C20
THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1897.
The Weekly Chf oniele
NOTICB.
.CSF" All eastern foreign advertisers are
referred to our representative, axr. a.
Katz, 230-234 Temple Court, New York
(Jity. Eastern advertising must oe coo
traded through him.-
BTATK OFFICIALS.
SVjvernoi. . W. P.- Lord
iiwnun of State H B Kincaid
Treasurer ' . .Phillip Met-chan
apt. of Public .Instruction.
.G. M. Irwin
Aiiornej-oenerai
Bens ton......,'
. C. M. Idleman
Q. W. Mi-Bride
I J. H. Mitchell
IB . Hermann
Congressmen..
State Printer.,
Jw. K-Ellla
....W.H.Leeds
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge. r. Robt Mays
BhetiSL , T. J. Driver
Clerks . A M. Kelsay
Treasurer - v. rmiiips
Commissioner! in. H. Kimsey
Assessor W. H. Whipple
Bnryeyor S;mT
Superintendent of Publio Schools. . .C. L. Gilbert
Coroner W. H. Butts
TWO OF A . KINV.
Yesterday George lurner was
elected senator from Washington
and Dubois was defeated fur re
election in Idaho. Idaho is put one
term ahead of Washington in this
respect Dubois and Turner are of
the same class. Each came to the
coast with a federal appointment in
his pocket. Each had been a carpet
bag politician in the South, appointed
to office there at the close of the war,
and each had, pall enough to get an
appointment on the coast when they
realized that the reconstruction of the
South would noc let them ride into
office. Dubois was appointed United
States marshal for Idaho; Turner
one of the territorial judges of Wash
ington.. Each is dark skinned, black
eyed and and black haired ; Dubois
looking like a Spaniard, Turner much
like a negro. Each traded off what
little political principles they had for
the sake of ' office, and each got a
United States senatorship.
The Populists of Washington dealt
themselves a body blow when they,
the great reformers, picked up this
political shyster. Turner, and gave
him their indorsement. Better for
them had they followed the lead of
their brethren in Idaho. They elect
ed a farmer, Henry Heitfeld, a man
of little education and small abilities,
but presumably honest, and a Popu
list from conviction, not from a de
sire to get office.
When the Populist party takes up
such political mountebanks as Turner,
the honest men who have looked to
that party for a purification of the
political pool, with either return to
their first political' love, or, failing in
that, take through the woods.
THE BIG PAPERS.
It is surprising to note the differ
ence in the style of the newspapers of
today from that of a few years ago,
The papers have grown steadily
larger, until the limit has certainly
been reached in thai direction, and
the next change will perhaps be in
the line of a decrease rather than
further increase. The editorial style
is also different. Instead of the
long dissertation on any given sub
ject, one or more "paragraphs" are
used, and the long-winded arguments
are left to the magazines. The boil
ing down of editorials is undoubtedly
a good thing, and could it be fol-
reading matter, it would be a further
improvement. Instead, however,
what is saved in editorial expression
is more than counter balanced by the
minute detail of scandal and. crime.
The Nicaragua canal is disposed of
in a ten-line paragraph, and the com
ing fight between a couple of prize
fighters takes two columns. It is so
in all other lines, and the bie dailies
have taken to padding out their dis
patches until it takes a reader hours
to wade through what could be put
in shape to be absorbed in ten or
twenty minutes.
ii tne ioud bill would go further
and raise the price of postage on
newspapers, it might not be alto
gether bad. If it served to reduce
the size of the blanket sheets, it
would benefit the reading public,
and curtail the expenses of the postal
department
The situation at Salem is taking a
slight turn for the better. The indi
cations are now that one of two
things will happen. Either the Ben
son house and a mjority of the sen
ate will meet and elect a senator
Tuesday, or the hold-outs will come
in Monday, the present organization
of the house-will be set aside and a
full house organized. The Berson
men have intimated that they will
not object to this arrangement, and
it is possible that it may be made.
If it is not, it is quite certain that
the first DroDosition will be tried- It
depends somewhat on whether Carter
or Brownell recover, sufficiently to
take their places in the senate. If
they do, there will be a clean major
ity in the senate in favor of recogni
tion of the house, and the program
suggested will be carried out
RAILROAD EARNINGS PER MILE.
A tabulation of the gross earnings
for1896 reported by 205 railroa'ds,
shows a total for the twelve months
of $924,350,000 a gain of about
three millions over the preceding
year. . "
The slightly increased mileage re
ported for 1896 by these roads
makes the earnings per mile about
the same for the two years, but last
year shows a considerable increase in
the average per mile over 1894. In
that year the average gros3 receipts
per mile shown by the reports of 194
roads was $5,732. Last year the
average1" was within a fraction of
$6,000.
The question of how much profit
ought to come oat of such receipts
is forced by their very magnitude.
The figures are certainly large
When the public is paying $6,000
for operating the average mile of
railroad track in the average year, it
is all the traffic ought to be expected
to bear. -
The profits from such gioss re.
ceipts should be large, as undonbt
edly they would be it it were
not for the school of financiers who
would rather wreck a railroad for
the profits on its ''reorganization
than manage it for the returns on its
fair and legitimate business.
The 'place to take the true meas
u re of a man is not the forum or the
field, the market place or the arren
corner; but at his own fireside
There he lays aside his mask and you
may judge whether he's imp or angel,
king or cur, hero or humbug. I care
not what the world says about him
whether it crowns him with bays or
pelts him with bad eggs; I never
care what his reputation or religion
may be. If his babies dread- his
home-coming and his better half
swallows her heart every time she
has to ask him for a five dollar bill,
he's a fraud of the first water, even
though he prays night and morn till
he's black in the face, and howls hal
lelujah till he shakes the eternal hills,
But if his children rush to the front
gate to greet him and love s own
sunshine illumines the face of his
wife when she hears his footfall, you
may take it Tor granted be a true
gold, for his home's a heaven, and
the humbug never gets that near the
great white throne of God. Brann's
Iconoclast
One-half the time of the legisla
tive session has "been fooled away,
and only eighteen days reman of the
forty. Of course the legislature may
yet organize, and hold .thirty-five
days from that date. The members
can draw pay for that length of time.
But then the question comes up as
to whether the senate will stand it
That'body has been in session twenty
two days; it can only draw pay for
eighteen more. Now if the legisla
ture should organize today, the house
could draw pay for thirty-five days,
while the senate could only be paid
for eighteen. Neither house can ad
journ without the other, hence the
senate would have to sit out 'its time;
but it might yet get even by refus
ing to . pass any bills. Then comes
another proposition. The senate is
duly and legally organized. Under
the constitution it cannot adiourn
finally without the consent, of the
house, and as there is np house, the
query is, can it adjourn at.all ?
The senatorial muddles in so many
states emphasize . the necessity of
electing our senators by popular vote.
Under the piesent system legislation
is held up, and at least half the time
through political manipulation the
man the people want is set aside, and
the man they do not want is elected.
There is no more reason for electing
senator by the legislature than
there would be for electing all our
state officers the same. way. The
people are abundantly able to elect
their own senators, and the quicker
the change is made the better. Now
everything else is set aside, "while at
an expense of thousands of dollars a
dav, the legislature . wrangles over
the election ot a senator, whom the
people would be,, and are, better
qualified to elect.
CONCERNING BONDS.
It is estimated that twenty billions
of dollars worth of bonds have been
issued- iu the past thirty years by
municipalities and corporations in the
United States. Wehave state bonds,
county bonds, city bonds, school
bonds, bonds for railroads and canals.
bonis for deepening our rivers, for
building sewers, for furnishing water
and light; bonds for hospitals, bonds
for everything under the sun, and
some things in total darkness. Every
city, town and hamlet has a bonded
indebtedness of some kind, and still
our printing presses rattle merrily on,
grinding out bonds for posterity to
pay. We are mortgaging the future ;
have mortgaged it now beyond re
demption. "
What matters It? Posterity will
have the debts to meet. Why worry
about - that? Posterity never did
anything for us, and we owe it noth
ing. Let the good work go on ; let
the debt increase, ever faster and
faster. Add interest to principal
and compound the dodgasted felony
until the whole country rises up, and
there is a revolution whose battle cry
will be "Repudiation." Money must
have some chance to be invested ; it
must cam interest. The promise to
pay of a whole community is better
security for a loan than the promise
of any .individual member of that
community. Capital is not going to
risk the latter when it canget-tbet
former. Why then handicap capital ?
When a debt is already created it is
of coi rse good business policy to
fund it at a lower rate of interest;
but to create new debt on bonds is
folly. There is only one thing that
can justify it, and kthat is where the
debt is created for educational pur
poses. There posterity gets all the
benefit, and can afford to pay. In
deed, it is on'y right that they should.
But whv should they be asked to pay
for those things of wnieh we get the
benefit? . . .'
It is time to call a halt. It is time
to commence the practice of the
most rigid economy that the bonds
may be met and retired. It will
take the country many years to gdt
out of debt; but until we do we can
have no national prosperit'. Free
silver will not bring it; free trade
will not bring it; nor will anything
else. We are mortgaged to our ut
most limit . ,
We talk of the national debt of a
billion dollars. Why, my friend, it
is a pitiful sum. We pay an amount
equal tc it every year in interest
we raise a great cry about having a
deficit of fifty millions a year. It
isn't spending moner, it isn't' ci.rar
money, it isn t enough for a boot
black bill. What is fifty millions?
Millions 'don't count; nothing less
than billions goes. We are a great
country ; we are an energetic, thrifty,
pushing, go-ahead people, the bosses
of the universe and the salt of crea
tion. We count money by billions;
our unit of statement is a thousand
millions, and we owe twenty of them.
That's al! right, posterity will have
it to pay. . Let's make it lively for
it while we are at h, and give
it plenty. Let's make it forty
billions. Paper is cheap, So is print
ing; and posteiity isn't here to look
out for itself. If it doesn't want to
be saddled" with a debt larger than
it can wiggle with, why isn't it here
to look after its interests? We're
looking after ours. If it doesn't
want to be a collective gang of meas
ly bond slaves, why isn't it on hand
to object? Who does it belong to,
anyhow ? It don't belong to us ; we
haven't strings on it, and if it don't
like the way we treated it, what is
it going - to do about it ?. That's
what we'd like to know. To h 1
with posterity, anyhow. If it don't
like our style, let it lump it; let it
take it out on our grave-stones, and
refuse to pay the bonds we issued to
pay for 'em. It can write our epi
taphs, but what do we care. ' We'll
all be ' dead, and if they kick we'll
haunt 'em. So will our bonds
They won't die; they'll be loafirg
around ready for business, and forci
ble reminders to said posterity that
its progenitors were alive once; that
their ancestors were onto their job
with a great big J:'
Posterity will not forget us!. No
indeed ! It will lift . its shackled
hands to the free skies, the only free
thing. we will leave it; and-as it
gazes into the depths of the infinite
vault of heaven, it will, with stream
ing eyes regret our deaths. It will
be sorry that we are beyond its
reach. '
But that won't affect the bonds
they will be with .them. Like the
country newspaper, they "are here to
stay." The semi-annual installments
of interest will come around every
day, every night. Our children and
our children's children will not forget
us never. They will use our names
as a 'boogey" to frighten their child
en with, and if they could realize
what we have done for them, it
would scare them to, death. Our an
cestors sowed the wind; we have
reaped the whirlwind. But we have
taken it out of their .great-grand
cnnaren. vve nave sowed tne cy
clone. What will the harvest be?
There will be an end; but what?
May it please the court, there is
no answer.
It goesJby default .
Senator Michell's bill for a portage
road from this point to Celilo ought
to pass. It will save Easicrn Oregon
hundreds of thousands of dollars
while the boat railway is being con
structed ;. and more than that, it will
prove an important factor in causing
i he development of the resources of
that part ot the state east of the Cascades-
The money will all come
back to the state, and it can be con
sidered only a loan.
There was quite a flurry in the
wheat maiket. at San Francisco-yesterday,
prices tumbling rapidly; but
they soon recovered and reached a
point almost equal to opening prices,
It was entirely.a speculative fluctua
tion market, crop reports naving
nothing to do with it. . The crop re
ports from the southern hemisphere
show a shortage and render certain
the continuation of good prices for
the coming crop of this country.
Our exchanges from Eastern Orei
gon do not seem to be very active in
urgjng the construction of a" portage
road around the CeUlo rapids. It
would prove of inestimable benefit
to the country east of us, and one
would think would "get strong in
dorsement from the localpapers.
PoHtics . re getting decidedly
mixed. . The. Populists of Idaho have
elected a Democrat to the United
States senate, and those of' Washing
ton have elected a free-silver Repub
lican or anything else-to-get-office
man, to a like position. .
The Oregonian says that Mitchell
is dead, but is a man of wonderful
vitality and unlimited resources. A
dead man with wonderful vitality is
certainly deserving of a place in the
senate. Most of the other senators
are just plain, every day dead men.
MITCHELL GOT 29 IN THE HOUSE
Senate, by m Vote of 16 to 14, Refuse to
y Vote for Senator.
A special to The Chronicle, received
at 2 :40, says : "
House took a ballot for senator at
noon. Thirty members were present
Twenty-nine votes were cast lor Mitch
ell, and one for George ffcl. Williams.
The senate, by a vote of 16 to 14, refused
to vote for senator. This was a vote on
appeal 'from the decision of -the chair
deciding a motion that "the senate pro-,
ceed to ballot for a United States sena
tor," as out of order. . 1 .
Forestry Lecture!
Mr, M. L. Jones, depaty grand chief
ranger, and organizer for Oregon- foT the
society of Foresters, will deliver a free
lecture under the aapices of Court The
Dalles, No. 12, at K. of P. hall Friday
night next. The lecture will be illus
trated by stereopticon views, and will
conclude with a humorous description of
"A tour of the world." The order of
Foresters is said to. be next to the Ma
sons, the oldest in the world, being es
tablished in 1720.
. . Ward, Kerns k Robertson have the
largest stock of timothy, wheat and
wild hay kept in the city,' for sale.
Call and see it. jan25 2w
RENOUNCE CHRISTMAS.
Mohammedans, Brahmins and Bnddhlsts
. . Deny the Holiness of Christ.
There are millions upon millions of
people in the world who will not cele
brate Christmas, and there are other
millions to whom Christmas is objec
tionable, says the New York Herald.
Take the followers of MoJiammed,
for instance. They aire .divided into
40 or 50 different sects, among: which
are the Nousay-rie-yeh. There are
about 50,000 of them, and they believe
in transmigration of the soul. They
believe that men's souls pass after
deatih into the bodies of animals. For
them the story of the birth and life
of Christ has no charms.
;Then there are the Druses, who pro
fess to have knowledge that God has
visited tjhe world 234 times, but they
do not believe in Christ. ' For them
Christmas has no significance. .
It is equally disregarded by Bud
dhists, Japanese, Chinese, Brahmins
and llohaanmedams. "There is no God
but Allah," says the -Mohammedans,
"and Mohammed is Hia prophet." Mo
hammed's fololwers also have curious
notions in regard 4o the fate of the un
believers' children. Some believe that
these children act as the servants of
the faithful in Paradise, and Moham
med is recorded as saying on one oc
casion to his wife:"
"If thou desirest I can make thee
hear tiheir cries in hades."
Other Mohammedan authorities,
however, dissent from this view, and
one of them boldly says: "I know that
Allah will not torment those who have
not committed any sin."
DRAW HIM OUT.
The Finest Art of Flirtation
Is Adapta-
b.lity.
The finest art of flirtation is adapta
bility, says Lippinoott's. I do not mean
altogether to mold one's self after the
mind or mood of the object of one's
solicitude, but as rapidly as possible to
discover the broad lines of his or her
character and disposition, then, with
the courage of a military leader, turn
the force of our friend, the enemy, in
that channel which , may best please
one s own intelligence and purjose,
With a little executive ability, and, in
case the object be a man, just a tinge
of judicious flattery, this can be accom
plished. Sometimes, of course, we run
our heads against a stone wall; then
sometliing must go, and it is generally
not the wall. This is as fat filing u
process m the mental faculties as
standing on tiptoe is to the muscles
of the foot; but the mental exercise,
like the athletic, has its advantages.
The rider of one hobby has generally
another in training, if not in actual
use; and the man who cannot make
himself interesting " on either of the
subjects- that most absorb his own in
terests is not worth one's solicitude.
and therefore proves nothing. "Sup
pressedstupidities avail themselves of
extraordinary opportunities to come to
light," says Heine. But there are few
people in the world, except those who
by undue garrulousness give an un
necessarily emphasized illustration of
imbecility, and will not, if taken in the
right spirit and treated with a certain
indulgence, . prove entertaining . from
one standpoint or .another.
HE FOOLED THE "BARKER.1
Supposed easterner Only Wanted to Light
His Pipe.
"Overcoats, halts, suits, boots and
shoes at half price best in town lit
you or treat you more goods for less
money whole stock must be . Step
right in, sir. Overcoat, sir? Steprignt
in.
The barker in front of a State street
clothing house was earning his money,
and he knew it, says the Chicago Post.
The customer he had caught was tall
and thin and only tolerably well clad.
A new overcoat was especially needed.
He looked along the line displayed,
took note of prices, and at last seemed
over-persuaded by the barker and
turned in at the entering of the door.
The barker watched him, tossing aft
er him scraps of guaranty and frag
ments of recommendation. The shabby,
thin man had been "worked off the
street," and was at" last clearly witlhin
the door. There he took, a filled pipe
from (his left-hand pocket, amatch from
his right-hand pocket, and stand
ing where the recess and the dressed
dummies, protected him from the wind,
lighted his pipe, buttoned -his frayed
overcoat and passed on.
Overcoats,- hats,' 'suits, boots -dad-
bing him, he fooled me and shoes at
half price best in town," resumed the
barker, and looked for' fresh victims.
A legend of Lombard?.
An old Lombard legend tells the story
of a chieftain who- asked the hand of a
neighbor's daughteriljjjn. its being
refused him he declared war,"killed the
chief' who had declined the honor of be
ing his father-in-law, and married the
girl after all. Not satisfiedwith this
much, he had the skull of his wife's fa
ther mounted in gold as a drinking cup,
and one day, while under the influence
of wine, ordered bis spouse to appear
before the assembled guests at -his
houSe and drink to his health out of the
horrible bowl. She did so, but . ever
after was her husband's secret but most
deadly enemy. She joined in a con
Rpiracy which eventually resulted in the
king her husband's assassination. , '
Save Tour Grain.
Few realize that each squirrel de
stroys $1.50 worth of grain antra any.
Wakelee'8 Sauirrel and CxopBer .exterm
inator is the most effective and econom
ical poison known. Price reduced to 30
cents, "i For sale by M. Zr Donnell,
Agent. ' febl-3m
Cash in Tour Checks.
All county warrants registered prior
to July 12, 1892, will be; paid at my
office. Interest ceases ; after- Dec. 5,
1896. C. L. Phillips,
" County Treasurer.-
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Queen Victoria frequently examines
her wilL It is engrossed on vellum,
quarto size, and is beautifully bound.
While digging near a blasted ree,
on his farm, in Beech Grove, Tex., Samp
son Gilder found an iron pot which
contained $5,550 in gold.
The taxable wealth of the negro
population in the United States is over
$300,000,000. There are 23,462 negro
church bodies, 'with church property
valued at over $20,620,448. There are
over 1,000 college-trained ministers and
2,677,977 church communicants. The
census shows that there are nearly
4,000,000 communicants.
The gas engine, which in Europe
has now supplanted the steam engine
for moderate power, is being used in
France for ships. A new gasboat on
the Havre-Konen-Paris line is 100 feet
long, with seven feet draught, and at-tains-a
speed of seven knots. The gas
is stored in steel tubes under a pres
sure of S5 atmospheres. The engine is
a two-cylinder one and is of 40 horse
power. . .
Only 000 persons in 1,000,000, accord
ing to medical authority, die from old
age, -while 1,200 succumb to gout, 18,
400 to measles, 2,700 to apoplexy, 7,000
to erysipelas, 7,500 to consumption, 48,-
000 to scarlet fever, 25,000 to whooping
cough, 30,000 to typhoid and typhus and
7,000 to rheumatism. The averages vary
according to locality, but these ore con
sidered accurate as regards the popula
tion of the globe as a whole. ' .
There are some horses working in
cities which have never been seen to
lie down in their lives. They continue
to work for years, and always sleep
standing; but their rest is said to be
incomplete, and their joints and sin
ews stiffen. Young horses from the
country are liable to refuse to lie down
when first placed in a stable in town,
and the habit may become, confirmed
unless special pains are taken to pre
vent it.' " '
JIM WAS UNGRATEFUL,
Sheriff Had Grown Tired of Giving; Him
Too Much Froedom.
I was sitting with the sheriff in front
of the town courthouse, when he sud
denly stood up, shaded his eyes with
his hand and looked across the street
and then called out:
"Heah, yo' I Is that yo. Jim ?" -
A colored man, about 50 years old,
who was slouching along the other side,
came across' the street and replied:
"Yes, Mara Eenfog, dis anrme."
"And what ar' yo' doing heah?"
"I'ze jiSit walkin' out, sah. I dun
thought I'd drap down and see my dar-u
ter."
"How did you get out?" .
"Jist made a hole through the back
wall, sah."
"Look-a-heah, Jim," said the sheriff,
as he sat down and picked up a stick
to whittle on, ."I ain't gwine to stand
this fussin' no mo'. This is nigb. about
seven times you's broke out o' jail..: :
"Yes, sah, nigh 'bout seben times,
sah, but don't be hard on me."
"You's got out by the doah, the win
dows, the floor, the ceiling and the
walls, and you's put me to trouble
and the county to expense. Now, yb'
can'f go back thar' no mo'." -
."Please, sah!"
"No, sah, yo' can't do it. I've given
j o' a fair show and yo' can't expect no
mo'. Yo' can jist take yourself off."
"But, Mars Kenfog, I'ze dun bin put
in jail on a hog case, an Ize got to stay .
dar tiH de cotehouse meets!" protested -the
man. -
. "I know yon were arrested and ex
r mined and bound over and ell that, '
but I'm tired of the fussing. I ain't
going to stand by and let nobody dam
age the jail. Yo's ryb out and come
back and now I won't abide It "no mo'.
Jist take yo'self oft and don't, come
backtio my jail again unless you want .
to be hard used. If I find yo' breakin.'
in I'll' shoot yo shore's yo' bo'n."
"Won't yo' try me jist once mo'?" -pleaded
the prisoner. . ,.
"No, sah! rmftfitieLline and
now yo's has got to "go an uke keer:,
of yo'self. I'm tdllin' yo tolbeSESW be- .
fo I make yo turn in and stop up that
last hole in the wall." '
The man "scattered" in a discour
aged, dejected way, and as he was lost
to sight down the street the sheriff
growled:
"Dura a fellow who don't know when
he's being used like a bo'n gentleman."
Detroit Free Press.
Broiled Partridge oa Toast.
Partridge broiled makes a delightful
course at a luncheon served on delicate
squares of. toast bread. After prepar-
ingr the bird with great nicety, divide
and flatten it with a meat bat, dip in
melted butter, and broil over a clear
fire. Serve with mushrooms prepared
as follows: Take a pint of mushrooms
and pare them neatly, removing the
stalks; as they arCpared drop into wa
ter, to which has been added some
lemon juice to preserve their color.
When all are prepared take them from
the water, dram well, and put tnem
into a saucepan with three ounces of
fresh butter, white pepper and salt to.
taste and the juice of half a lemon.
Cover them closely and simmer for 20
minutes; then sift in a dessertspoonful
of flour; and a very little cream- about
four tablespoonfuls will be sutticienit;
add a little grated nutmeg, and serve -hot,
garnished with parsley. Ladies' ..
Home Journal. " ?
mj aangnter, wnen recovering iruui
an attactc ot lever, was a great sunerer;,j
from pain in the back and bips,' rtfie8' 'yv;
Louden Grover, of Sardis, Ky. ;V '"r ; Jj
out any Deneni sne mea one ootua. 'J4r.vrv
given entire relief." Chamterlain'jr .
rain naim is bibo & certain uurciui i uc-
matism. SolcTby Blakeley & Hougbtdri..