THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1897.
The Weekly Ghfoniele.
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Conner Judge. '. ..Boot Mays
bQ6Tltt........
Clerk
Treasurer...
Commissioner!
Assessor
Surveyor
,.T. J. Driver
A M. Kelsay
,...C. L. Phillips
I A. s. mowers
i D. 6. Eimser
. W. H. Whipple
IS. liOlt
Superintendent of Public Schools... C. L. Gilbert
Coroner W. H. Butta
8TATK OFFICIALS.
Sovernor W. P. Lord
Becretary of State HE Kincaid
Treasurer -Phillip Metschan
Bupt. ol rublic instruction u. . lrwm
Attnrnov-ftonernl C. M. IdlemaD
o IG. W.McBride
"""" -JJ.'H. Mitchell
(B Hermann
uugnwuucu. 1W. E. EUls
State Printer W. H. Leeds
PENSION ABUSES.
The present necessity of retrench
ment in government expenditures
will prove of great value if it should
not only stop further pension extrav
- agauce, but lead to & revision of ex
isting laws and of the pension roll
itself. Hitherto congress Las paid
little heed to warning voices from
the great public, and none at all to
various presidential suggestions as to
the need of preserving the honor of
the pension system. It was thought
a few years ago that the highest
point in pension expenditure
drawing pensions than there are sur
vivors, and, as everybody knows,
thousands upon thousands of real
veterans counted among the 727,000
survivors of the war are not drawing
pensions.
The probability, if not the certain
ty, of great fraud, is sufficient to
make the duty of congress an urgent
one. The temptation is a strong one
Many argoe that as it is public
monev. and some are setting it
fraudulently, they might as well
have their share. The roll should be
revised so as to make it an honest
roll, and the many special acts of
congress making the way to the
treasury easier and the pay larger
should be examined, and some of
them repealed.
AMERICAN DOMESTIC COMMERCE
With a territory as large as Eu-
rope, a population double tbat or
Great Britain, and domestic indus
tries nearly equalling the aggregate
of those of Great Britain, France
and Germany, the foreign trade of
the United States is much smaller
than that of any of these countries.
had But in twenty years France increased
been reached, but the annual bill is her foreign trade three per cent, Ger
increasing again, and promises to go many eleven per cent., the United
several millions higher. Every con- Kingdom seventeen per cent, and
gressman now sees that care in mak- the United States sixty-six per cent.
Ing appropriations is necessary lest This growth is "especially remarka
the monthly deficit be continued in- ble, and eighty-six per cent of Ainer
definitely. . , . I ican shipping is engaged in coasting
During President Cleveland's first or inland navigation, and as the bulk
term it was extremely unpopular to of the foreign trade is done on for-
to criticise the pension system. It eign bottoms.
was taken as offensive to the veter- This striking fact is elucidated and
ans, and as indicating lack of sympa- many other interesting phases of the
thy with the great service they ren- growth and status of American in-
dered the country in restoring the dustries are shown in an article en
union and making the United States titled "Thirty Years of American
free from slavery. Since Republi- Trade," by M. G. Mulhall. in the
cans of the stalwart type in both November North American Review,
branches of congress are now calling Mr. Mulhall "the true policy of the
attention to the need of keeping United States points to a free ad mis
down the pension appropiiation by sion of all fibers, so as to stimulate
guarding against abuses of the gen- textile industries, and thus render
erous provisions of the laws, it may the country independent of foreign
not be considered unpatriotic to urge manufactures of this description
the cause of pension reform. Many The conditions prevailing under the
abuses hive recently been pointed experimental f ree trade of the Wil
out. and it ia elearlv made the rlntv sn om are or too recent occurrence
seen Eastern Oregon as well. These
colonists wish to secure several thous
and acres lying together. ' They
come with monej , and are prepared
to build homes in a new country. It
is immigration of this kind tbat
efforts should be made to induce to
this country. There is room in
Wasco county for hundreds of more
happy and prosperous homes, and
when the simple truth is known, this
section needs no other advertisement.
I he Willamette valley can no
longer claim superiority over Eastern
Oregon in the matter ot moisture,
The Cascade mountains have al
lowed the rain laden clouds to pass
without any hindrance, and the
amount of rainfall here this season
will be above the average. Plenty
of moisture is the farmer's want and
whether it camsi ia the ahipi of
snow or rain, its oeneuts are the
same.
STEPHEN GIZZ8UNKLER.
-of congress to provide a remedy.
An elaborate article in the New
York Sun will afford many bints to
willing teformers. It makes a care
ful estimate of the survivors of the
-civil war on the basis of the com
monly received statement that 2,063,- without infringin,
'391. individual actually served in pendence. This,
for those interested in the wool in
dustry to coincide in this opinion.
The eminent writer of the article
suggests also that all custom houses
between the United States, Mexico
and Canada should be abolished
on political inde
he argues, would
the union forces. Of these 304,360 double the trade between the United
died in battle or in hospital. Ac- States and Canada to the benefit of
cording to the census of 1890, there both nations, but Canadian bay, luna
were then 1,034,073 survivors, show- ber and coal have figured too Jarge'y
ing a natural decrease, up to that in commercial affairs recently for
time, of 724,958. Since 1890 it is Americans to appreciate the wisdom
estimated that from various causes of such an alliance.
the list has been reduced to 727,122. The internal trade of our country
In addition are widows and depend- is estimated at $40,000,000 daily,
ents of dead soldiers. From the and the external commerce a liitle
pension list it appears that there are over $5,000,000 daily. The former
947,542 pensioners, including 65,- nas insreascd forty-nine per cent
S60 children and 27,559 dependents, "nee 1880, while the latter has risen
leaving 854,114 survivors and wid- barely ten per cent. Internal trade
ows, or 40,745 more than the whole is the best gauge of national progi ess
number of soldiers and widows sur- because it reflects the power, energy
viving. In addition 187,505 surviv
ors are demanding pensions.
Remembering that there are many
actual survivors who are not re
ceiving pensions, it must be admitted
that we have here a problem In
and resources
Record.
of a people. "Wool
The world may progress in some
things, but the proportion of fools to
wise men seems to remain as great
as ever. Recent inauirv in the
arithmetic which is not easy of solu- work!, of th. frnmhHn(,
Pensioners are proverbial for tabii8hment. Monte Carlo, deve'oned
longevity. We still have on our I etme interesting, as well as astound.
lists not only pensioners of the war ,ngi facts In aM!tion to the 8ub.
of 1812, but also of the war of inde- -;lv n!(1 fh. npr,nA nf Tnnann tho
pendence. But it would appear that w ln honae8 provide for and
participants in the civil war have teep the judge8 poicej htj
the power of coming to life again, . t j .
and that the list of survivors by ble institutions. The total nwmn
some unexplained miracle is increas- of the tabe8 laMyear wa3 154(V
year uy jear, uuiwiuiaianuing 000 Mnda An inb1.Htin. ,tj, ;
ing
the expectations of an accelerated
death rate among them
There are on the pension rolls
378,000 who receive their pensions
under the provisions of the act of
1890. Of these, says the . Sue, not
one received an injury during the
war, and not one was able to trace
the press subventions 25,000 pounds.
It is stated that it is absolutely nec
essary to expend a large sum in se
curing the good will of the conti
nental press, and it is said that over
one -half the stories of suicides are
only bids on the part of newspapers
for a share in the "boodle." As t.h
any disability back to service in the world ows better in 80me thjDg8)
war. Their disability, when they the refinement of civilization brings
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xiau any, urw auuueuu U ui war with it vice8 of a deeper type
buu irum ausuiuieiy jnuepeuuenb
causes. , bo with the widows who are The representative of a number of
drawing "pensions under that act eastern colonists is In The Dalles
Their husbands died of diseases and looking for some location suitable
causes not in any way traceable to for such a settlement . This . repre
their war service. But, as has been sentative has visited all sections of
shown and as is plain by the records I the Willamette valley, but does not
on their face, more "survivors" are I wish to make a choice until he has
Old-Time Resident of Storkville t'en
ter Remarkable Experience.
"I doubt if any man ever had a more
singular experience," said Col. Calliper,
than once befell to the lot of my old
friend, Stephen Gizzbunkler, who for
merly lived in Storkville Center, Vt.
Mr. Gizzbunkler, like most of us, had
his peculiarities, the most conspicuous,
perhaps, being his habit of always car
rying an umbrella. No matter what the
weather nor what the signs might be,
he never went out without an umbrella;
he knew it would be sure to rain if he
did. Where he got that impression I
don't know. He may have been out
some time 'in his youthful days in his
best clothes without an umbrella when
it came on to rain.
"Some years ago when they began
making- the curious and costly experi
ments in the arid regions of the far
west, firing explosives from balloons,
and one thing- and another, to produce
rain, Mr. Gizzbunkler, standing one day
with his umbrella under his arm, in the
Storkville Centre post office, perusing
the newspaper which he had just taken
from the mail, said:
'"Why do they waste all this
money in mere experiments when they
could get rain with certainty and at
far less cost? Why don't they send for
me?"
"What could you do?' asked a neigh
bor who was standing near.
" 'Why, I could go out without my
umbrella,' said Mr. Gizzbunkler, and,
amazing as it may seem, it is not the
less certainly a fact that he wrote to the
mayor of a town near which some of
these experiments had been conducted
offering to go there and produce rain
for his expenses. It shows the con
suming desire for rain on the part of
the people and their readiness to take
any chances to get it, that they imme
diately sent for Mr. Gizzbunkler a
draft for the money to come on with,
without even asking him how he was
going to produce rain.
"When Mr. Gizzbunkler arrived at
the town he was met at the railroad sta
tion by a delegation of citizens who es
corted him to the hotel; later he was
waited on officially by the rain commit
tee of the town council, who, in the
presence of the reception committee
and a large number of other interested
citizens, asked Mr. Gizzbunkler his
plans.
"They had some queer people in this
town at one time or another, but Mr.
Gizzbunkler appeared to them to be
the most useless person they had ever
had there. At first they thought they
would kill him at once; that -there
would at least be some slight saving in
shipping him back as freight; but
Stephen was so obviously a well-meaning
man that finally they thought they
would give him a trial, which they did
on the following day.
"It was a day on which any other man
in the world would have left his um
brella at home, anyway. Stephen
Gizzbunkler was about to leave his at
home for the first time in many years,
and he was equally confident of what
would happen. He had been a little
shaken personally, by the attitude of
the people after' his simple plan had
been unfolded; but his confidence in
the success of his plan was quite un
broken. He laid his umbrella careful
ly across the foot of the bed in his
room at the hotel, looked at it almost
lovingly, and then went down to meet
the committee.
"They walked, Stephen ahead, the
rain committee and the reception com
mittee next, and then after them The
people, along the dusty road.
"Did it rain? No, no, no. It seemed
to Stephen, and it seemed to the people,
too, that the corn shriveled up as he
passed, and that the last blades of grass
withered.
They gave him one more trial the
next day, with the same result, and
then they took him back to the railroad
station. They had taken him away
from the station in a carriage; they
carried him back on a rail; but this
was a matter of detail that almost es
caped Stephen's attention at the time,
so glad was he to get back at all.
"On the day after Mr. Gizzbunkler s
return to Storkville Centre he went out
without an umbrella; he had had a
great experience, and he had been
somewhat impressed by it. Possibly
he had been mistaken all these years
and he thought he would see. But that
day there came a storm that ' swept
away every bridge in the county, and
which washed away, too, whatever im
pression the extraordinary experiences
in the arid regions had made upon the
mind of Mr. Stephen Gizzbunkler.
"Thereafter until he died Mr Gizz
bunkler carried an umbrella always, aa
firm as ever in the belief that it would
rain if he went out without one." N. I
PRESENTATION AT COURT.
What Happens to Any "Improper Per
on" Her Sponsor's Punishment.
, A morning journal, much given to
romancing, announces that "the pre
cautions taken by the lord chamberlain
to preclude the possibility of anyone
appearing at a drawing-room whose
past will not bear the closest scrutiny,
are yearly becoming more rigorous."
This .is a farrago of the purest fiction,
says the London Truth. As a matter of
fact, the lord chamberlain takes no
"precautions" whatever, and it is diffi
cult to conceive how this official could
possibly investigate the antecedents of
the hordes of nonentities who now go
to court, unless he were provided with a
large staff of detectives. All the re
sponsibility of a presentation is now
thrown upon the (presumably) "unim
peachable female" who undertakes it.
If an "improper person" is presented,
the immediate result is the arrival of a
shoal of anonymous letters at the lord
chamberlain's office. The lady who
has made the presentation is then com
municated with, and if the ultimate re
sult is unsatisfactory she is punished
by foeing herself excluded from the court
for a year or two, or if it is a bad case
she receives sentence of permanent
banishment. Moreover, if a lady on
the state ball or concert invitation list
has been so indiscreet as to make an un
desirable presentation, her name is
struck off forever. It is only in very
aggravated cases that presentations are
publicly canceled in the Gazette. The
usual course is for the lord chamberlain
to inform the offender that her presen
tation took place "by mistake," and
that she is to consider it as canceled.
Episodes of this description are of fre
quent occurrence, but they are kept
as secret as possible, for obvious rea
sons. ,
"A POT OF THE BEST CHAW."
Setting Out in kite !
As well as in the thick of the battle, is
a time when a man should be careful
about neat and correct dressing. First
impressions are half the victory. Who
has a better chance, even in looking for
a situation, xnan tne young man whose
attire is an evidence 01 taste, tnriitand
judgment? ' Young men who wish to
prosper should order their Suits and
Overcoats from
M. BORN & CO.,
The Great Chicago Merchant Tailors, j
New over 20 yn. at the head of the Custom Trade.
All ages can be suited. Style, fit and
workmanship are guaranteed. The j
world's best looms supply the material.
Tbt Best is always The Most Economical,
loo irrw ulictid riTrcsas to obdib fbom.
NEW YORK CASHJSTORE
A. C GIGER & CO.,
The Earliest Mention of Tea in tin
Year 1015.
The earliest mention of tea by ao
Englishman is probably that contained
in a letter from Mr. Wickham, an agent
of the East India company, written
from Firando, in Japan, on the 7th
of June, 1615, 'to Mr. Eaton, another
officer of the company, asking him tc
send "a pot of the best chaw," says
Uppincott'8. In Mr. Eaton's accounts
of expenditure occurs this item
Three silver porringers to drink chaw
It was not until the middle of the
seventeeth century that the English be
gan to use tea. The first importations
were from Java and the price ranged
from six to ten pounds sterling per
pound. In the Mercurius Politicus of
September, 1658, appears the following
advertisement: "That excellent and by
all physicians approved China drink,
called by the Chineans Tcha, by other
nations tay, or tea, is sold at the Sul
taness Head, a cophee-house in Sweet
ings Cents, by the Boyal Exchange
London."
Pepys enters in his diary on the 25th
of September, 1660: "I did send for a
cup of tea, a China drink, of which
had never drunk before." This is proof
of the novelty of the drink in England
at that date. In 1664 it is recorded that
the East India company presented the
king with two pounds and two ounce
of "thea."
About this time, however, the con
sumption of tea and coffee became
fashionable and the importations large
in proportion.
COLORADO FISH HAVE LEGS.
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Binocular Creatures That Inhabit th
Stream of the Centennial State.
Much consternation and still more
wonder was created in the state house
the other day, says the Denver Repub
lican,' by the discovery in the office of
Mrs. Mary A. Shute, secretary of the
state board of horticulture, of an ax
olotl, or fish with legs, which had be
come metamorphosed into a salaman
der. "All kinds of theories to account
for its presence there were broached
during the day. Of these theories the
strangest appears to be the most tena
ble. This is that the evoluted axolotl
was taken up by evaporation from a
mountain lake near the City of Mexico,
where its species is most abundant, to
come to earth again in Denver with the
afternoon's abnormally heavy rainfall.
In the morning when Janitor Smith
opened the windows in order to air the
office against the arrival of Mrs. Shute,
he beheld an object on the sill outside
which caused him to spring back in
horror. Squatted on the sill was a
hideous, dirty-hued green and yellow
reptile, about ten . inches in length,
with a head like that of a bulldog, an
enormous mouth, wide open, six web
footed paws and a tail that tapered to
a lash and was curled at the end.
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Daily and Sunday by mail $6.00 per year
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NEWS NOTES'
Portland merchants claim to have
done the largest Christmas busineea of
any season for many years.
Advices received today ' state that H.
E. Bart is to be the next president of
the Union Pacific.
The Overman Wheel Company, one of
the largest concerns in the country,
failed yesterday. -
Martin Quinn, the populist leader in
Portland, will resign his position in the
spring to go to Alaska.
Friday, which will witness the close
ot the ereat Leiter deal in wheat on the
Chicago board of trade, bids fair to be a
memorable one in the trade. No great
excitement is expected in the wheat pit,
but in oats a squeeze of shorts may oc
car.
An inspired organ published at Ber
lin, says the Chinese emperor, in order
to-avoid the reproach of having lost
territory, will lease Kaio Chou to Ger
many in perpetuity at a very low rate,
with all the rights of sovereignty exer
cised by England at Hong Kong.
No Wonder People Die.
Is it to be wondered at that the com
mon people of India are weak and un
healthy? Accounts say that in sea
sons when it is peculiarly scarce they
drink the very water they have been
bathing in; and that they inherit the
practice from generations of fore
fathers. In many country districts
there are 800 of them to the square
mile all living on what little rice they
can produce on their miniature farms,
Little wonder that they die by thou
sands, even when famine is not pres
ent; that all the minor diseases, as well
as King Cholera, find them a good feed
ing ground. The gospel of hygiene
should go along with every messenger
of light that is sent there. Everywhere.
Tesretarlan Dress. ' '"'
The members of the Women's Vege
tarian union in London have a new
craze. It is for vegetarian dress. They
have concluded that it is as wrong to
kill animals for clothes as for food.
They want vegetable boots, vegetable
gloves, vegetable gowns, and even veg
etable note paper. They have decided
that the kid, the calf and the sheep
shall be spared, if their influence can
do it.
Don't bolt yoor food, it irritates your
stomach. Choose digestible food and
chew it. Indigestion ia a dangerous
sickness. Proper care prevents ' it.
Shaker Digestive Cordial cures it. That
is the long and short of indigestion.
Now, the queetion is : Have yon got di
gestion? Yes, if you have pain or dis
comfort alter eating, headache, dizziness
nausea, offensive breath, heartburn, lan-
gour, weakness, fever.J jaundice, flatu
lence, loss of appetite, irritability, con
stipation, etc". Yea, you have indiges
tion. To cure it, take Shaker Digestive
Cordial. . The medicinal - herba and
plants of which Shaker Digestive Cordial
is composed, heip to digest the food in
your stomach. When your stomach ia
strong, care will keep it ao. Shaker Di
gestive Cordial ie for sale by druggists!
price 10 centa to $1.00 per bottle.
The Bowline Contest.
In the foar games of the bowling con
test played at the club alleys last night,
the Umatilla House team won for the
second time the palm of . victory by
a larger number of points than on Sat
urday afternoon. The totals for each of
the four games were as follows :
Umatilla Clnb
213. : . . . . . . ..Firat Game .209
217 ..... . Second Game 205
255. . . , Third Game :233
219 Fourth Game .187
Making an average of 904 for the Uma
tilla House and 834 for the club, and ac
cording to thia the Umatilla House baa a
victory of seventy pina to their credit.
A Wildcat Scare.
Kingsliy, Deo. 24, 1897.
Editor Chronicle :
I wish to report a little excitement
that occurred at the ranch of Mr.L Bemi
Rondeau of thia place. The excitement
was caused by a wildcat coming into the
yard, entering the woodshed, and swip
ing a chicken. Mrs.. Rondeau and" the
children . scared him and he .let. the
chicken drop, but stood his "ground.
Seeing his stubbornness, Mrs. Rondeau
sent one of the children after i notable
nimrod who Cli'ved cIoaeQby. In the
meantime the wildcat proceeded to get
another chicken. Jnat then the hunter
arrived on the scene with bia dog, but
without his gun. Th dog did his doty
by running the cat up a tree. Is the
house was an old gun, some powder and
caps, bat no bullets. Here the hunter
was equal to the occasion, and going
into the pantry took tae lead lining out of
a tea box, rolled it into a bullet, and
downed the cat the firat shot. It was
reported to be a very large one, measur
ing over three feet from tip to tip. 1
The writer was not there, but won
ders if one of the neighbor's cata in not
mieaiag. M. A.
ssuslness Announcement.
I take pleaaure in announcing to my
friends and patrons that George H.
Dufur haa thia day associated himself
with me in the business heretofore con
ducted by me. The new firm will here
after be known aa Dufur & Dufur, and
transact all business under aaid name.
Our aim will be in the future, aa it haa
been mine in the past, to give entire
satisfaction in all matters brought to ua,
and to treat each and everyone alike.
I desire to thank my many frienda
and customers for their liberal patron
age in the past, and solicit a continu
ance of the same with the new firm in
the future.
Dated thia 27th of December, 1S97.
Respectfully,
D. S. Dufur
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Notice.
Notice ia hereby given that bids will
be received by the county court for keep
ing the county charges by the week for
the ensuing year. All bids must be
filed with the clerk on or before the 5th
day ot January, 1898, at 9 o'clock a. m.
Court reserves the right to reject any
and all bida. A. M. Kelsay,
-County Clerk.
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