organ as often as you get a chance; the more the better; you'll grind away lor two or three months, or longer, perhaps for six months. "If you have the luck to get a bright bird, he'll begin to notice the tune in three months. At first he'll sing two or th;ee bar3, then falter and start over again. When he has learned the air all the way through his voice is weak and uncertain, but it gets stronger and more confident all the time. ViTien he MOON BLINK. A Peculiar Blindness Caused by Sleeping in the Moonlight. Three cases of "mconblink" occurred on the British steamship Acanthus, which reached Philadelphia the other day. After the low-iying hills fringing the shores of Batavia faded from view oa the afternoon of July 14 for 80 days her crew of CO officers and seamen saw no land, sighted no vessel and encoun tered no storm. Among the crew are three seamen who, during the run across the Indian ocean, suffered terri bly from sudden blindness at night, the result of that strange disease of the eyes prevalent in the tropics, and known to sailors as "moonblink." One bright, moonlight night, while the Acanthus was steaming across the In dian ocean, one, of them finding his berth in the forecastle too uncomforta bly hot. went out and lay upon, the deck.- The moon was nearing her full and shone nlmost directly overhead. When the watch was changed at mid night he, was awakened and was horri fied to find himself blind. .At first the captain thought :hc mau might be shamming to avoid going on duty, but an investigation was made, and it was found that he could not se, cli-hcugh his eyes were wide open. The calamity vas at once diagnosed ns a case, of "moonblink," and the captain cau tioned his men against running such risks. When day began to break pight began to return, and by sunrise he could fee as' well as if nothing unusual had happened. A!l of that day the case formed the chief topic of conversation- and when night came two more men determined to test the effect of the moon. After a two hours' nap in the full glare of the moon both men were awakened totally blind. An order from the captain prevented any further ex perimenting in that line during the rest of the voyage. MANY STILL SPEAK GAELIC. fjORTHERN jj PACIFIC -RV n v :-v-"Y ""' H S Pullman Element Tourist TO ' Sleeping Cars Dining Cars Sleeping Car ' ST. fADt " " MINNBAPOLIH.' DCLVTH KAKGO OBAND FORKS CROOK STON WIKSIFKO HELENA and BUTTK Through Tickets CHICAGO WASHINGTON PHILADELPHIA MW YORK BOSTON AND ALL POINTS EAST and SOUTH in By No 'Mean an Extinct Language Spite of Its Position Here. A new appointment has been madt from Watcrfovd to tho chair cf profes sor of Gaelic in Mnynooth college, Ire land. The new appointee is a member af -the Gaelic league "of Dublin, and was the first editor of the Archaeolog ical Journal, cf Waterford. The opin ion is very general that Gaelic is an cxt inert, language, or one nearly ex tinet.and the labors of the Gaelic so ciety in Xw York to revive its use have lent some color to that opinion. Nevertheless, as figures show, the Gaelic tongue, is most tenacious, and, according to the last reports, is spoken, though not exclusively, by 1,000,000 persons in the British Isles 600,000 in Ireland, 330,000 in Wa,!es and 220,000 in Scotland. Though English is the official lan guage of all these countries, the pop ularit.y of Er.gl.-sh increases slowly de spite the disadvantage under which those who use Gaelic labor, that of hav i re no estabr.shed grammar and no recorrnitkn in an offk-ial way. Gaelic fulfills the colloquial requirements o the farmers -and fishermen in the coun ties rcmotte frcm 4he large cities, some what as the Basque language continue to be popular in the northern province; of Spain. In this country Gaelic has made little headway, though many patriotic Irish men have by various methods endeav ored to acquaint others less patriotic with its advantages. While the use of most European languages has about doubled in 75 years, five times as many jiersons spealc English as did in 1620. For Information, time cards, map and tickets, cal on or write to W. C. ALLAWAY. Agent, The Dalles, Oregon OS A. D. CHARLTON. Asst. G. P. A., 255, Morrison Cor. Third. Fortlaad Oregon EAST and SOUTH-- , The Shasta lioule OF THE ' Southern Pacific Comp'y. Trains leave and are due to arrive at Portland. BIG Japanese - ORDER FOR BEER. Merchants Surprised by the King of Core a. Japanese merchants of Chemulpo, in the kingdom of Corea, were very much surprfsed recently when the k.ng or dered 30,000 bottles of beer in one lot. savs the San Francisco Chronicle. The entire Japanese colony was not. pre. pared for such a sudden and extens-.ve order of beer and they put their heads tosiether. wonderintr whether it was the court, or the body guard of the king which had suddenly developed sueh a gigantic thirst.' A cable was immo diatedy dispatched to Japan and the beer ordered to be shipped at once, so that it might, be delivered to the royal master of the house in due time. The beer arrived promptly, and at. the same time the explanation of the conundrun was given to the Japanese,-for almost cn ithe same day a Russian man-of-war arrived therei and the entire crew was invited to be guests of the king of once picks it up your troubles are over 1 Corea, who thus showed his gratitude It s simply a matter of time, and prac- l to the Kussiaos for the shelter accord tioe then. It's all luck m getting a bright bird with a good ear, and the sweetest singer may turn out a failure as a trained soloist. Bullfinches arc eas ier to teach, but they are eo short-lived that the results are scarcely worth the trouble. A canary will keep his voice and memory for eight or ten years, and he makes the sweetest music in the world." The German's patience and love of music make him most successful in the training of canaries, and nearly all of the schooled songsters in Philadel phia have been educated by Germans. The man lias sold several at an average price of about $100. There are many curious industries in a great city, but none more unusual than the educating of canaries, and the adding to one's in come by selling "bird organs" and writ- ng music for these little soprano stars. The music furnished is very simple, and accidentals, grace, notes, runs and quavers are ruled out. But'the adapter has not an easy task with his imitation of .key and range, and earns all that he gains in this unique fashion. Occa sionally a customer calls for an air which the adapter discovers cannot be adapted to the vocal powers of the canary, and is obliged to find a satisfac tory substitute. "Home, Sweet Home" is one of the sweetest and easiest airs for rt canary to be taught, and once heard will linger always In the memory. Philadelphia Press. . ed him at the Russian embassy during the recent revolutionary disturbances. The 300 marines on board were very agreeably surprised when his royal highness sent 30,000 bottles of good Japanese beer on board that is, 100 bottles tier man enough liquor to thoroughly celebrate the Russo-Corean I alliance. . Seneca's MedaL . In the possession of the Red Jacket club of Canandaigua is a medal which. the members of the club believe, was given the tamous iseneca cniei Dy George Washington. Other folks have frequently questioned the authenticity of tiiis relic, much' to the indignation ot- the Canandaiguans, who assert that its claims to respect are beyond do.ubt. Medals almost exact duplicates of Red Jacket's, they admit, were presented to other Indians of note about the tame when Red Jacket received his, but this one is distinguished from oil the rest because on its reveree there) are -1 stars instead of 15, and remained in the hanCs of a single family from the time of the chiefs death until, it. became the property of its present owners. - -' A Mixed Verdict. A London jury the other day brought in the following decidedly mixed ver dict: "We find the prisoner not guilty, and that he admitted his guilt through ignorance, and we utrongly recommend him to mercy." . i 8:50 P.M 8:30 A. M Daily except Sunduys. 4:00 P.M. 7:30 A. M. t4:45 P.M. FROK JUNK 23, 1895. f OVERLAND EX- press, Salem, Rose-' I burg, Abhland, Sac-1 J ramento, Ogdi-n,San ! 1 Franciseo, Mojave, ( Los Angeles, El Paso, j f New Orleans ana I I East j Roseburg and way uta-Hons fVia Woodburn fori I MkAngel, Silverton, IWest Scio, Browns- ville.Springneld and I Natron J Salem and way stations; loorvauis ana way stations jMcMliinville and jway stations X, . , i, -J:10A. M. ' 4:40 P.M. except suiiHt-r.. I10;CT.M. t6:'jtfP.M. t 8:ffi f Daily. tDflJir, except Sunday. DINING CABS ON OGDEN EOUTE. PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS AND SECOND-CLASS SLEEPING CARS ' ' Attached to all Through Trains. Through Ticket Office, 134 Third street, where through tickers to all points 4n the Eastern StHtes, Canada and Europe can be obtained at lowest rates from J. B. KIRK LAND, Ticket Agent All above trains arrive at and deriart from Grand Central Station, Fifth and Irving street. YAMHILL DIVI8ION. Patsenger Depot, foot of Jeaerson street. Leave for' OSWEGO, week davs. at 8:00. 7:20. 10:15 a. m.; 12:15, 1:45, 5:25, 6:45, 8:05 p. m. (and 11:30 p. m. on Saturday only). Arrive at Portland at 7:10. 8:30. ll:-5 a. m.: 1:30.3:15.-.-35. 7:55, 9:10 p. m. , ay Leave for Sheridan, week davs. t 4:30 r -i. Arrive at Portland, 9:30 a. m. Leave for A1RLIE on Mondav. Wednc . Fri-iay at' 9:40 a. m. Arrive at Portia; 1 dav, Thursday and Saturday at 3:0o p. n Snndav trains for OSWEGO leave at 7:20. 8:40. 10:15a.m.: 12:15.1:45,3:30,5:25 6:45 p.m. Ar rive at Portland at 12:35, 8:30, 10:00 U;25 a. m.; i:w, s:u, a:io, 6:ao, 7:so p. m. - . B. KOEHLEB, E. P. BOGERfc, Manaser. Asst. G. F. & Pass. Art. MMSMHHssssaaBMri EMS GIVES THE Choice of Transcontinental Rrjies -VI A- Spokane Minneapolis St. Paxil Denver Omahv Kansas ui Low Rates to all Eastern Cities. OCEAN STEAMERS Leave Portland Xverr Five Days for. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. For full details call on O. & A Co. 8 Acent Ths Dalles, or address W, H. HURLBUBT, Gen. Pass. Agt. Portland, Oregon E. M'NEILL President and Manager. ' New Schedule. Train No. 1 arrives at The Dalles 4:46 a. m.. and leaves' 4 :oU a. in. . Train No. 2 arrives at The Dalles 10 :15 , in., and leaves 10 :20 p. m. -Train No. 8 arrives at The Dalles 1 1 :55 i m., and neat-bonnd train No. 7 leaves at 1 p. m. Train 23 and 24 will carry passengers between The Dalles and Umatilla, leav ing The Dalles at 1 p. m. daily and ar riving at The Dalles 1 p. m. daily, con necting with tram JNos. 8 and 7 from Portland. E. E. Lytlk, r Agent. SURE CURE for PILES Itahinsr ud Blind. RlM4ln a- Pmmi.. mi -1-1.4