THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1897.
The Weekly Ght oniele.
COUNTY OFF.IC1A1.B.
County Judge. Bobt. Mays
Sheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk A M. Kelsay
Treasurer C. L. r-hilliri
, , ... ( A. S. Blowers
Commissioners D. 8. Kimsey
Assessor ....... W. H. Whipple
8arveyor J. B. ioit
Superintendent of Public Schools... C. L. Gilbert
C Moner W. H. Butts
8TATK OFFICIALS.
Governor W. P. lord
Secretary of State HE Kincaid
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
Bnpt-of Public Instruction G. M. Irwin
Attorney-General C. M. Idleman
. tG. W. McBride
Bsnators J.H. Mitchell
IB Hermann
Congressmen. jw B Elllg
BUte Printer .. . W. H. Leeds
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THE WHEAT OUTLOOK.
The. Scientific American comments
on an address delivered recently by
Dr. William P. Wilson, director of
the Philadelphia Commercial Muse
ums, before the Pennsylvania State
Millers' Association, as follows:
"It is encouraging to learn that
during the last five years the United
States has provided the same pro
portion of the world's total exports
as it has during the past twenty
five years, and this in spite of the fact
that new wheat producing countries,
such as Argentina, Australia and
Rou mania, now contribute their
share to the total export trade. This
is shown by the fact that while the
average annual exportation of wheat
and flour from all countries for the
past twenty-five years has been 253,
000,000 bushels, and from the United
States 111,000,000 bushels, the an
nual exportation for the ptsi five
years from all countries has been
345.000 bushels ar.d from the United
States 164,000,000 bushels.
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Dr. Wilson is ot the opinion that
the future market for the surplus
flour of this country will lie in the
mnntr!A3 tr the smith nf lis. South
Africa and the Asiatic countries,
while European countries will proba
bly import our wheat and make their
own flour. We are evidently taking
a strong hold on the South African
market, which, against an importa
tion of only $111,750 worth of flout
in 1895, showed an importation of
nearly $1,000,000 worth in .1896, the,
figures for March, 1897, showing, in
turn, an increase of 300 per cent over
those for the same month in 1896.
"Without entering more fully into
the figures of this very timely address,
we may mention that Dr. Wilson
gives some account of the capabil
ities of Argentina, our greatest com
petitor in wheat raising, it seems
that there are 240,000,000 acres sui
table for the cultivation of wheat,
and that while the northern districts
are tropical, the whole of the middle
part is temperate, and the southern
districts are not as cold as the wheat
districts in the United States, frost
and a little snow being only occa
sional. Of the 240,000,000 acres
suitable for wheat growing, only a
little over 7,000,000 acres are de
voted to wheat. Twenty years ago
Argentina imported wheat and flour,
yet in 1894 she exported 59,000,000
bushels of wheat and 459,527 barrels
of flour. The cost of production is
estimated at 33 cents a bushels, and
the average freight to Europe is only
15 cents a bushel. The average dis
tance to the seaboard by-rail is one
hundred miles, as against one thous
and miles in this country. The pro
ducer is also favored by the low cost
of living, the small farmers (chiefly
Italians) living on a scale of frugal
ity impossible to Americans, and the
whole family, even to the small
children, assisting on the farms.
They have no barns, and the stations
rarely have warehouses; hence the
crop deteriorates before Teaching the
seaboard, When they have better
facilities for handling, they will pro-.
dace the wheat at even less cost.
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If we are to build up a trade with
countries other than European, as
we probably shall be driven to do in
the near , future, we must go to work
systematically and study the condi
tions, the supply ; and demand, the
freight an duties, and the standing
of the various import houses. There
is a danger lurking In this sudden
rush , of eoo'' fortune a' danger
which threatens not merely onr agri
cultural, but the whole of our indns
trial interests. We are liable just
now to .lose sight of the permanent
necessity for extending our market,
not merely for wheat, but for all . of
our manufactured products as well,
The past few years of depression
have not been an unmitigated evil if
they have taught us the necessity for
establishing- new markets . in which
to dispose of our ever growing 6ur
plus. It would be a most unfortu
nate ,outcome ot this year of plenty
if it should relax our efforts by sug
gesting that the. need for aggressive
action had passed by.
A VITAL QUESTION.
Sunday's Oregonian contains an
editorial entitled "Desheltered Wo
men" that should be read and taken
to heart by the whole people of the
United States. It contains as much
food for thought as could possibly
he crowded into the same space, and
that is nearly a column. Starting
with the bad results, from a moral
standpoint, of tiie association of men
and women in common work, such as
hop picking and the working in de
partment stores in large cities, the
article in question deals with the sub
ject in all its phases, and finally con
cludes that the place for women is in
the home. ' .
The subject is of vast importance,
and resolves itself into the question
"What shall we do with our women ?"
Advocates of women's rights, so
called, argue as they may, have the
immutable decree of rature in oppo
sition to them. Woman was by na
ture given the charge of home. For
her the indoor life was set apart when
mctheihood was made her's. The
care of children, the helplessness and
dependency of infancy, the gather
ing of little ones around her knees
settled that proposition. When she,
through choice or necessity,) puts the
home life beyond her reach, she sins
against herself.
It is hard - to sav that a woman
should not be allowed to support
herself by work properly belonging
to men, yet there can be no doubt
but that this should be so. Max
Nordau indorses this idea, if indeed
he does not formulate it, and real
ising that women who now have to
rely upon their own efforts for their
suDDort. cannot have the means of
support taken away without some
other being given them, suggests
that a system be perfected by which
all dependent women, that Is those
who have neither means of their own
nor relatives to provide for them, be
cared for bv the state.
Without going deeply into that
subject, we cannot refrain from
pointing out the fact that marriages
are steadily becoming less in propor
tion to population in the larger cities.
We believe the ieason for it is the
employment of women at men's
work. The woman works for about
half the wages a man would get for
the same work. For every woman
employed thus some man is kept out
of a job, and consequently being un
employed, or if employed, being
compelled to work for reduced
wages on account of the competition
of women, he is unable to support a
family, and consequently does not
marry. Without this competition,
he would get double the wages the
woman does, and could support both.
The woman by performing bis work
decreases her chances of marriage, as
well as those of her sister woman,
and so drives still more of them into
seeking employment at men's work.
The matter grows by what it feeds
upon, and unless a halt is called,
marriages will, in the cities, become
obsolete. When marriage fails mo
rality falls. What will be the final
result?
POOH BAHS DIFFER.
The Leutgert. trial at Chicago
promises to last for a month longer
Friday there were two experts on
the stand testifying as to the charac
ter of the bones found in the vat
where the body of his wife was sup
posed to have been destroyed by
caustic potash. One expert said
they were ''the bones of a delicate
woman,' while the other insisted
they were "the bones of a bog."
It is evident that in the nice shades
of distinction even experts are not
infallible. Dr. Doreeyj the bone cx
peit of the Columbian Museum, de
clared the femur, the bone oyer
which the contention arose, .was that
of a woman of delicate structure,
and proved it to his own satisfaction.
Then Dr. W. H. Allport, professor of
descriptive and comparative anat
omy in the Northwestern university,
declared in the most po;itive manner.
that the bone aforesaid was that of a
hog. "It came," said he, "from a
bos of delicate organization ; but it
was nothing but a bog for all that."
Now the experts in bones pretend to
be able to tell easily the sex of the
former owner of a human skeleton
by the femur, yet cannot tell the
difference between that of a woman
and a hog. Scientists have become
so metaphysically scientific that what
they know they cannot demonstrate,
and what they don't know everybody
knows. Some . of those fellows
couldn't tell the difference between
the bones of a defunct Klondiker
and an extinct mastodon; not if they
were told now things jn the Klondike
were exaggerated.
CHANGING CONDITIONS.
The great Northwest is entering
nponanotLer epoch in its creative
history. - The pioneer has done his
work; tho trackless forest, which
sixty years ago heard the sound of
the axe for the first time, has been
transformed into smiling farms and
happy homes; cities and towns have
sprung where in the memory of but
two generations the improvident
savage roamed at win ana nuntea
his prey, little dreaming of, the
changes soon to follow; railroads
have penetrated into the heart of the
country, causing civilization and
progress to follow its-narro trail;
where once lay broad prairies, un
disturbed save by the morning wind
as it swayed the luxuriant grass,
now are myriad grain fields, while
the broad rivers, on whose waters
but a little while ago the Indian's
canoe glided peacefully, now support
on their white bosoms the carryings
of a mighty commerce. All formi r
conditions have changed, and all ac
cording to natural laws. A new race
of men, surrotfnded by different
conditions, now occupy the place of
the brave Oregon pioneers; the des
tiny of the one has been accom
plished, the fate of the other remains
to be determined.
In former years the people of Ore
eon depended solely upon natural
conditions, which, with ordinary
efforts, yielded rich returns. Wheat
and wool, stock aud lumber, and all
kinds of natural products grew in
great abundance, and finding ready
sale in the markets of the world,
brought rich returns to the people of
the Northwest. The land waxed fat,
and a golden stream of wealth
poured continually into its lap.
But the opening of new countries
and the general progress and advanc
ing civilization have brought about
new conditions. No longer can we
depend altogether upon advantage
of situation, richness of soil and mild
ness of climate. , Competition in
every line of business is at fearful
strain; the margins of profits in all
lines of trade are smaller than in
former years, and it is push and well
directed management which gives to
one superiority over another. Ore
gon and . Washington are settling
down to a permanent basis. The
lines arc being drawn which succeed
ing years will make all the more
marked. The Northwest as a whole
will grow in strength and richness as
the years go on because it has the
resources and the men to develope
them ; but it remains to be seen what
portions pass one another in the fight.
It does not follow that because one
town was larger and more prosperous
than its neighbor in former years
that it will always remain so. His
tory often teaches the reverse, and
examples of this sort are seen in the
experience of - every one. No city
can , depend altogether upon, 'past
prosperity without making an effort J
for its continuation.. ; . ';
.. We Laye an interest in the general
growth of the Northwest, but a par
ticular one in the progreWof The
Dafles. This is our first concern,
ami U is for this that The Chbqki
exs wUJ always labor In the future as
it has done in the - past. The -.truth
i self evident that this is the year in
which The Dalles must determine its
future status. Other towns are
awake to that fact as regards them
selves, and many ot them are laying
a firm basis for prosperity. The
Dalles has - better advantages than
any of them, but we are not showiog
the same spirit of enterprise.
'Can any intelligent person gire an
adequate explanation of why there
should be woolen and scouring mills
running night and day at Pendleton
and none at The Dalles? or why
Salem, Oregon City, Albany and
Dallas should all have woclen mills
running on full capacity and The
Dalles none? or why La Grande
should be selected as the place to
experiment in making beet sugar,
and The Dalles passed by ? There
is no explanation save that we have
been dilatory in developing the nat
ural resources that God gave us.
Instead of a population numbering
5000, The Dalles should contain 15,
000, and would do so yet if indus
tries with pay rolls were started.
Now is the time to look the mat
ter square in the face. The capital
can be found ; water power exists in
unlimited quantities; the natural
products are here in greater pjofu
sion than anywhere else in the state,
and the brains to direct and carry on
these undertakings are here, if only
backed with the necessary nerve and
energy, lo establish manufacturing
industries in The Dalles should be
the nope and ambition or every
citizen. ;' ' '
William T. Stead expresses the
fear that "American women are in
great danger of being spoiled." Mr.
Stead is the gentleman who wrote a
large ,book inquiring "What would
Christ do if he came to Chicago?"
And yet the veriest tyro in religious
subjects, who bad any acquaintance
with Chicago, could have told him
that in such an event '-he would go
arcund it.
CITY COUNCIL MEETS.
CoSn rait tee on Lights Report Ce
Miller Referred to Committee--'
Other Business Transacted.
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At the city council meeting last night,
Mayor Nolan presided, wjtb Conncilmen
Thompson, Kuck, Stephens, Johnston,
Champlin, Clough and Johns present.
The minntes of the last meeting were
read and approved.
The petition of the Senfert & Condon
Telephone Coropanv to put in a etore
room on the city property on Third
street was read and referred to the com
mittee on streets and public property.
J. P. Mclnerny's petition to force
Mrs. Boneey to put in a sewer on her
property adjoining his on Third street
was referred to the city marshal.
In the transfer of property by C. L.
Phillips and others, the recorder was
instructed to furnish a certificate of sale
to each party.
- Mrs. Chas. Denton's bill for fuel, fur-
niehed to the fire engine house, was re
ferred to the committee on fire and
water.
The special committee on lights made
a verbal report, in which they stated
that thus far they were unable to get a
statement from the county officials as to
the amount of taxes and other matters,
and were granted an extention of time
to investigate.
Reports of city officers were read and
placed on file.
Amounts against the city were ordered
paid and orders drawn for the same.
Claims were then read by the recorder
and pronounced correct by the council.
BILLS ALLOWED.
C F Laner, marshal. $75 00
Geo C Brown, engineer : . . 75 00
J J Wilev, night watch . ..... 60 00
R B Sinnott, recorder. 50 00
C J Crandall, treasurer 20 00
D. P. & A. N. Co,. .100 00
Dalles Lumbering Co, lumber 112 00
W A Johnston, mdse. 17 85
C J Crandall, labor 1 00
D W Mann, hauling' 25
J W Blakeney, hauling . ; . . . . 1 00
r J) Barbara, do l uo
W Henzie. do 25
J C Crandall, stationary bills. .. . . 2 50
Kepair of water wotks. . . -. w
Maier A Benton, mdse. .......... 50
The recorder was instructed to get a
lock and key for the vault.
A motion was made and carried that
the recorder be instructed to draw . up
an ordinance requiring all bicycle riders
to carry a light after dark.
The case of Hngh Miller, who was
shot by KigLtwatchman Wiley, was re
ferred to the judiciary "committee with
the power to act. This case will prob
ably cost the city something like $175
Motion to adjourn was then made and
carried.
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NAMING THE BABY.
Lawsuit to Decide Whether the Rlsht
Belong-s to the Father or Mother.
The question as to whether the nam
ing of the baby belongs, as a matter of
right, to the baby's father or to the
baby's mother is raised in a queer law
suit originating in Eastkill, in the
heart of the Catskill mountains, re-
ports the Albany Law Journal. The
plaintiff is Ole Halverson, a Swede, who
cultivates a small farm on the moun
tain side. He has sued for damages
Eev. J. G. Remerton, a German Luth
eran minister of the same place, and the
pleadings set forth the following state
of facts: Mr. and Mrs. Halverson have
a son of tender years. The former de
sired that the boy should be called Os
car, after the present monarch of Mr.
Halverson's ' fatherland. Mrs. Halver
son dislikes the name Oscar and was
determined that the baby should not
be burdened therewith. Mr. and Mrs.
Halverson took the baby to the clergy
man to be christened.
Mr. Halverson requested the minister
to name the child Oscar, but Mrs. Hal
verson had already talked the reverend
gentleman over, and to Mr. Halverson's
surprise and indignation the boy was
not christened Oscar, but something
else, whereby Mr. Halverson suffered
serious disappointment, loss of author
ity in his household, laceration of feel
ings, etc., for which he prays damages.
The clergyman's -defense is that he
christened the child in accordance with
the wishes of the mother, whose rights
in the premises he considered para
mount. The case brings up a novel
question in jurisprudence, the decision
of which will be regarded with interest
in thousands of families throughout
the land. I
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IN LAMPPOST LETTER BOXES.
Hot Many Things of Value Found
There Dead Mice Dropped In.
"Ever find things in the boxes?" was
asked of a post office collector who was
taking the letters from a lamppost let
ter box.
"Some, but not such an everlasting lot,
either," was the reply, says the New
York Sun. "A thief fleeing from
his pursuers once dropped a watch
in a lamppost letter box, so that it
would not be found upon his person nor
along the line of his flight; but watches
are not commonly found in lamppost
letter boxes.
"Once when I came up to a letter box
I found standing by it a policeman and
a woman. The policeman said that the
woman had dropped a dollar bill into
the box between some letters and she
wanted to get it back. The rules of the
post office require that anything that
may be found in the boxes shall be
turned in at the post office: the loser
must apply for it there. If I had found
any money in this box I should have
been compelled to turn it in. But there
wasn t any money there; the lady must
have lost it or have left it somewhere
else.
"As a matter of fact not many things
of valute are dropped into lamppost let
ter boxes, uptown; you find a dead
mouse in a box occasionally, but that's
about all. Children put the mice in the
box: they find a dead mouse in the
street and think it's funny to put it in
a lamppost letter box."
CAN SEW UP HEART WOUNDS.
They Are Not the Kind Hade by a
Maiden's Glances, Either.
Can prompt surgical aid save the life
of a man stabbed through the heart?
It has always been held that any at-
tempt to operate directly upon the
heart was worse than foolish, and that
to sew up a lesion in the heart prop
er without killing the patient would be
an absolute impossibility, says an ex
change. Yet Dr. Behe, of Frankfort, Germany,
at a meeting- of the surgical congress
in Berlin recently, reported a success
ful operation of the kind the first in
theJustory of surgery-
and nrndured '
r !
hta miut i String oni -nroii
assembled scientists to'attest its truth.
Describing the case. Dr. Kehe said
the man had been stabbed in the right
side of the heart. He was conveyed with
great haste to a hospital and taken di
rectly to the operating room. The sur
geon laid bare the heart m a few sec
onds and found a wound in the right
side of the organ. . He sewed up the or
ifice and applied general treatment for i
arresting-' hemorrhage. - The heart
worked violently during the operation,
but the commotion of the orjraaprad-
ually subsided, and in due time the
wound healed and the patient re
covered. ' " . -
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OUR SMALLER COLLEGES.
Ia Many Respects They Are DolaT
Better Work Than the Larger.
. There are a few striking facts about
the small American college, writes Ed"
ward W. Bok in Ladies' Home Journal.
One striking fact is that CO per cent,
of the brainiest Americans who hav
risen to prominence andi success are
graduates of colleges whose names are
scarcely known outside of their own
Elates. It is a fact, also, that during the
past ten years the majority of the new
and best methods of learning have
emanated from the smaller colleges,
and have been adopted later by the
larper ones. Because a college happens
to be unknown 200 miles from the place
of its location does not always mean
that the college is not worthy of wider
repute. The fact cannot be disputed
that the most direct teaching, and
necessarily the teaching most produc
tive of good results, is being done in
the smaller American 'coKegea. The
names of these colleges may not be fa
miliar to the majority of people, but
that makes -them none the less worthy
places of learning. The larger colleges
are unquestionably, good. Eat there
are smaller colleges just as good, and,
in some respects, better. Some of the
finest educators we have are attached,
to the faculties of the smaller institu
tions of learning. Young girls or
young men who ere Being educated at
one of the smaller colleges need never
feel that the fact of the college being a
small one places themata disadvantage
in comparison with thei friend or com
panion who has .been sent to a larger
and better-known college. It is not the
college; it is the student. t ,
CHINESE WOMAN DOCTOR.
Ha Ktna- Ens; Is the First of Her Sex
to Study Medicine.
I As far as her name conveys to the
average American, Hu King Eng might
just as well be a man, but she isn't. Hu
j King is a remarkably pretty little maid
irom tne celestial empire, and more
than that, she is the first woman of
that heathen land to whom the (Degree
of doctor of medicine has been granted.
Dr. Hu was born in Foo Chow, and in
her babyhood she had every oriental
Juxury which a Celestial baby could
possibly cry for. Her grandfather was
a mandarin of power and! wealth, who
late in his life became converted to
Christianity and brought his grand
child up. in that faith.
When she was old enough little Hu
King was sent away to a boardirfg'
school, but she never seemed to take
any interest in smuggling caramels,
going to matinees andi other courses
which schoolgirls take. Instead, she
prowled-around in the dispensary con
nected' with the institution, ' learning
all she could about medicines and drugs.
So marked was her thirst for medical
lore that her father decided to make a
physician of her.
After bitter opposition on the part
of all her relatives, who said they would .
rather see her dead than a doctor, or
whatever the title is in Chinese, Hu
King came across the seas to this coun
try. She matriculated at the Ohio Wes
leyan university, and after four years
of hard, persevering work, was grad
uated with the degreeof masterof arts.
From Ohio she went to Philadelphia,
where she took a three years' course in
the Woman's Medical college and a post
graduate course in the Philadelphia
polyclinic, from both of which institu
tions she received degrees. Then fol
lowed several months of practical work
in the Woman's hospital in Boston, and
: , Hu f ully equipped f or her lif e work,
returned to Foo Chow and assumed
charge of the Siang-Hu hospital.-
Her success has . been remarkable.
One instance is related of a coolie wheel
ing his blind old mother 1,000 miles in a
wheelbarrow to consult the woman doc
tor. A double cataract operation and
the blind) was made to Bee.' fThe only
son of a wealthy mandarin was dumb
from his birth, and so of no account
j; v: 1 v-
aisquaiineo. xo worsnip Deiore
names of his ancestors. The tied tongue
once relieved, and the dumb was made
to talk.
Dr. Hu King Eng is one of the dele-
gates to the woman's congress to be
held in London next year. N. Y. Press.
Voices of Bullets.
The voice of a bullet varies. There
is the thin, high whistle, to which no
one- pays any attention for the first
half Hour. , mere is the prolonged
moan, iu cry 01 a iosi. spim, as a
i -j. .t a mi .i. ii- i
nuveust. xuigui say. nere is luc wumsa
howl, which for some reason always
seems to be taking one on the flank in
stead of fairly in front; and last of all
there is the low, ill-tempered buzz, as
though the nasty thing had got out of
bed the wrong side, as children say. It
is far the most terrifying, especially if
it suddenly ptops as the bullet strikes
something close at hand.: It was those
bullets only that we politely wished
"good morning." London Chronicle. .