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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 7. 1897.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
the rain and gloom. In the seraglio
the shaded lamps threw a soft light
over the rich oriental furnishings.
Scheherezade was seated on a divan,
!kB.Eincatd carelessly sending ' a delicate thread
..C. M. Idleman ,. . .... . . "-j :
IG. W. McBride lips, ana at lue same time uiamug
'J!! t.1,. froamnh vnnr into her hiffhlv-
uongressrnen iyn t Ellis I -
State Printer ..w.h. Leeds bred though somewhat retrousse,
nasal organ. ,'Haroun,' the mighty,
1 had crossed his nether limbs and was
resting the fullness of his biking suit
btatk Officials.
Sjrernor ..
Becretary of State , . .
Treasurer
f apt. of Pnblio Instruction.
Attorney-General
Senators
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Caunty Judge...... ..Robt Mays
BheriC T. J. Driver
mark A M. Kelsar
Treasurer... ........ ........ v;c-aI1.wliLps on his royal heels. . A chibouque,
ixraimissioners.... -jD u Kirasey
Assessor................. W. H. Whipple
Burreyor. ... ...J. B. uoit
Superintendent of Public Schools.. .C. L. Gilbert
Coroner w. H. Butts
THOUSAND AND SECOND TALE.
loaded with the fragrant tobacco of
Teheran, was in front of him, and he,
too, was turning a few pipes to his
idol.
livered two thousand shekels of gold
and silver, or currency of the realm
And their shekels enabled the family
to live, the children to attend the
schools and to learn the wisdom of
the ' Franks, and to grow up good
and intelligent citizens.'
"Wonderful!" said the " sultan
'Wonderfu', if truel" said the grand
vizier. ; '. ' " j - .
"And this brotherhood," Continued
Scheherezade, "was as a great tree
whose roots are in prolific soil, and
which spread its branches far and
wide, until it became famous through
out all the countries beyond the sea.
for its deeds of Charity . were as pur-
"Now then, Zade, old girl," said I pie blossoms, and mingled with them
he, "give us that story. And in or
der that mv subjects may have no
doubt but that I shall make the pun
ishment fit the crime, have the grand
vizier sent m. inis iuncnonary
being seated, and the nature of the
contest having been explained to
schehebezade's last,' that settled
THE SULTAN.
To the A. O. V. W.
"When Haroun Al Raschid, the most
glorious of- all the illustrious sultans
mentioned in the semi-sacred pags
fit t.h Zin-TTorfln r the erandest of all
the cajiphs, whose illustrious deeds him' Scheherezade blew out a cloud
- .. a .v i,:,. ? (k. M cigarette oim&.e iuai uav uu vu
Baedad Dublis museum and rendered culating through tie upper story of
immortal in tradition. When he. I her 8y8lem and balf reclining on the
cor nffai nni lliniiiiinil orwl nr.a fnn. ! diVftU, began '
secutive nights had fallen asleep as . "Once upon a time" "Chest
- Snheherezade told some new slorr of nuts!" said the sultan. "Rats! Break
love, drawn with' the vivid coloring away!" said the grand vizier. "Who'i
natural to the warm-blooded daush- telling this story, anyhow?" replied
ters of Araby the blest, and painted Scheherezade, and fixing the concen
in all the glowing imagery of the trated gaze of her two eyes on the
Orient. When he awoke on the G. V., she remarked: "You got in
moining of the 1002d day, there pretty cheap, keep a back seat
were deep circles of blue under each "Once upon a time," she began again
of his illustrious eyes, and his general "in a country the other side of the
appearance indicated that his royal salt sea, there lived a good man.
nibs was a-weary of life. The an- "Wonderful!" said the sultan
cient chronicles from which T s-lean "Strange, if true," said the grand
this tale say that he intimated to the I vizier. "Now, this good man," con
tale-teller, Scheherezade, that he de- tinued the story teller, "was the
sired a new bill. friend of the poor and the needy, and
"By may halidom !" he exclaimed, sympathized deeply with those whose
as he sat up in his couch and extend- daily toil but sufficed to meet the
ed one rich brown shank.over its side expenses of maintaining a family,
until his great toe tapped nervously This good man had observed that
the genuine Turkish rug, "I am a- when sickness came to such as these
wearv of love. .The winds from that the man being cut off from his
KaJiay, or the cyclones of Kansas, labors, either through being the vie
have toyed these many days with the tim, or from having to care for such
whiskers of those old stories. They member of his family as was sick,
need a barber; 'in fact, all the bar- soon became distressed financially,
bers of Bagdad who have played so "d in a little while became unable
amnortar.t narts in vnnr silly stories to supply the barest necessaries
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would be emnloved for a vear in re- of life. He had observed also
moving their chin-beards. They are that when one of these men
as stale as the casein of Limburg, and died, his life labors having been only
interminable as the life of Napoleon, sufficient to maintain his family,
Cease! we command thee, thy maud- nothing was laid by, and soon the
lin babblings of love ! Quit whisper- helpless widow- and little orphans
ing through your turban, and offend became dependent on their weak
no longer our auricular drum with efforts for their support, or were
the asinine inanities of love lorn thrown upon the charity of a too un
damsels and male mental jackassi charitable world,
with diseased brains, and hallucina- "His heart being moved by the con
tions ascribed to their hearts, but templalion of these sorrowful condi
arising from torpid livers. Give us lions, he sat himself to work to dis
a rest! or give us something new cover a remedy. He gathered his
It has been nearly three years now neighbors to the number of half
si nee I began neglecting my vow, dozen or more, and after calling their
and methinks it is time to order in attention to their helpless condition,
the bowstring. Bestir your stumps, he laid before them this plan: 'We
or by the Peffeiian beard of the are now all strong and well,' said
prophet I will give you the sack to this good man, 'let us therefore swear
some purpose ! I am tired of the eternal friendship. Let us be as one
comedy f affection and disgusted family, so that each in turn shall take
with the .farce of love. Trot us out the burthen from the shoulders of
some opera bouffe, so to speak, as it the wido ws and the orphans, and as
were, and bring on the ballet. Give we each contribute a trifle each
us something new." So saying he montn so long as we are in gooa
closed his illustrious and most mag- health, so shall it be that when our
nificent mouth with a snap, and not a time comes, each of those left shall
soft snap either. contribute a trifle in turn for us, and
As Scheherezade watched him with thus these many mites shall make a
her gazelle-like eyes, plunge first one goodly sum to maintain our children
mahogany-colored shank and then and our dear ones. The neighbors
another into theabysmal depths of talked the matter over, and they saw
his red-flannel bloomers, she realized that it was good, and they swore
that the old man was mad clean eternal friendship each to the other,
through. Scheherezade was an up- These friends told what they had
to-date gill, however, and had i proved done, to their friends in the next vil
that she was ontb her job. So she lage, and they likewise took the oath
turned on her pillow and before his of friendship and were admitted into
"serene highness" could recover his fellowship with the others.' And so
serenity, a gentle snore with . a cres- the news ran from village to village,
cendo movement, announced to him and from city to city throughout that
mat uie, iauy was airaia nenaer 01 1 vast lancy unui me numoer 01 mose
bis bluff nor a royal flush. who had taken the oath of friendship
An hnti 1nlA Ma tttt AnllnU Air. I ... Mn .nAr aaAa.a
A AJVrua. , 4sl 0 bUU VfAlLlj ValO" I TT OO H9 WU OOUUO DUC OCMUVICi .
guised in a-clean turban and new. "And so it came to pass that when
bloomers, was slumming in the white one of these friends was sick or in
chapel districts of Bagdad, Schebe- need, no matter where he was, he
rezade emerged from her boudoir, had but to make known by a sign
fresh as a daisy and calm as a coun- that he had taken the oath of friend
try courtship, "I'll do the old man up ship, and he was cared for by his
to the queen's taste, and that my own, brethren, for all they that bad taken
tonight," she murmured. . this oath were as one family. When
The shades of night bad again set- one" of these brethren died, the other
tied on Bagdad, the streets were dark, brethren buried him with due honors
for the contract . with the ' electric as one of their own household ; and
light company was "busted," and -they gathered the mites from the
only here and there the gleam ot a other brethren, and to his widow and
coal-oil lamp shed a ray of light in his children they brought and de-
were the red blooms of Hoie, and
all the breezes were laden with their
perfume. And the strong limbs were
emblematic of Protection.
But as the tree grew a tiny vine
started at its roots, and entwined
itself a'bout it. And lo! as the tree
was, so was the vine, for the brother
hood saw that their mothers, their
sisters, their wives and their daugh
ters were all benefitted, not only by
the care given ihera, but by acquaint
ance with the fraternity; and they,
tod, took the oath of friendship, and
behold in a short time the vine had
enwrapped the tree, giving to its
blossoms a background- of foliage, to
its sturdy strength grace, and to its
ruggedness beauty. And so through
out all the land the work of this one
good man spread, and for every
wounded heart there was a balm ; for
every sorrow, consolation; for every
need, aid; for every trouble, sym
pathy. -
"Allah is great !" said the sultan,
"and next to Mohamet is the just
man." "mere is neitner nappiness
nor misery on earth," said the grand
vizier, "but only comparison of con
ditions; and blessed indeed is that
.'and where the good and the ill of
every life is shared by all." So sajr
ing he salaamed profoundly to the
si ItaD, again to Scheherezade, and
withdrew to ponder on what he had
heard. As for the sultan, he mused
long and deeply, and saying "Schehe
rezade, if I thought that story were
true, I would bowstring you ere day-,
ight for not having put me in the
right way long ago. As it is, I yield
to your superb qualities as a prevari
cator, and spare vour life on condi
tion that you never again tell me a
tale."
Here, sayeth the ancient manu
script, the custom of talking the
sultan to sleep ended, and since
that time. Scheherezade and all her
descendants, and their name is legion,
have sought a wider field for their
talents, and have hired out to the
lecturebureaus.
THE FOREST RESERVE.
It is with pleasure we commend
the Oregonian's editorial printed be
low. We think it covers the case
and the entire case, and we indorse
the sentiments therein, because it ex
presses our own sentiments much
better and much stronger than we
could express them ourselves: s
"It is believed . that President
Cleveland's forestry orders will be
modified by President McKinley.
They ought to be. " The government
should take vigorous measures against
all timber depredatiors on public
lands. It should enforce regulations
against destruction of timber in the
mountain districts inaccessible to
settlement, because innumerable
streams find their sources in those
localities, and . destruction of timber
affects the steady flow of the streams,
making them torrents at one time
and greatly reducing their flow at
another. For the timber well up
toward the mountain tops there will
not for a long time be any demad ;
but it ought to be preserved, not
only for the reason that the effect of
its loss upon the streams would be
3reat, but for the further reason that
it ought to be kept against a time
when it will be needed for use, to be
cut under regulations th'at will per
mit its steady renewal, so that the
timber shall not be wasted nor the
mountain sides stripped bare.
In Oregon, at the present time,
and to an extent in adjoining states,
the chief interest in the subject lies
in the necessity of using for summer
pasturage large districts included
within these forest reserves. . It is
an absolute necessity to take the
stock from the arid regions east of
the Cascade mountains into these
woodlands, in the dry season of the
year. To shut the flocks out of these
summer pastures is virtuallyto .de
stroy a great and valuable husbandry,
It is a loss that Oregon coull not
afford. In this state of limited pro
duction, - sbeep and cattle are too
valuable a portion ot our available
resources to be sacrificed, even' in
part, to any theoretical or senti
mental idea. Pasturage on the re;
serves, under proper regulations
ought to be allowed.
"It is believed there is much less
danger of forest fires from the pres
ence of the flock man than from that
of the hunters, fishermen, mountain
climbers and mineral prospectors
who range through the mountains in
numerous parties every summer,
shift their camps almost every day
are proverbially careless with their
campfires, and certainly are quite as
likely as the shepherds to set out
fires 'for the fun of the thing.'
It is announced that President
McKinley- will give this subject his
attentive consideration. Means ought
to l)e taken by the people of Oregon
and Washington to give him com
plete and accurate information as to
the state of the case and the interests
involved. . It is especially incum
bent on our delegation in congress
to give the president a full and care
ful statement; and we are certain
that if the facts are made known to
him, there will be modification of the
order, within reasonable limits. 5 For
estry is a" very practical matter. It
can have no hard and fast rules for
all times and places, but should ad
just its measures to conditions and
circumstances. The timber of the
country, on the public lands, must
be preserved from destruction. ; But
practical judgment, not sentimental
ism, snouid preside over tne policy
employed for the purpose. .We have
large areas of mountainous wood
lands in . which ; permanent homes,
owing to the depth of snow in win
ter, are impossible. The timber on
these lands must not be destroyed.
But the lands should not be shut up
against their only practical use,
which, at this time, is that of summer
range for the arid regions."
BAKER CITY MINES.
A few days ago we expressed the
opinion that the era of gold mining
in the Northwest had only begun;
that the demand for gold as a money
metal bv all the nations of the earth
had given gold rrining an additional
impetus, and that the great golden
storehouse of the world was not
Africa, but Eastern Oregon and
Washington, Idaho and British Columbia.
J?ince writing that article we have'
visited Baker City, in this state, and
even a brief and cursoiy examina
tion of that section convinced us that
our predictions are not only true,
but that that particular section is to
be, in the near future, the greatest
mining camp in the world. The
mountains and hills surrounding
Baker City are ail . mineral bearing,
and the bedrock is . ribboned with
ledges of high grade ore. The open
ing of the Virtue mine after years of
idleness did much towards giving
mine-owners hope and encourage
ment, and in the past two years much
prospecting and development work
has been done, with results simply
astounding. ,
Standing at the depot a fiiend
boxed the compass for us with min
ing districts all showing high grade
ores, all witn mills and concentrators
going up, We have spent the larger
portion of our life in mining camps;
but never saar anything like the con
ditions at Baker City. At "Virginia
was the Comstock, at While Pine,
Austin, Aurora, Bodie, Pioche, Min
eral Hill, and the hundreds of other
Nevada mining camps, there was one
or two ledges only ; but Baker has
a dozen prosperous camps, Cracker
Creek, Robinsonville, Cornucopia,
Greenhorn, Sparta, and we .know
not how many other jewels, in her
crown. '
The proverb says, "Cows far off
wear long horns," and foi this reasqn
mining men have passed by Baker to
rush to Eossland, to Alaska, to Peace
river, anywhere so it was far away.
But this, has changed. Keen-sighted
mining men, experts such as Gilbert
E. Bailey, have had their attention
called to the Baker group of mines
and realized what a vast treasure
house the sage-covered hills are,
What struck us ; forcibly was the
manner in which men talked of
"huridred. dollar' free-milling ore
without batting an eye or seeming to
think they were mentioning.anything
remarkable. The beauty of it was.
top, that they had the ore and the
bricks to . show that t3eir stories
were true.
- We predict for Baker City the
coming summer, not a mining boom
but such a genuine mining develop
mens as will place her at the head
of all the gold mining camps of the
world. These be not idle words of
flattery for our sister town, but the
honest Conviction of one wh has
spent nearly thirty years in mining
camps, twenty or more of them in
mining pursuits.
AJAX AND AJAX TELAMON.
Mr. J. Thorburn Boss has returned to
Portland from Washington, where he
has been, In company with .Wallace
McCamant, for the express purpose of
telling the United States eenate its duty
in regard to seating Mr. Corbett. Mr,
Ross think.s Corbett will .be seated
principally on account of Mr. McCain
ant's brief, which put " the matter in
such a plain, forceful and clear light
that the senators one and all, individu
ally and collectively, were able to per
ceive what else bad been imperceptible.
This was eo ably done, Mr. Ross says,
that ex-Senator Edmunds, who, next to
McCamant, is the most profound consti
tutional lawyer in the United States,
shed tears of joy down Mac's shirt col
lar. . -
.When J. Thorburn Boss and Wallace
McCamant first reached Washington, so
the former Bay a, they "encountered a
very unkindly sentiment with regard to
seating Mr. Corbett." . But when Koss
turned his influence loose! and McCain
ant unveiled his brief, the sentiment
changed. Doubt fled shrieking back to
her gloomy caverns, and the clonds that
lowered over the Loose of Corbett, went
flying away like morning mists before
a Biscay gale. . .' .
It la welcome news that the right
man was found way cut here in Oregon
to throw light on this dark subject, to
illuminate the gloomy pathway where
the senetorial gaitara habitually peram
bulate, and to point out to the weary
senators the course, and the only course,
possible for them to pnrene. Had it not
been for Boss and McCamant, what
would the country have come to, any
how? The question might have been
settled without due process of law, or
under a mistaken conception of the
manner and means of the hold-up ; but
with the light of McCamant's intelligence
turned on in the full blaze of its incan
descent glory, the devious roads of the
political reptiles became as the flower-
bestrewn paths whereon a blushing
bride might walk with trusting feet.
Oregon ferninst the world!", and
Bully for McCamant!"
The sheepmen have again taken
up the proposition of sending a rep
resentative to Washington to press
the matter of opening the Cascade
reserve to pasturage of herds and
flocks. We had something to say m
that matter when Mr. Steele was
working it up, and we ha ye not
changed our opinion since. If the
senator and congressmen can do
nothing of what avail is a private
citizen? We know that our delega
tion will do all in its power to open
the reserve, and if they can do noth
ing, what can anyone else do? The
sheepmen are simply fooling away
their money in sending a representa
tive to Washington, and will do
more barm than good by doing so.
Two years ago B. J. Warren, a drug
gist at Pleasant Brook, N. Y., bougbt a
small supply of Chamberlain's . Cough
Remedy; He sums up the result as fol
lows : ' "At that time the goods were un
known in this section ; to-day Chamber
Iain's Congh Remedy is a household
word." It is the same in ; hundreds of
communities. Where ever the gooa
qualities of Chamberlain's Cough Bem
edy become known the people will have
otmng else, t or aaie oy. jsiaseiey,
Houghton.
At the Stubling Greenhouse you will
find strong, well-rooted geramumP
fuchsias, white and yellow marguerites
and heliotropes, from five cents 'Up.
Roses in bloom,-15 cents, or two for 25
cents; calla lilies in bloom, zo cents;
pansies 25 per dozen. Appropriate
floral deeigns furnished on short notice.
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LAST HONORS TO JENNISON.
Funeral of the Superintendent of Con
struction of tne Western Union
: Company.
'The funeral of Henry E. Jennison,
superintendent of construction of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
who lost his life through gas in a tnnnel
in Colorado last Friday, was held from
All Saint's church to Forest Lawn ceme
tery yesterday afternoon, Eector Mac
Kay officiating. ' '
, The church waa crowded with the
friends from all parts of the west. The
casket was all but concealed beneath an
avalanche ' of flowers, in designs and
bouquets.
A large number of telegraph and rail
way officials from different parts of the
territory, over which . Jennison had
jurisdiction, attended the funeral. Many
others sent beautiful floral tributes.
Among . those present from abroad
were: G. M. Hohl, superintendent of
the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council
Bluffs railway and L T. Dyer, superin
tendent of telegraph of the same road,
St. Joseph, Mo. ; Rodney Smith, man
ager Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, from the same city, also F. W.'
Mackey, manager Missouri and Kansas
Telephone Company, St. Joseph; C. W.
McDaniel, superintendent. of the Miss
ouri & Kansas Telephone;. Company,
Kansas Dity ; W. C. Burrows, manager
Western. Uniin Telegraph Company,
and wife, Leavenworth, Kas, ; George E.
Law ton, night chief operator Western
Union Telegraph Company, ' Denver;
William Butler and J. L. Reynolds,
Western Union Telegraph. Company, '
Denver; A. Duffy of the Union Pacific,
Cheyenne; Charles A. Simons, general
foreman of the Union Pacific; B. J.
Armstrong of the- Union Pacific; C. E.
'Sates, superintendent of Telegraph
Burlington & Missouri railway, Lincoln ;
E. A. Hutchison, manager of Western-
Union Telegraph Company, Lincoln ;
A. M. Dickey, Western . Union Tele-
graph - Company, Lincoln ; G. W.
Stamsel, Union Pacific at Grand Island;
W. Pierce, Union Pacific -at Valley,
Neb. ; J. T. Callahan, Union Pacific
railway, Schuyler, Neb. ; T. C.Howard
of St. Joseph. i
The pall bearers were L. H. Korty,
superintendent of telegraph. Union Pa
cific railway ; W. P. McFarland, super
intendent of telegraph of the .Fremont,
Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railway ; C. .
B. Horton, assistant : superintendent,
and W. W. Umsted, manager of the
Western Union Telegraph, Company;
E. D. Parker,, assistant superintendent
of construction, Western Union Tele
graph Company, and C. W. Moore of
Superintendent Dickey's office.
The funeral obsequies were beautiful
and impressive. -Mrs. G. W. Johnson
sang "Nearer My God to Thee," accom
panied by Miss Josephine Thatcher on
the organ. .' ,
Bev. T. J. MacKay spoke tenderly and
feelingly of the dead man, paying a high
tribute to his exemplary- character and
personal worth. He said the profusion
of floral tributes testified to the esteem
in which Mr. Jennison was. held in this
city, where vhe waa well known and
loved by all of his acquaintances..
We have lost a brave and gallant
comrade of life's battle.' be said, "and
wish that all men would strive to emu
late the. example of this noble man who
sacrificed his own life at the post of
duty, leading the men . under his com
mand to perform a dangerous duty
rather than driving them and shielding
himself."
When Mrs. Johnson sang "Jnst as
am Without One Plea," the beautiful
casket was borne down the aisle, away
to Forest Lawn cemetery, where all that
was mortal of Henry E. Jennison was
consigned to the tomb. Omaha World's
Herald.
access of Woman's KnfranchlsemeDt In
New Zealand.
1
It is now four years Bince the electoral
franchise was granted to all women
twenty-one years of age by act of the
local parliament; and, as the parlia
ments in New Zealand last for three
years, there have been two' general elec
tions in which the women's vote
been a most important factor. It
only lust to note that there are no
Bymptoms of public regret at the ste
thus taken, nor are there, bo tar, any in
dications of the change having alter
in other respects the ordinary usages o
society. On the other hand, it is imi
portant to observe that the' change was
no new idea in New Zealand. It was
not the result of female, agitation, eithe:
through the press or on the platform
There were no "Women's Eights'
leagues organized ; nor-was any publij
attempt made to denounce the selfish
ness of men, or to magnify the virtue!
and intellectual Dowers of women. T4
the persons -who have put tbemselve
forward in positions of prominence
the :"Women'8 Bights" movements
America and Great Britain the attitudf
of the women of New Zealand woul
ndonbtedly have - Eeemed slow an
supine to an extraordinary aegreti
They held no meetings;- they sent rJ
petitions ; they published no letters d
pamphlets either to denounce men
to praise women, what they did wa
to take advantage of every opportunitf
that was given them of taking part
the management of public affairs, and
showing an active and intelligent i
terest in public questions. Hon. Hud
H. Lusk, in the April Forum.