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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY. JULY 10. 1897.
The Weekly Chroniele
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Count Judge............... Bobt Hay
Sheriff. . T. J. Driver
Clerk A M. Kelsay
Treasurer j. Ij. runups
r J A- o- Blower.
D. 8. KImsev
Annwr i W. H. Whipple
Surveyor J. B. 4oit
Superintendent of Public School. . .C. L. Gilbert
Coroner w. H. Butts
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Secretary of State
Treasurer
apt. of Public Instruction.
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Congressmen..
State Printer..
W. P. Lord
H RKincaid
-Phillip Metschan
u. M. lrwin
CM. Idleman
(G. W. McBride
- JJ.-H. Mitchell
B Hermann
JW. B. Ellis
.. ....W.H.Leeds
Weekly Clubbing Bates.
Chronicle and Oregonian '. ..$2 25
Chronicle and Examiner. 2 25
Chronicle and Tribune 1 75
Cnrunicle and N. Y. World 2 00
CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTH
Mr. H. W. Scott, of the . Oregoni
an, has recently traveled through the
South, and the editorial columns of
his paper are now reflecting what he
saw in this favored land. A recent
article is as follows :
"It is a fact that in our southern
states, or most of them, there is
6teady, quiet and general prosperity
that does not exist in the North. It
does not show itself in feverish en
ergy, but is apparent in the easy and
settled movements of industry and
mercantile life. It has its basis in
the moderation and contentment of
the people, working in the many and
grea't natural resources of the South
ern states. Mr. E. St. John, a well
known railroad man, now of Ports
mouth, Ya., vice-president of the
Atlantic Seaboard Line, in a talk
published in the Oregonian one day
last week, dwelt upon the fact that
our southern slates are much less
affected by the depression of business
and indnstry than the states of the
North: that there have been no seri
ous business reverses in the South,
' and that the conditions of an order-
' ly and growing prosperity are in
operation there, uninterrupted by
the bard times of which there has
been so much complaint in most of
the northern states."
A local in this issue notes the effect
of a "giant" that got loose. It is al
most impossible for the mind to
realize the tremendous force ot a
body of water shot from a nozzle.
With 900 feet pressure, equal to
about 400. pounds to the square inch,
the sti iking force of a stream of
water is simply astounding; big
bowlders weighing tons can be rolled
around os easily as a kitten rolls a
ball of yarn. At Grass Valley, Cal
ifornia, several years ago a giant got
loose and the stream tore the side
out of one of the miners, just as a
cannon, ball would. In Washoe val
ley the water pipes running from
Marlette lake to Virginia City burst.
The pressure was something more
than 1600 feet, and before the water
could be shut off at the head it came
near washing the valley away.
charitable purposes. Among the
beneficiaries may be mentioned wid
ows, aged men and aged women
hospitals, free public libraries and
benevolent fraternities and societies.
Whatever may be said about the
methods of obtaining it, there has
never been a time in the history of
the world when so large a propor
tion of the accumulated wealth' of
the rich went - finally into the hands
of the" noor as now. Eeligionsln-
stitutions may not receive as much
as in former ages, but - charitable in
stitutions get a gret deal more.
SHADES AND GRADES.
A
Mrs. Bradbury is repentant
week ago she was seeing the world
through a telescope held for her by
a Mr. Ward, and evertything seemed
large, attractive, beautiful. Today
she has put her optics to the big end
of the glass and the view is different,
She thinks now she was hypnotized
Possibly she was. So was Psyche to
her undoing; so Cleopatra; so C res-
sid; so Io; so Phryne; so the innum
erable throng of lesser beauties who
have tuned their waxen ears to vi
brate responsive to the voices of the
flatterers.
Paradise was Ioct because Eve was
not deaf; Troy fell because Helen
turned not her head away from Paris;
Egypt put the snake to her arm after
first letting its venom strike her
brainj "Good Queen Bess" had her
Raleigh ; Anna of Austria her Buck
ingham ; Mary of Scotland lost both
heart and head on Rizzio's account.
But why prolong the list? Elizabeth
may be hypnotized; Peggy is simply
betrayed ; Mrs. Bradbury, with a hus
band worth a million dollars, isSven
gallied; Mrs. Somebodyelse, whose
husband hasn't $500, makes a fool ot
herself. There are grades and shades
of evil that in these modern days
needs, demands the services "cf an
expert in nomenclature. The pecca-
iello of the mistress is the crime of
the maid; the inebriety of the mas
ter the pain drunk of the servant;
the hilarity of the young blood with
com, the vice of the other young
fellow without it.
What is hypnotism ? The deaden
ing of some of the faculties, the ac
centuating of others. That was what
happened to Mrs. Bradbury, but it
is what happened a hundred thous
and times since Paradise, will hap
pen again and yet again. and again,
as the woild exists.- So it matters
not much whether it is called hypnot
ism or some other term.
traffic in India an increase during
the j ear of 713 s miles. The great
centers of what early in the century
was designated as heathendom Mad
ras,' Calcutta, Delhi,' Lahore, Pesha
war' and Bombay are united by a
vast railway sybtem, feeders of which
extend to the hills and tap " the most
productive sections of the empire.
Traffic is the greatest of missionary
agencies, and by bringing the remote
parts of the earth in touch with each
other, it lessens distinctions of belief
and nullifies the effect of its differ
ences.
have something to waste its surplus
energy on, we suggest that it take a
shy at the turbaned Turk. There is
a chap with a chip on his shoulder as
big as a Bryan dollar, and he is ach
ing to have someone touch it, too.
SOME OBSERVATIOSS.
Armor DeCosmos is dead, passing
in his checks July 5th at Victoria.
He crossed the plains in 1858, pack
ing the name of John Smith with
him. In California he had his name
changed by the legislature to the
broad and suggestiye title "A lover
of the world." It is said that he
made the longest speech on record,
talking against time as a member of
the British Columbia legislature, and
(if we remember correctly) speaking
for twenty-four hours. He made
the legislature tired ; but he won his
point.
The New York Journal of Com
merce has recently shown from the
reports of the United States mint
that between 1873 and 1896 there
has been an increase in the world's
supply of money as follows: Silver
coin, $2,498,000,000; gold coin, $1,
'580,000,000, and the Journal alleges
that this "is the most stupendous in
flation of metallic money in the his
tory of currency." We will wager
that in spite of this "stupendous in
flation" the Journal of Commerce is
not overburdened with "metallic
money." East Oregonian. '
John E. Curtis, living 'in Deering,
Me., a town few people outside of
the state of Maine ever beard of, ac
cumulated a fortune of $2,000,000,
nearly all of which he bequeathed to
Tuesday evening at Portland Gov
ernor Lord made the presentation
speech, and with a wave of the hand
esignating the punch bowl and other
vessels that comprised the silver ser
vice for the battleship Oregon, he
got rid of the white elephant in a
graceful and happy manner. His
speech will not go echoing through
the halls of time as a model for fu
ture ages to emulate, but as long as
he succeeded in getting rid of the
silver set, nobody is going to criti
cise too harshly his speech. Where
the dickens he resurrected all the
platitudes is of course a profound
mystery. Gazing at his classic coun
tenance one could hardly believe that
he had found them by himself, but
he may have done so. The rivers
ramifying the state, the harbors filled
with ships and things, caught the
good governor's fancy, and the pretty
words that expressed nothing trickled
over his under lip like maple syrup
out of a hot can. Oregon feels just
ly proud of her governor. She rec
ognizes his peculiar fitness for almost
anything, and if' any of opr neigh
boring stales have anything they de
sire to have given away, cheerfully
and. freely commends him for the job,
It is constantly argued and per
petually asserted by priests and par
sons that the world's progress is in
the main due to the highly civilized
influences of Christianity, and while
this may be so, the revelations made
plain by the Victorian jubilee cele
bration do not Lelp to sustain the
asserted arguments. It will be re
membered that about 400 warships,
principally English, took part in the
celebration. Queen Victoria is com
monly hailed as a most Christian-like
ruler over a most decidedly Christian
people. The divine inception of
Christianity finds its source of origin
in the teachings of the "Prince of
Peace." It was he who advocated
and was the greatest exponent of
peace that the world has ever seen,
and according .to his teachings, war
ships and gujjs and munitions of war
are indicative ot brutality and unre-
generalcd sin. But be that as it
may, to me it is quite plain that there
is a vast difference between the teach
ings or the "Frince of eace and
the applied hypocrisy of individuals
and nations time are masquerading
under this cloak of goodness, theo
retically and otherwise. It is true,
however, as fact can make it that
about 400 warships did participate in
the jubilee, and thereby hangs this
interesting puzzle: If it took 1897
years of Christian civilization to
bring about the formidable ' array of
aggressiveness witnessed In this jubi
lee, what may he expected at the
end of another 1897 years?
. Let the. priests and parsons ponder
over this part of the queen's jubi
lee program and see if they can find
anything that is in the least edifying
to themselves or consistent with the
doctrines taught by the "Prinze of
Peace." Tomahawk.
Miss Constance Mackenzie, who is
said to be "a prominent educator,"
wis married at Philadelphia July 1st
to John S, Durham, a Negro.. . If the
act is the sequence to her . ideas of
education, the country is to be con
gratulated that she now quits educat
ing other people's children, and can
confine her attention to swatting
little black pickaninny or two of her
own. . In the segregation of the
races alone lies their power to main
tain themselves. A Negro should
have too much pride to marry a
white woman who would consent to
marry him.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
asks itself if this is "an age of small
men," and concludes that while there
is an abundance of great men, the
ablest and best men are, as a rule,
engaged in industrials, commercial
development, . either directly or as
the advisers of those employed, or in
science or education. "Our great
men," says the Courier-Journal, "are
employed in dominating the powers
of nature, exploring the fields of
science, extending the arts of peace,
or educating the young, while small
men wrangle and riot in our halls of
legislation."
CHEAP BICYCLES.
Nashville has a curiosity in the
shape of a baby, a colored baby
three weeks old, who talks like sixty
and reasons like a Webster. The baby
commenced talking when only.
week old, and has kept at it steadily
when not nursing. It is a girl baby
of course.
SIAM SAPPHIRE MINES.
RAINBOW CHASING.
Mr. Astor, grandson of old John
Jacob, who made a fortune dealing
in furs, caused Astoria to be on the
map and Washington Irving to write
the interesting story of its settle
ment, is mad. No less a persqpage
than the queen of England has slight
ed him, or rather bis paper. The
amusing part of the affair is the
openly-expressed chagrin which Mr.
Astor indulges in. He should come
over to this side of the pond, qnit
monkeying with royalty, and run a
good, solid American paper, as we
do.
At the close of last year there were
20,390 miles of railroad open to
A dispatch to I he Tribune from
London says that the special envoys
of the United States to negotiate
with European powers for a settle
ment of the silver question on an
international basis, have . awakened a
keen interest in the French, govern
ment, which has promised to lend its
diplomatic support to the cause.
Thus does the will-o the wisp lead
the envoys on from one, feast to an
other, always tantalizingly out of
reach (not the dinneis) and always
about to be grasped. That old term
of ""rainbow chasing" fits it better
than -any other. Envoys will be
treated with the most distinguished
consideration, and will get home
this fall with a choice collection of
promises and a cap full of wind.
Noting the almost total annihila
tion of circular and poster advertis
ing in Philadelphia, the Times of
that city says that the people no lon
ger look at the glaring things on the
walls and board fences, will not ac
cept the printed "dodgers" thrust at
them on the street, and as a rule re
fuse to look at the printed or even
engraved circular sent through ,the
mails.. ' The only announcements
that seem to hold their own and re
tain popular favor are those that ap
pear in the magazines and news
papers, especially of the higher grade,
that enter households. Even in this
the old "slap-dash" idea has been
abandoned, and they are so thorough
and made so entertaining that they
are read : almost as extensively as the
news columns. -Telegram.
Value of Their Product Is In the Quantity
Not Quality.
The Pailin mines are spread over an
area six miles by two, and consist of 13
uming villages, the chief of which are
Eaw Tulca and Baw Dineo. TEese two
art; more than four' miles apart., but
IV.ry are joined by an excellent road cut
through the forest and well drained.
Sapphires; says the London Times, are
found all over this district; the whole
countryside is riddled with holes sunk
in the red soil down to the sapphire
layer. Formerly the stones were found
quite near the surface, but those places
have long- since been exhausted, al
though the Burmese still continue to
turn over the old heaps m tne firm con
viction that precious stones grow. Now
the stone's are found at a depth of from
15 to 25 feet, in a reddish, gravelly layer
of varying thickness up to 18 inches,
The pit sunk is usually some five feet
in diameter and either square or cir
cular. Soil is raised in bamboo bask
ets, attached to the end of a balanced
lever, and when the sapphire layer is
reached the stratum is carried to the
nearest water and washed caref u'lv for
stones. Not more than one shaft in
three pays for its working expenses, but
when the sapphire layer is struck the
profits may be large indeed. It is all
a question of luck. To dig and work out
one shaft occupies two or three, men
one month. : Two or three Burmese gen
erally go into partnership and hire
Laos miners to work for them and sink
the shaft at the rate of two ticals (two
shillings eight pence) per 18 inchest. Oc
casionally sapphires of considerable
value reward the miner, but tho sap
phires of Pailm are of more commercial
value because of their quantity than be
cause of their intrinsic excellence.
A NEW
Deepest Spot in
RECORD.
The Spaniard talks saucily of
meeting the hated Yankee on the
sacred soil of Cuba, and insinuates
that if this government don't be
ware, Weyler will whale somebody.
With 60,000. more soldiers required
to maintain peace in one little prov
ince, the nre-eater 8 words become
ridiculous. ' If Spain must really
the Ocean Nearly Six
Miles.
For20yearsormorethedeepestspot in
the ocean has been supposed to be to the
northeast of Japan, says the New York
Journal. There the bottom lies 4,655
fathoms down, or more than five milea
beneath the surface of the waves.
In the latest hydrographer's report of
admiralty surveys, made by the British
government, this ocean record, which
has stood so long, is beaten, for there is
official information of a deeper sound
ing than has hitherto been made. The
deepest spot in the ocean, so far as
known at present, has been found to be
in the neighborhood of the Friendly and
Kermadee islands, in the Southern Pa
cific Here the maximum depth is
5,155 fathoms, or close upon six miles.
The observation, made by the officers
on board the British ship Penguin, is all
the more interesting for the fact that it
bears out the result of previous re-;
searches, showing curiously . enough as
it does that the deepest parts of the sea
are not far from land.
- Deep-sea sounding has come of late
years an exact science in itself. One cu
rious feature of it, and one which is lit
tle known, is that the "leads" used have
to be constructed with especial strength,
in order to withstand the enormous
pressure of the mass of "water which
bears down upon them when they lie
upon the bottom. . So great is this pres
sure that, the sounding apparatus in
ordinary use would be crushed.
By existing arrangements with the
publishers of the Weekly Oregonian, we
are enabled to club that excellent paper
with the Twice-a-Week Chronicle at
the low rate of $2.25 per year. Now is
the time to send in your names.
A French Invention Which Sella
for a Quarter. ,
It Is Hardly Up to Uu American Ma
chine, However It Is- Thought It
May Affect the Price of Bicycles
the World Over. .
A business Las just been started in
Paris which may affect the price of bi
cycles all over the world. It undoubt
edly will, if the claims made by the
champions of th . new undertaking
prove true. Cheap bicycles, so cheap
that the mention of the sum takes one's
breath away, are to be the product of
this new business or factory. . '
Wooden bicycles were offered for sale
in Paris some time ago at the unheard
of price of 26 sous each. Henri de Par
ville, scientific editor of the Journal des
Debats, was musing over this strange
fact, when one day he received a letter
informing him that a very useful bi
cycle could be made for two sous, which
are equivalent to' a couple of cents of
American money. A bicycle for a couple
of cents! Just think of it! A few
days later Paul Clerc, the writer of the
letter, showed M. de Parville his two-
cent bicycle. It was simply composed
of a couple of pieces of wood taken from
an old box and two cents' worth of iron.
It was, in other words, a rough speci
men of the primitive velocipede, as in
vented by Baron de Drais in 1818. The
component parts of this machine were
a rough wooden framework and two
wooden wheels of equal size.
M. Clerc's idea is to place on the mar
ket machines fashioned after this old
model, but with all feasible and inex
pensive improvements. The machines
will have neither pedals nor intricate
mechanism of any kind. They will be
composed simply of a wooden frame
work, two wooden wheels and a saddle.
They will be known, not as bicycles,
but as celerets. i
It is not expected that the celerets
will supersede the regular bicycles, but
it is considered certain that thousands
who cannot afford to buy bicycles will
buy celerets. A first-class bicycle costs
$100 or more ; a first-class jceleret can be
bought for one dollar or two dollars,
and one of an inferior grade can be pur
chased as low as 25 cents. Nay, there is
no reason why a handy man or boy
should not make a celeret for himself,
in which case the only outlay neces
sary woud be a couple of cents for iron,
And in regard to the utility of the
celeret Baron de Drais said many years
ago: "On a good road my machine carj
travel at the rate of two leagues, and
even four leagues, an hour, and when
going down hill its speed is greater than
that of a galloping horse." Perhaps
the baron bragged. Thecelertmay not
go quite as fast as he claims. Still, it
can be made to go fast, and with little
effort. The rider is really walking,
while in a sitting posture, and is far less
likely to become fatigued than if he
were running in the ordinary manner.
Progress is made by touching the
ground alternately with the right and
left foot. The machine, once set in mo
tion in this manner, goes along steadily1,
and the speed at times is so great that
the rider has no need to propel himself
with his feet.
"Put pneumatic tires and other mod
ern improvements on a celeret," says
M. Clerc, "and there is no reason why
it snouia not go almost, as last as a oi
cycle." He also says confidently that a man
can travel a long distance on a celeret
and feel hardly the least fatigue at the
end of his journey. He accounts for
this fact on the ground that none of the
energy spent on propelling the machine
is wasted, and that the amount of en
ergy required to travel a long journey
is much less than might be expected.
M. Clerc sees clearly that it will be no
easy task to make the celerets popular.
When their prototypes, the draisennes,
were invented, at the beginning of the
century, the few persons who ventured
to use them m France were unmerciful
ly caricatured. In England the ma
chines became more popular, but there,
too, their riders were ridiculed. We all
know how long it has taken the modern
bicycle to win its present high position.
M. Clerc, however, is confident of success.
According to him," says the Journal
des Debats, "thousands can derive ben-
flt from a machine like this, which costs
almost nothing, which travels as fast as
a trotting horse, and which can be rid
den by anyone without the slightest
danger of falling off. How many young
people would use it for amusement and
health, and also for the purpose of learn
ing how to ride the regular bicycle?
Workingmen could ride to their busi
ness on celerets, children could go to
school on them, peasants could ride to
market on them, and even business men
could use them to save time. So light
could they be made that riders could
easily carry them under their arms, if
necessary."
Analyzed thoroughly, then, M. Clerc's
idea is philanthropic. He wants to fur
nish workingmen and the poor general
ly, who cannot afford to buy bicycles,
with machines that for all - practical
purposes will prove quite as serviceable
to them as any bicycle. N. Y. Herald.
Baseball Girls.
At McMinn ville the "4th of July pro
gram - had something new, it being a
game of baseball between nine girls and
nine old men, the former winning. The
names of the players are :
- Girls Mary Weston, Stella Kinman,
Ollie Mulligan, Carrie Mulligan, Flossie
Blair, Ruby Gilbaugh. Alma Jellison,
Ada Wilson, Rosa Gan Bnskirk.
Old men D. A. Judy, C. Smith, J. L.
Ladd, J. W. Briedwell, R. W. Phillips,
T. J. Jellison, Mahood, C. R. Jack, A.
Dorin. " -
T This la Tour Opportunity. '
On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps,
a generous sample will be mailed of tho
most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure
(Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demon
strate the great merits of the remedy.
ELY BROTHERS,
. 66 Warren St, New York City.
Her. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls, Mont,
recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. I
can emphasize his statement, "It is a posi
tive cure for catarrh if nsed as directed."
Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres.
Church, Helena, Mont.
Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
cure for catarrh and contains no mercury
nor any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents.
Firemen's
Excursion
to Multnomah
Falls,
Sunday, July 11th.
Str. Regulator.
Tickets, $1.00.
Regulator Line
Tie Dalles. PortM aii Astoria
Navigation Co.'
sta-RepIatorl Dalles City
FREIGHT. AND PASSENGER LINE
BETWEEN
The Dalles, Hood River, Cascade Locks and Fort
land daily, except Sunday.
GOOD SERVICE. LOWEST RATES
Are yon going '
DOWN THE VALLEY
OR TO
EASTEEN OREGON ?
II so. save money and eniov a beautiful trln on
tbe Columbia. The we t-bound train arrives at
The Dalles in ample time lor passengers to take
the steamer, arriving in Portland in time for the
outgoing Southern and Northern trains; East
bound passengers arriving in Tbe Dales in time
to take the East-bound train.
For further information apply to .
J. N. HARNEY, Agent,
Oak Street Dock. Portland, Oregon,
Or W. C. ALLAWAY, Gen. Agt.,
The Dalles. Oregon
Jiioli lio illo
TO THE
E M S TI
GIVES THE CHOICE OF
TWO Transcontinental ROUTES!
Don Joan Mine Sold.
Yesterday Cbas. A. Smitb, of Denver,
purchased the Don Joan mine, one of
the most promising gold producers in
the Bonanza district, says the Baker
City Democrat.''
This property has been a steady
yielder ' for some time past, a three-
stamp mill producing about $1000 a
week. This mine has been operated by
Messrs. Kellev & Allen, tbe recent own
ers, who yesterday disposed of the mine,
the purchase price being $30,000.
The merchant who tells yon he has
something else as good as Hoe Cake soap
is a good man to keep away from. a2 3m j
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For full details call on O. K & Co. s Agent at
Tbe Dalles, or address
W, H. HURLBURT, Gen. Fsss. Agt
Portland. Oregon
E. H'NEILL President and Manager
TIMS CARD.
' No. 4, to Spokane and Great Northern arrives
at 6 p. m., leaves at 6:05 p. m. No. 2, to Pendle
ton, Baker City and Union Pacific, arrives at 1:15
a m departs at 1:20 a. m.
No S, from Spokane and Great Northern, ar
rives at 8 80 a. m., departs at 8:85 a. m. No. 1,
from Bakir City and Union Pacific, arrives at
8:56 a. m., departs at 4:00 a. m.
Nos. 23 and 24, moving east of The Dalles, wilt
carry passengers. No. 23 grrives at 6:80 p.m.,
departs at 12:45 p. m.
Passengers for Heppner will take train leaving
here at 6:05 p. m.