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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1897.
The Weekly Ghrooiele.
CUCNH OiriCULII.
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Sheriff....
Clerk
Treasurer
Commissioner
AneMor
Surveyor. . .
T. i. Driver
A M. Kelsny
c. L. runup
I A. b. Blowers
i D. 8. Kimsey
. W. H. Whipple
...J. . I'Oll
Superintendent of Public Schools... C. L. Gilbert
vttroner.. ....... if . a-, buiw
HATE OFFICIALS. .
Sjvernoi W. P. Lord
Secretary of State H B Kincaid
Treasurer ..Phillip Metachan
apt. ot I'abuc instruction i. m. irwip
Attorney-General. C. M. Idleman
' . 1G. W. McBride
dibu. jj.-h. Mitchell
tB Hermann
-"'"0""" w. K. Ellis
Btate Printer : ....W.H.Leeds
THE ; CO USER IN WHEAT.
Those who are watching the- wheat
market closely are eipecting devel
opments of a sensational character,
A combination has been formed to
corner December wheat, and the in
dications are the effort may be suc
cessful A pool headed by the
wealthy Chicngoan, Loiter, is buying
up the wheat as fast as it is offered.
and announces that it is expected the
price will reach a dollSr and a half a
bushel. The president of the Chicago
board of trade has made the state
ment that he expects wheat to reach
a figure considerably higher than at
present.
It is thought by many that Amer
ica has sold to a closer margin than
should hare been done, and when
this fact is made patentt wheat will
take a jump. The crop in Argen
tina is only an average one : India
-
has the ravages of the famine to make
good, and in Europe there is a short
age. It is these conditions that
make the success of the attempt to
corner, more than a possibility.
The bulk of the crop has left the
farmers' Lands, and a rise in whlat is
not desired now as it was in the fall.
True, some farmers who have not
yet sold would be benefited, but the
great gainers would be the cold
blooded speculators who play with
millions,. while the losers would be
nomah county i!l be on more bitter ; year, however, the law enacted by
than ever. It is the duty of the out- the last congress compels ine secre
sTde delegates to take control of the tary to put into the annual ' estimates
parly macLinery, and when the state the eutire sum named in these state
convention meets make the noraina ments of the '-amount that can be
tions without regard to the. fi.-jlit in profitably expended in the next fiscal
Portlapd. In this way only can Re- year." rue result is that the sum
publican success be assured. . "estimated" for river and harbor
rorks alone in the next fiscal year
A SURPLUS, SOT A DEFICIT. i3 $05,400,409.81, while nobody ex
pects that the appropriations will be
more than one-third of this sum. .
It is apparent that the actual ap
propriations fcr , the fiscal year will
be $20,000,000 less than' the esti-
- The New lork Tribune says
Hereafter the secretary of war shall
annuallj' submit estimates in detail
for river and- harbor improvements
required for the ensuing fiscal year to mated receipts, instead of $20,000,-
thc secretary of the treasury, to be q0q more.
included in and carried into the sum
total of the book of estimates
This quotation from the last Sun
dry Civil Appropriation bill, as it
became a law and stands upon the
THE APPROPRIATIONS.
Here comes the
eral journals that
assertion in sev-
Secretary Gagi
statute books, explains the apparent himself estimates there will be a defi
nrnsnor-t nt n rlpfinir in the fiscal vear Cit Of $21,000,000 in the next fiscal
which is to begin On Julj 1, 1898. year under the present revenue law,
a o-rtnrl deal of distress has been Is it strange if many newspapers are
manifested in certain quarters over j lamenting their loss or mnuence witu
the figures of the report of the sec- the people, even when tney try to
relary of the treasury, which indicate use it in a good cause, so long as they
a deficit in the next fiscal year. The resort to such untruths in order to
rmonle mdiiloino- in this distress will support any claim they make? The
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perhaps be gratified to know that the secretary made no statement war
deficit is only apparent, and that the ranting such an assertion. What he
figures, which considered in the light did was to contrast his estimate of
nf the nnraoTflnh cited, warrant the the probable revenue for the next
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assertion that the next fiscal vear nscai year wun trie amounts asueu r.y
will show a. surolus of $30,000,000 the various .departments, showing
instead of a deficit of $21,000,000,
The explanation of this apparent defi
cit is found in a single line on page
12 of the secretary's report. It is
as to? lows: "Public works, war de
partment, $65,400,409.81."
The above is the formal "estimate"
for river and harbor improvements
in the" fiscal year in question, now re
quired to be inserted in the annual
estimates sent to congress by the
that if all the money asked should be
appropriated by congress, and spent
during the fiscal year, there would
result a deficit of $21,647,886. This
formal statement, made by successive
secretaries in their annual reports, is
never supposed to be an estimate by
them that congress will appropriate
all the sums asked, although it does
at times exceed the estimate.
- The fact remains, says the Tribune
the poor of the great cities, whose judgment of the chief of engineers,
pittance . is scarcely enough to keep
body and soul tosether now. and to
whom a rise in the price of wheat
means still greater denial. Better it
-would be, if 'twere possible, that a
rportion of this projected rise be add
led to next year's price, and then the
-.whole country would be the gainer.
An index to the general improve
meat of business conditions through--oot
the conntry is found in the in-
creased employment given to labor.
In New York City there are nearly
'-35,000 less unemployed men than
Ihere were a year age at this time.
So far in the present month 841 per.
ons have seenred employment
through the 'Association for Improv
ing the Condition of the Poor, while
during December of 96 only 263
persons were thus provided for. Let
what will be said, a protective tariff
has stimulated all kinds of business
throughout the country, and the man
' who works is receiving his full bene
fit. When labor is employed one of
the great reasons for social unrest is
eliminated.
secretary of tho treasury. Prior to that the responsibility for the future.
the adoption of this new requirement both as to sufficiency of the revenue
the secretary of war made his esti- and as to possibility of strengthening
mates of the amount required for the tie monetary system, rests just where
river and harbor improvement on th'e President McKinley placed it when
he urged in his message great prud
ence in appropriations. It. is obvi
ous that congress has power to ap
propriate more money than its reve
nue laws raise, and equally obvious
that a deficit, so long as it exists,
involves more or less risk of distrust
regarding the monetary- future. In
plain words Secretary Gage has
row be is obliged to insert in the
annual estimates every dol'ar that
any and every subordinate officer in
charge of the various improvements
the country over may choose to
name as the amount that can be
"profitably expended" during the
coming fiscal year.
And now it is rumored that Ger
many is planning a conp to seize the
the Hawaiian Islands and secure the
sapreroacj of the Pacific. While
there is absolutely no foundation ior
the report, and it is undoubtedly as
untrue as any of the fake sensations
of "yellow journalism," yet even the
thought of such a possibility would
evoke- the declaration from every
true American that no foreign nation
can get control of the Islands with
out a merry brush with the American
navy. We may not want Hawaii
ourselves, but we will see to it that
no other nation gets her. She must
either . be independent or wholly
'American.
The war scare now appears in Asia
when Russia, Germany and England
are wniting for China to die. The
avarice of the old woild monarchies
is pushing their armies and navies to
points further away and China bids
fair to follow the fate of India and
pass under the dominion of a foreign
people. Along the shores of the
Pacific the drama of history is going
to be played doring the next few
years. China is the first victim se
lected, and whether the drama turns
into a tragedy, time alone can tell.
Since the Oregonian has led the
way, the Republican fight in Mult-
Everybody familiar- with the re- shown congress that it is asked "by
ports of officers in charge of liver the several executive departments
and harbor works knows that it is and offices' to appropriate $21, bUU,
their habit to recommend the annro. 000 more money than Its revenue
priation of large sums, usually two law wil1 probably yield next year.
or three times as much as is expect- although that law will probably
ed to be obtained. It has also been yield next year, although that law
the habit of the war department for wiH yield, in his opinion, $13,600,000
many years to reduce to about one- more than the government requires
third of their dimensions the estl. for its expenditures this current
mates made bv these subordinate year, and $34,400,000 more than it
officers. - actually expended in the last fiscal
An example of this may be found year. Thus the whole question
in the total estimates for river and comes to be one of appropriations
harbor works sent to congress in De
cember, 1891, to cover the expendi
tures of the fiscal' year 1893, for
which the secretary recommended an
appropriation cf $113,208,303. On
the very same page began a lengthy
table which gave the detailed esti
mates presented for the various
rivers and harbors, the total of these
figures $52,489,950. " That table was
preceded by the following note :
"River and harbor, showing .the
amount that can be profitably ex
pended in .he next fiscal year. ' The
following statement is not furnished
as a part of the annual estimates for
the public service required by the
act of March 3, 1875, to be .resent
ed by the secretary of war 10 the
secretary of the treasury, but is in
serted as a convenient and custom
ary summary of items"taken from
the annual rejKul of the chief of en
gineers for the fiscal year 1801, show
ing, under the r revision of the act of
congress, approved March 2, 1867,
the 'amount that can be profitably
expended in tho next fiscal year' on
each of the woiks mentioned."
In this case it will be seen that the
figures covering the. ."amount tuat
can be profitably , expended in the
next fiscal year" were $52,489,950,
while the amount that was actually
estimated was $13,208,383. ' The re
sult was that the total estimates in
that year as they went to contained
for river and harbor, improvements
on the condensed item of $13,208,
393, instead of the elaborate esti
mate of ."profitable expenditures"
amounting to $52,489,950. -This
is the great increase asked, largely
exceeding the probable revenue,
necessary for the proper support of
the government?
This is the one question which the
representatives of the people in con
gress must decide in the light of their
knowledge of the needs and the will
of the voters. It is their especial
and great responsibility at this time.
They know that they can defeat
themselves and their party, as both
parties have more than once been de
feated, by appropriations which the
people hold excessfve in vie of the
existing conditions. It is plain to
them that the country greatly needs
such assured excess of revenue1 over
expenses as will strengthen the pub
lic credit and the currency and make
practicable reforms to that -end. If
they care rather for the satisfaction
of interested people in this or that
improvement .or building' or exten
sion of the public service, they have
to answer to constituents who are not
slow to remember that heavy appro
priations -without an ample surplus
involve grave risks.
The appropriatians asked this year
are substantially the same as the
amounts voted last year in most
branches of the service, and the
great difference is found in compara
tively few items. Under the war de
partment, including river and harbor
improvement, $65,400,000 is asked,
in place of $22,914,816 asked a year
ago. .The responsibility rests with
congress to decide whether, until the
sufficiency of the revenue has been
established, such extensive increase
of appropriation should be made
Secretary Gage's department reduces
its estimate for department service
and public works by $1,043,000, and
increases its estimkte for miscellane
ous expenses by $786,000, making a
net decrease. The department of
agriculture asks an increase of $500,
000, while in the estimate for foreign
intercourse there is a decrease. The
estimate for the navy deparment
shows a decrease of $2,350,000, and
the interior department shows a small
decrease in public works. The esti
mate for pensions is slightly reduced,
and expenditures for the department
of justice and the estimate for the
District of Columbia are reduced
about $500,000. A decrease is ' also
made in the estimate for interest on
public 'debt. - The great increase
asked is for public works, and that
increase alone would turn a comforta
ble surplus into a deficit if the reve
nue proves as large as Secretary
Gage estimates.
Yesterday's dispatches tell of six
glass factories which will resume
operations January , 1st another
practical illustration of the benefits
of a protective tariff.
NEWS NOTES.
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ORCHARDS ... JH. JEJ. UUOlllN. .
' THE DALLES, OR
DISEASES OF INFANTS.
Mesnbr
Bos-
Qaincy was re-elected mayor of
ton yesterday. ' -
Yesterday a robber was killed while
trying to rob a station near Redding,
Cal.
The first meeting of the National
Building Trades Council was held at St
Louis Monday. .
laieBt aa vises say that England is
thinking very seriously of helping her
self to a tliee of China.
Reports received from Portland this
morniug btate that the Portland Cham
ber of Commerce may eend a relief ex
pedition to Alaska,
No appointments will be made by the
president miring the recess of ccngretB
except in case ot emergency. Despite
the announcement of , this fact, the
number of visitors at the White House
yesterday tras unusually large.
Yesterday Miss Leila Herbert, daugh
ter of the ex-secretary of war, . died at
her home in Wbington. The death was
reported to police headquarters as a case
of suicide caused by melancholia and
temporary aberation of the mind as the
result of illness. '
After a week of conference in Boston,
Justices Putnam and King, the commis
sioners for the United States and Cana
da, respectively, in the arbitration of
the Behring sea claims, have completed
their work for the present, and it is an
deretood will soon begin the preparation
of their reports to their respective gov
ernments. -
Thursday's Dally.
Latest reports state tbat the Demo
cratic, Populist and Union parties of
Lane county have combined.
Matthew Richardson, a Clackamas
county pioneer, was killed yesterday
evening by falling from a wagon.
Latest advices say there is no danger
of this country, having anything to do
in the affairs of China.
A steamer is being bnilt at Baltimore
for traffic on the Yukon, which can be
navigated on ice or water.
The Cuban version of the battle
fought at Yacta ford, on the Canto river,
December 14th last, has been received
at New York through the mails by Cap
tain Alfredo Rodriguez, a Cuban insur
gent officer, who is invalided in that city.
tells of a crushing defeat inflicted
pon the Spanish general, Pando.
At Havana yesterday it was announced
from the palace that during the past ten
days the insurgents have lost 303 men
killed, and that in addition the Spanish
troops have captured seventeen prison
ers and that sixty-nine armed inenrg
ents have surrendered. The troops, it
farther announced, have captured
inety-five stands of firearms daring
this time. Among the killed, the state
ment continues, are three insurgent
leaders and three officers of the- insur
gent forces. The Spanish troops, dar
ing the same period, according to official
statistics, lost three officers and thirty
three Boldiers killed, and had thirteen
officers and 213 soldiers wounded.
Energr Directed
There is no, daug-er so great for a
man or a boy as idleness. It mothers
and fathers yvould save their boys, they
should give them soinethiug to do.. Buy
an ax and a sew, ad let them chop
np that wood,, no matter- how large
the bank account.- Let them keep'the
weeds from the f garden -and the tall
grass from the lawn, tne dirt, irom.
their own clothes and the dust from
their own shoes. " Don't do everj-thing
for them. It ' pays to ler.ch the boys
work not so much, for what they can
do as for v.-kat it. does for them. If
more boys could have a piece of ground,
shop, a place of some kind where they
could work off their superfluous energy,
we would hear less of truant and reform
schools, In the matter of reading, too,
if vou do Jiiot w ish the boys to read
worthless books and trashy novels, you
miist put into their hands good, well-
written books', and these not ot tne dull
type, which-'will discourage a young
mind. St. Louij Republic. . ;
eons -Affection Are the Most
Common. . -The
high mortality among infanta
ia largely due to the widespread oc
currence of inflammations of the mem
branous tract, the exact seat of in
flammation varying with the change of
the seasons. In summer the mucous
membrane of the stomach is likely to
be attacked, causing frequent vomit
ing, which results in an interference
with the absorption of nourishment;
while a similar inflammation of. the
mucous membrane of the intestines
will cause persistent diarrhoea, with a
like result. '
' In cold weather the mucous mem
brane of the nose, throat or lungs
is oftener the seat of the disease. -
The skin of infants, too, offers but a
feeble resistance to outside influences.
A condition of the blood due to indi
gestion often gives rise to eczema on
the cheeks, scalp and elsewhere, the
symptoms being roughness, redness
and even moisture weeping of the
skin. Local irritations, such as mois
ture, cold, or the rubbing of seams, are
apt to give rise to the state known as
"chafed skin." -.
This sensitiveness of the infants
skin should be borne in mind, and the
underclothing should be loose, soft,
and frequently changed, whrle nature a
skin-tonic for both infants and adults
the bath -should be daily adminis
tered.
In view of the quickness with which
infants become chilled, especially Be
fore the period when they are able to
walk, the garment worn- next to the
skin should be invariably of wool.
which material affords the best protec
tion against a too rapid loss of heat.
In sumrner the garment should be thin
ner, but always of wool. Infants are
rarely "bundled up" too much, not
withstanding opinions often freely ex
pressed to the contrary.
The lack of resistance to disease in
infancy which has been noted in con
nection with the skm and the mucous
membrane is likewise characteristic of
other organs. The most common age
at which infectious diseases are con
tracted is in infancy, and in early in
fancy they prove more severe than
with older children and are oftener
fatal. .
An impressioii that "children's dis
eases are .better once had ana done
with is entirely at variance With the
observation and judgment of the med
ical profession. The sequence of dis
eases which the physician so often sees
in children, as the result of one of the
contagious diseases needlessly con
tracted, is a lesson which, he cannot ig
nore. One disease makes a child less
able to battle successfully with an
other which may be contracted before
he is rid of the first. Wise parents
ward off the contagious diseases as
long as possible. Even measles fre
quently proves fatal in the young in
fant, while in other cases its evil ef;
fects are lasting throughout childhood.
Youth's Companion.
MUSCLE-MAKING FADS.
MISS GUILFORD'S VOW.
Bald She Wouldn't Speak for Fifty
Years, and Now She Can't Talk.
The people in the southern part of
Hancock county, Me., are deeplv inter
ested in a peculiar malady which af
flicts Miss Experience Guiliord, an aged
woman of East Eluehill, who has not
uttered a word or any audible sound
for SO years. The original reason for
Miss Guiliord's speechlessness was an
ger because she could not marry the
man of her choice. When she was 19
years old she fell in love with William
Simpson, the village schoolmaster.
They were to be married on June 18,
1847. One of Miss Guilford's rejected
suitors told tales about the schoolmas
ter, and Miss G uilford's parents stopped
the wedding. Miss Guilford thereupon
Kairi:-
"I swear. I will not speak a word,
thon.-rh I live for 50 vears. unless I mar
ry this man." '
She kept her pledge. . Her parents
AnA A K . i: I. l.AwvnnH
ried brother. When he died she made
her. home with a sister, and after the
RisterR rifnth F.T10 tront tn a oamn in thp
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woods and kept house for a brother,
with whom she is ri&w living. All this
time she performed her share of the
household work and did not show any
regret for having made the vow. When
the 5C years of silence expired she
wiui visited by a large number of rela
tievs and fricnd3. who went to the camp
for the uurnose of bein? nresent when
she was at liberty to speak. Soon after .
tne midJay meal Hiss Gui'-Cord dressed
herself in the garments which she had
not woi;i for Ielf a century. At two
o'clock uhe stocd up before the people, ...
siuiled hud opened her mouth to speak;
but, thr..ih she tried hard and got red
in the face ia trying, she could not
ivu"r a bcur.d. Ilcr vocal muscles had
biorne s.trophicd from long disuse and
re tused 10 work.
V.ten Miss Guilford found that she
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t.uuiu am.- Bum lkj uaiigui
for a fiyescian and .took to her bed
The doctor gave no. hope of recovery,
but E'j.7f -?t-j:l ihat r.he be sent to a
l!cston h:-- fnr. treatment. As soon
Exercises That Keep Athletic Girls
Abreast of Their Brothers.
The fad for fencing at home has
led many a girl to set up in the privacy
of her father's residence a private gym
nasium, or, as she prefers to dub it,
au "armory," where she practices with
the aid of. an instructor and in com
pany with a few of her intimate friends,
says an eastern exchange.
Many a girl can do her trick on the
flying rings or the parallel bar in a
manner that makes' her college-bred
brother hustle for his laurels And
he'll have to hustle still more when
the glorious May days come and she
can show the result of her secret train
ing on the golf links and the tennis
court,
The Vassar girls and students at other
of the famous women colleges and co
educational institutions have estab
lished gymnasium classes and are hard
at work preparing for the coming sum
mer. The Wellcsley girls train with
a special view of developing the mus
cles, necessary to become expert at the
oars, and their famous fours and eights
are expected to beat all records this
season. . . . :
Bowling has its devotees, and many
of the fair sex have proved themselves
experts on the alleys.
The most usual place for practicing
bowling is at some of the large ath
letic clubs, which generally have one
day in the week, known as "ladies'
day." : ... ' - .
Harry Martell's company will arrive
on the 5 :15 train, and the parade will
start from the depot at 5:20 sharp.
as Miss C
take i'.zb
effort to rc;
left her si
dc'ctb, w-hU
ve-'r !-..?!
able to r.'c!:! t!:e
quires! M.v. P'-n.
t f-'ets strong enough to
v t-ho v. ill rocke another
1 or f--;-crch. Her father
I sum cf money at his
rs 1-cei growing every
s b.-rk. so she is well
treatment she re-
THE LIGHT OF THE FUTURE.
Xradj-lnsf That Produced by Animal
and Vearetable Life. .
The incandescent electric light wastea
and throws away 98 per cent, of the en
ergy utilized, ' only two per cent, ap
pearing in the shape of light rays. On
the other hand, the light emitted by the.
firefly and the glow worm wastes but
two :per cent.. In other words, "the ani
mal light is 48 times cheaper.
In the course of recent experiments
Dr. Raphael Dubois, of Lyons, has made
elaborate studies of a great many kinds
of light-producing creatures. -There is
no lack of them in nature; in fact, thou
sands of species possess this curious
photogenic power. Not a few plants
also have it, and among the latter may
be mentioned certain mushrooms that
grow in Brazil and Austria. Some of
them give enough light to make it pos
sible to read by the aid of a single speci
men. The luminosity frequently seen
in autumn in the forests on dead leaves
or on bits of wood is due to fungi. The
yellow flowers of the nasturtium emit
a "small amount of light. " But in the an
imal kingdom the torchbearers assume
an immense variety of forms, the min
ute organisms that crc responsible for
mnch of the ocean's phosphorescence
to the deep-sea fishes that carry lamps
of their own and form endless torch
light processions through the other
wise black and gloomy marine abysses.
Many jelly fishes are luminous, and
so are some of the star fishes. A few
earthworms are light-givers and num
erous crustaceans have a luminosity
of their own. One kind of shrimp has
a brilliant circle surrounding the eye,
which is really a luminous socket. A
European species of "thousand legs"
enfits light in autumn- But no animals
are better light-givers than certain in
sects, and even the eggs of some of
these are luminous. From generation
to generation the light-bearing crea
tures transmit the torch that is never
extinguished, and which seems to have
been lighted at the very dawn of crea
tion. Boston Transcript. (
The Snipes-Kinersly Drug Co. have
just ' received a fine line of Japanese
ware suitable for Christmas presents.
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