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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1897. The Weekly Ctoniele. N9TICB. All eastern foreign advertisers are referred to oar representative. Mr. fc. Katx, 230-234 Temple Coort, Kew York City. Eastern advertising mast be con tracted through blm. 8TATB OFFICIALS. aavernoi W. P. Lord Secretary of State H R Kincald Treasurer ..Phillip Metschan lopLol PubUc Instruction. .......G. M. Irwin Attorney-General C. M. IdJeman - . . IG. W. McBride v - J. H. Mitchell i- i IB Hermann -"'""-"' -- JW. K. EUia Uto Printer W. H. Leeds - COTJXTY OFFICIALS. County Judge. Root. Mays Baeriii.. .T. J. Driver ....A M. Kelsar ...C. I Phillips ia. s. Blowers ID. rt. Kimaey Assessor W. H. Whipple Burreror : J. B. ;oit Superintendent of Public Schools. . .C. h. Gilbert Croner W. H. Butts Clerk Treasurer Commissioner. CONTROL OF THE SENATE. It might be well for the Kepubli can contingent which refuses to or ganize the legislature to consfder caret oily what the result will be, and to realize ' to what extent they are playiDg into the hands of the Popu lists and , Democrats. If a Republi can senator is elected from Oregon, the Republicans will have exactly one-half the senate, and with the ice-president, who only votes in case pf a tie, they will have control , of that body. If no senator is elect ed from Oregon, the combination opposed to Republican iieas will have one majority. No tariff legis lation . can be enacted, and the Re publican party will be powerless to - carry out its theories. The majority of the legislature want Mitchell, and certainly a large majority of the people want him The only question in the election of a senator is, shall the majority select the man for the position, or shall it permit the minority to do so? Oregon, after one of the hardest fought politica.' battles it ever ex perienced, was carried for Republi can principles by a bare majority of 2,000. The fruits of that victory are abont to be snatched from the party by a few boss-ruled Republi cans. It is not only the interests of the state that are being jeopardized, but those of the nation. If the legisla ture adjourns without electing United States senator, the party will not have control of the upper bouse tive of annoyance is the communica tions. A newsy letter from any lo cality, or - a well-written and not too long argument on some proposition, even though ii is contrary to the editor's opinions, is always accepta ble, and is gladly given space. The trouble is that so many with real, or fancied grievances, want to air them in the newspapers, and most of the time at the editor's expense. One half ' of such communications are anonymous, and the other half request the editor not to give away the names, of the writers. If such communications are printed, the poor devil of an editor is immediately jumped on, and if they are not, the virtuous writers get indignant call the paper a truckling prejudiced affair, and the editor a fool. If he printed one-half the stuff he rejects he would be in the jail half the time and the hospital the other half, urr less, indeed, he presided at a funeral. 'The only thing to be done is the thing he does shove the sorehead communications into the waste bask et, and take the chances. SLIGHTLY SPECTACULAR. a of congress, and the blame for the state of affairs must rest entirely on Joe Simon and the small Republican contingent of the Oregon legislature thut he controls. The Oregonian and Simon are willing to ruin the party, state and national, in their insane desire to down Mitchell, and by the assistance of a few traitors, they seem to be in a fair way to ac complish that purpose. A JUDICIAL FEAT. The hanging of Duestrow at St. Louis yesterday is, or was, in many respects a very strange affair. It is not at all surprising that a cold blooded murderer should be hanged for his crime, but it is something entirely new under the sun that a man with millions behind him should suffer the death penalty in this coun try. When one thinks of the com bination necessary to bring about this result, it becomes more and more astonishing. - With unlimited money he had the best of legal talent, and An.-. U M t t with bull dog pertinacity. The power ofmoney was brought in to assist the power of skill and of intel ligence. . To accomplish the punish ment of tie murderer required a'jury of twelve men, none of whom could be influenced by money or sophistry. It required a judge of unimpeachable integrity. ' It required a supreme court that recognized the fact that the possession of wealth was not an excuse for crime, Vand a, governor who had 'the courage to enforce the law. against rich and poor alike.' ' -Missouri is. a great state, and with all her greatness she can point with pride to -her judiciary, her governor and her people as being the only combination in America that ever hanged a millionaire. THE EDITOR'S LOT. The lot of the editor of a country newspapers is anything but a happy ne.The one feature most produc- An article on our local page gives an account of the killing of two cats by the Rev. W. L. Laufman in the pulpit of his church, the killing bein done to illustrate the effect of to bacco. The cats were poisoned with nicotine. We may be, and perhaps are, a trine old -fashioned, but strikes us that the killing of inoffen sive animals in the pulpits oi our churches is slightly out" of place. The same preacher advertised that on the next Sunday he would have the stomach ot a drunkard on exhi bition to illustrate the effects of al cohol on the human system: It might be better if the force ot the lesson were increased -by removing the stomach from the drunkard in the presence of the congregation. This might be a little tough on the drunkard, but it would be a splendid illustration for the congregation. The article in, question says "the church was packed." There might be quite a sermon preached on the above text, but it seems to us the text needs no elaborating. perhaps the most persistently stuck to lie in that paper's vast repertoire Ii knows the Benson house has done everything in its power to . organize the house, and it knows that it (the Oreronian ; has done all it can to prevent organization. - It will be a relief to those who, in order to get the associated press dis patches, are compelled to buy the Oregonian, when the legislature ad journs. The Oregonian, by its per sistent lying concerning the legislative hold-up, bos lost what little respect the people bad for it, and those who, at one time, had faith in its state ments, will believe it do more. It has indorsed the action of Joe Simon and his little coterie of .traitors, and bas assisted in depriving the Repub lican party of the majority iu the United States senate, to which it is entitled. It has done this to satisfy the spleen of .its editor. Only that THE PARTY DOWNED. THEY SHOULD MARRY. The New York Sun is raising the question, "Should old bachelors marry?" Certainly they should, and the sooner the better. The best thing in the world to any man of soul is a good wife. A man can scarcely be said to begin to live un til he bas loved and married. Life in old age is full of dreariness in some upper room of a boarding bouse. It is no use saying ''mar riage is a lottery." There are mill ions of good women in the land wait ing to make homes of comfort and peace and happiness for the millions of bachelors who are hesitating. There are good reasons why men and many women do not marry, and they are valid. But that does not change the fact that there are multitudes of single people who have no such rea sons, who would do well to marry. Chicago Inter-Ocean. We clipped the above from the Ei gene Guard, owned and edited by Ira L. Campbell, erstwhile an intense bachelor, but who about ten days ago slipped his head into the matri monial halter. Under the circum stances the statement should be given additional weight, for Campbell, when he indorsed the sentiment, spoke by card. There can no longer be any excuse for some of our bachelors continuing: lives of single loneliness. NOT APT. The Oregonian today says: It is a severe labor for Oregon to be delivered of Mitchell and Mitch eilism. But the state must take the pains of the deliverance. Tbey will soon be over. The period of the gestation of this infamy has been thirty years. The final delivery is not to be effected, of course, without rueful throes. But the state is now to be delivered, at last. The Oregonian's illustration is not happy , one. Suppose the state is delivered of Mitchell, will it be in better condition with Joe Simon, the Oregonian, Jonathan Bourne and thirteen Populists in his place. What pangs shall accompany the delivery ol that litter? The Oregonian today says "the Benson house will do nothing to bring about organization." This is Today completes the forty since the " legislature of . Oregon met at Salem, but not at the capitol. At midnight the forty days' expire, and there is considerable speculation as to what will be done. The joint convention will meet at upon as usual, and probably adjourn, over until evening. Then if no election of senator is possible, the Benson house will adjourn permanently, and the senate will of course have to fol low suit. This will end the farce, and will leave the Uuited States senate in the control of those opposed to Republi can ideas. It i3 doubtful if any tariff measure can be passed, and the Republican party, instead of having control of nil branches of the govern ment, will be saddled with a senate opposed to them. It seems hard that the fruits of a national victory must be snatched from the parly to gratify the spleen of the Otegonian, the avarice of joe Simon, and the ambition of Jonathan Bourne; but that is what will be accomplished by failure to elect a Republican senator. The situation requires no extended comment. It speaks for itself. The national Republican party has been downed at the dictation ot these three Multnomah county . puritans. It's a very small object to produce so grand results, but history only re peats itself. It is well known that a pig caused the adoption of the fed eral constitution, for if a New Jersey pig had not escaped from its pen and caused its ownet to miss voting, a delegate opposed to the constitution would 'have been elected, and New Jersey would have voted against the constitution : and the hog was not as well known 'as the Portland drove either. structionists in, the house will pass a resolution declaring their seats va cant, and then proceed in joint con vention to cast their vote for senator. Mitchell will receive a majority of all votes so cast, and - will then trans fer the fight to Washington. At midnight, or as soon as the joint convention adjourns, the Benson bouse will adjourn; and thus will end the session. " Greece bas set . an . example the larger governments of Europe might follow with profit to themselves and benefit to mankind. Little Greece dared to defy the sultan and . de fending the people of her religions faith, helped herself to the island of Crete. The powers would perhaps follow her example if each were not afraid the others would get the largest slice of the Turkey. , Greece has, helped herself, and has shown the balance of the would that it was a very every task to teach the Turk a lesson- '.'". One of Edison's best points is that his inventions come up to his first annouueement of them. The incan descent lamp cost him a world of trouble, but he stack to it until he gave it commercial standing in the world. He states now that he has found a crystal that in connection with, the X ray will disclose to the eye of the surgeon the most delicate tissues of the interior of the body. It is safe to say that all he expects will be realized from his new discov ery. - . - Two remarkable things are noted in the dispatches yesterday. One was the successful occupation of the island of Crete by Greek troops, and the tacit approval of the powers. The other was the hanging of Dues trow, the young millionaire who two years ago murdered Ins wife and child in St. Louis. FOOTBALL AND BLOOMERS. J "Otis Patterson " is ' back from Salem," says the Heppner Gazette. "From his general appearance, they didn't do a thing to him down there. He complains that the climate is bad and the water worse." We can un derstand that Otis is familiar with the Salem climate; but who the dickens told him about the water? A Tacoma lawyer named Thomas sued for $10,000 for defamation of character, and received judgment for $500. There is really no telling what will happen when a state goes Populist. . The President's Dally Itoutine. A NEW BOAT. While tbe nations of the world have been spending fabulous sums in building immense war vessels, an American inventor has been perfect ing a torpedo boat that bids fair to revolutionize naval warfare. It is known as the Holland torpedo boat, the first of the type being about to be launched at Baltimore. : It is claimed that it will be able to remain under water for three days at a time without inconvenience. . It is 85 feet long, cigar shaped, and costs $150,- 000. Its armament consists of five torpedoes, each 1 1 feet long, and it has a speed when submerged of eight D'iles an ,hour. It works anywhere from the 'surface tothe depth'of fif y feet, and could, of ' course, go under the largest war . vessel, attach torpe does to her bottom, and blow her. up without her preseuce being suspected. This would tend to give a' pleasing uncertainty to life on shipboard, and would, in fact, render the present costly battleships useless. " If the boat is a success, America will, for the second time, revolution ize naval warfare.- The immigration restriction bill, that in nowise restricts, has been passed by congress, and only awaits the signature of the president to be come a. law. The only thing on earth it will accomplish is to furnish place for a few more clerks in the customs department. What, the legislature will do be tween now and midnight it, of course, all guess work. It is probable, though, that failing to get the ob- Ex-President Harriscn -has written of "A Day With the President -at His Desk" for tbe March Ladies Home Jour nal. Tfie article is eaid to be singularly interesting in the detail with which it describes the wearisome routine of the president. ' It is eaid that General Har rison,, in this article, has delivered him self with great directness and vigor, rel ative to the annoyances that are visited npon a chief executive by persistent office-seekers, and he -suggests a unique plan by which' the president's, burdens in that directions could be greatly light ened, and he be enabled to devote more attention to more important matters.' A feature of the article that will have a timely interest to those ambitions to serve tbe country under the incoming administration, describes very fully how the president makes appointments to office. "A Day With the President at His Desk" is unique in being the first time that tbe daily life of the president has been described by one who filled the exalted office. Articles npon the social and domestic life of the president by General Harrieon will follow in success ive issues of the Journal. College Girls Upset Vermont Propriety. Shocked the Tillage. One after another. the staid old New England institution have fallen into innocuous desuetude, and now a Ver mont female seminary has been in vaded by the bloomer and the football St. Johnsbur' '' Vt, ia eminently re- s nee table. .' . - - So it was that the statement that a member of the seminary's contingent had looked seriously upon bloomers and that talk of a football club had really been heard created the same sort of an atmosphere about the town that tbe finding- of an old witch did in the old days of Salem. It was all true, how ever, both the statement and the look, What ia more, a lootioau team wa promptly organized and all of the mem bers wore bloomers. Even worse than that, the new organization actually se lected a plot of laid back of the Fair banks mansion to practice upon. Here was absolute defiance of all ths social and community ethics that could be compiled in the bluest book that ever St. Johnsbury heard of. It was positively- awful. It was almost as bad as. if somebody had said that Boston was not classic or that the university at Burlington was incapable of giving a student, the .very highest education. Gossip grew rife and the football girls laughed at it. They were not old fogies, they said. They knew a thing' or two and were not at all ashamed of it. As for the harm in blooniers, where was it? And as to the football and kicks, why, there . was nothing - indelicate about that. One of the girls whose lather lives over at Barre said that just before she came to the school her father told her she was the hardest kicker he had ever heard of. Why, then, "should they complain of her kicking a foot ball?, This was the burden of the song of. the football girls. There was no song among the townspeople, however; only lamentations and dire forebodings. Despite all this, the girls have, con tinued to play ball in the Fairbanks lot, and, so far as reported, not a single window in the rear portion of the man sion that ta the home of the grand panjandrum of St. Johnsbury society has been broken, for the girls are all pretty and they don't kick their foot ball in the direction of aristocracy's josshouse. Thus it is that the bloomer, the foot ball and the female seminary form a triumvirate which makes tne average Vermonter stand aghast. Knowing all f his, there can be realized in a small de gree the heroism displayed by the girls who kicked the football around the Fairbanks lot. They formed a regular eleven, and, of course,' m a very deli cate way, they, fought over the ball in regulation fashion. ; They play football at v assar and the sport is not unknown at Wellesley and Smith, but none of them can kick that ball an v better than the St. Johnsbury girls. X. Y. Herald MOTHERS! M0TSERS1! 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They TINY Are LITTLE BRAINS. the There have appeared in the : eolnmes of this paper for several years the adver tisements of Ely's Cream Balm, . re medy for catarrh, cold in the bead, and Hay Fever. It is with much pleasure that we can call the particular attention of our readers to the tact that this ar ticle stands very high among remedies, and particularly high as a catarrh medi cine. . Ely Brothers, were are informed, have bad long experience as druggists and pharmacists, and a remedy coming from such a source should have the con'. fidence of those desiring a reliable pre paration. One fact that should inspire confidence of their "catarrh cure (Ely's Cream Balm). is 'that they are willing to have it put to test, and ' in order that every one may try it they are ' now of fering a generous trial size through the druggists, or will mail It on receipt of 10 cents. The full' size is 50 cents, per package. Ton need not hesitate to send to them tor the remedy. Their address is 66 Warren street, New York City. ; - D alien-ftloro Stage Leaves tbe Umatilla house 8 a. m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdaye. UOUGLAB AZXXX, rop. Scattered Throughout Human Body. Dr. William A. Hammond, the cele brated neurologist, says the ganglia, which runs like little threads of silk throughout the body, are tiny little brains, largely made up of the same kind of gray matter that composes the thinking- part of the brain.' While the sensitive ganglia send their little tend rils into every portion of the body. there is an especially large amount of them .about the heart, and, really, according to Dr. Hammond, the human heart' actually thinks on account of it. When we are frightened, the heart almost stops beating. How could it do it, unless it really thought? It would be impossible. The heart brains are the little gray ganglia, end they recognize the emo tions of joy, or pain or fright by sending quick throbs and thrills, through the heart, which Dr. Haanmond calls a sec ondary brain. It is well known that the ancients believed ' differentorgans. of the body to be possessed of mental at tributes, and this idea, has been handed down to us in such expressions as a "brave heart," a "ncble heart," a "sple netic nature," and the like. . Crossgrained people are said to hove their spleens out of order, and the an cients located anger, -resentment and impatience in the spleen. An immense amount of gray matter or tissue runs back of the stomach, and a heavy blow there will kill as quickly as if the brain itself had been struck. Wherever the ganglia congregate is a. vital spot, and) instead of thinking' solely with the gray matter that is with in .our skulls, w think in every im portant orgata and throughout every prominent function within our bodies. So says Dr. Hammond, and science seems to agree with him. N. Y. Trib une. . Nest of Clock Springs. In the Museum of Natural History at Soleure, in Switzerland,' there is a bird's nest made entirely of steel. There are a number of clock-making shops . at Soleure, and in the yards of these there are often found lying disused or broken springs of clocks. One day a clock maker noticed in a tree in his yard a bird's nest of peculiar appearance. Ex amining it, he found that a pair of wag tails had built a nest entirely of clock springs. It was more than four inches neross.-and perfectly comfortable' for the birds; After the feathered, archi tects had reared their brood, the nest was taken to the museum, wh"re it is preserved as a striking illustration of the skill of birds in turning their sur ioundings to advantage in -building their nests. The Presidential Family to Have Greater Conveniences. The residence of the president of the United States ought to be worthy of tbe office. The present white'house is equal to all the requirements of such a residence, so far as it goes.- It is it . simple and dignified building, whose beauty is a -constant delight to appre ciative persons. It was conceived and carried out by the architect who planned it in the proper spirit, but it is l.ot large enough for the uses to which it is necessarily put. The country and the city of Washington have grown, and the president a house have not grown with them- A large part of it is given up to the business offices of the presi dent, his private secretary, and his clerks, and the, president's family aire deprived of the use of another, large part of the lower floor of the house be cause it is necessarily on public view most of the time. The family'is there fore cramped for proper accommo dations, and there arfi no rooms for the entertainment of guests. Moreover, the house is so badly arranged as to ' entrances, exits, and hallways that a ' state reception there is always an 'un comfortable and dangerous jam, while many oil invited guest, and many fu- cers who attend certain functions under orders, have been made seriously ill be cause they have been compelled to stand for hours in cold or stormy weath er until they could gain admittance through, the single door that can be , used for the purpose. The deficiencies of the white house are so thoroughly recognized in Wash ington that for -many years efforts have been making to secure worth ier accommodations for the president. Some of these efforts have been in the wrong direction, because they have cdntemplated other buildings, foreign . to the intent and character of the white house, within the same grounds. Other efforts still are attempts of speculators 1 to move the site of the mansion to the hills north of the city. The white house, with all its charms and memories, should be preserved, and it should remain on its present beau- . tiful and historic site, its fine grounds uuencumberd by other structures. . In furtherance of this idea, a plan pre pared by Mr. Arthur J. Dillon shows conclusively that the white house can be made, not only abundantly spacious. but even improved, while its architec tural features will be at the same time preserved. Harper's Weekly. FROZEN MUTTON. The White Feather. , The story runs that, during a war be tween the backwoods settlers of North America, and the natives, a Quaker feasted the enemy and placed a white feather over the door of his house as a sign of amity. The token was re spected. Hence the phrase: "Showing the white feather," which has come to mean cowardice. Preparation of the New Zealand Product for the Market. The . reason why Argentine mutton generally is pf inferior price to that of New Zealand has a three-fold explana tion. In the first place New Zealand possesses to-day a mutton-producing . breed superior to that known in -the Plate. In the second, the New Zealand eir feeds his stock during the winter time with extra forage, while in the Ar gentine the sheep are allowed to graze upon the same bare pampa during .the dead season.' The lesult of thisisfthat the New Zealander produces an even, well-grown carcass, while there is sent home from the Plate one upon whiohav : hasty covering -of fat has been put du- ', mg the spring months of the year. . J.he . difference between the two carcasses will readily be noted by anyone who pays a visit to the cattle market. Ihirrl- ly, the freezer in New Zealand freezes the mutton oh account oi the breeder; . J and'in the Aia-ntine the freezer" buys . from the breeder. "The disadvantage of the latter system, so longas the breeder has no knowledge of the requirements., of the market, is apparent. The Nesc Zealand breeder selects -his ' wethers " with care, rejecting any which will give an inferior weight, or which are -in--sufficiently fattened for the . butcher. . He remits them in-small droves! tb:the freezing establishments,, 'and ; takes '; " every care that they shall arrive in pef feet order.- The AI9iPe-$iederQU., '. the other hand, make.a c"pnrtfit with '.' ! the representative of thejrii;sell a given, number; and 'theTatt'.tonds .',1 rimself to remove themwit&S"certara date. N. Y. Ledger. 4 - ';.Jt -. " : : i '