THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2.18S8
The Weekly Ghroniele.
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge. Robt. Mays
Sheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk A. M. Kelpay
Treasurer C. L. PbiUipa
, , IA.S. Blowers
Commissioners J i. s. Kimsey
Assessor W. H. Whipple
Barveyor B. olt
BuiMrinteadentof Public Schools. ..C. L. Gilbert
C.Snner W. H. Butts
Weeklv Clubbing Kates.
Chronicle and Oregonian $2 25
Chrouicleand Examiner 2 25
Chronicle and Inter Ocean 1-85
Chronicle and Tribune , ' . . 1 75
Chronicle and X. Y. World 2 00
IN THE EVENT OF WAR.
Peace between Spain and the
United States is made probable by
the strength of our. North Atlantic
squadron. Admiral Sicard Las at
bis. disposal for use in West Indian
waters a fleet of which any naval
commander in the world would be
proud. In it are the first-class line
of battleships Indiana, Iowa and
Massachusetts; the second class bat
tleships Maine, Texas, Brooklyn and
New York; two double terreled
monitors, which, though classed as
coast defenders, can fight effectively
in any waters, naval vessels of their
own tonnage; and several cruisers
and four or five torpedj boats. It
is comforting to know that we are so
well insured against Spain. Against
stronger nations we need more am
ple protection.
The secretary of the navy, says the
Inter Ocean, wisely recommends the
purchase of armor plate for the com
pletion of the Illinois, Alabama and
Wisconsin, which will be readj' for
launching soon atter the plate is sup
plied. The secretary's recommenda
tion is without prejudice to the erec
tion of a government armor-plate
plant, which he believes can be had
by an expenditure of from $3,500,
000 to $4,500,000; but in considera
tion ot the evident impossibility of
Shaving such a plant ready for work
tin 'less than eighteen months, he
. urges the speedy completion of the
At present our navy is fifth in im
portance in sea power, or rather our
-equal claim to fifth rank. Great
Britain, France, Russia and Italy
stand first, second, third and fourth
Mn number of warships and force of
guns.
We have four first-class battleships
in course of construction, not count
ing the Kentucky and Kearsarge,
which practically are completed,
shough they are not yet formally ac
cepted by the government. We also
have sixteen other vessels, armored
cruisers, monitors, gunboats, and
torpedo boats under construction.
When these are afloat we 'shall sur
pass Germany, unless, indeed, the
mperof prevail upon the reichstag
to make appropriations for the large
additions that he desires for the Ger
man navy.
Yet the strength of a naval force
is not solely dependent upon the
number of ships afloat Quality of
construction, calibre of guns, ability
of officers and seamen, and facilities
for coaling and repairing count for
much. With all these conditions,
except the last named, we have rea
son to be satisfied. Our ships are
the best of their class, their arma
ments are perfect, and the quality of
our sailors has been tested time and
again. But we are without a coal
ing place or harbor of.refuge in what
may be called the Central Pacific.
Samoa would' be of immense value
in a conflict wherein the Australian
or New Zealand trade" or possessions
ot Great Britain were involved, but
we have no "coigne of vantage" on
the leute of the great Asiatic trade,
or in the wide reach of waters where
in the battle for possession of the
west coast of this continent would be
-decided. Hawaii offers us" the one
-thing lacking.
tot inland war we safely may
trust to our volunteers. Yet we
need the two regiments of artillery
for which General Mills asks special
appropriation. Artillerymen are not
-made in a day, nor in a month. The
cost of maintenance of a navy and
-coast defenses is the. price that we
must pay for insurance against the
infinite cost and horror of war.
These.things are "the cheap defense
of nations." The power that is pre
pared for the event of war seldom is
called to war.
HAWAII AS A SUGAR PRODUCER.
The .desperate straits ot the oppo
nents Of Hawaiian annexation are re
vealed by their plea1 that the beet
sugar industry of the United States
will be ruined or injured if Hawaiian
cane sugar come in free. As a mat
ter of fact, most of it has been ad
mitted free for years under treaty of
reciprocity. In 189C we imported
free of duty from Hawaii 352,175,-
269 pounds of cane sugar, and not a
pound of dutiable sugar. The great
est quantity of dutiable sugar im
ported from Hawaii during the lasi
six years was 1,848,000 pounds in
1894, against 324,720,584 pounds
fiee of duty in the same year. But
our product of beet sugar, which
was no more than 1,078,200 pounds
in 1883, had risen to C0,000,000
pounds in 189C. The free importa
tion of Hawaiian sugar had not yet
retarded the growth of our beet
sugar industry.
But it is said that the treaty by
which Hawaiian sugar comes in free
may be repealed, whereas if annexa
tion come the Hawaiian output will
forever be free. Suppose itbe so."
The estimated consumption of sugar
by the people of the United States
for the year 1898 is 2,484,000 tons of
2,000 pounds each. Our domestic
production of cane and beet sugar
never has exceeded 400,000 tons.
Our imports of sugar were 1.572,4?8
tons in 1895. and were in excess of
that in 1896. The total product of
Hawaii is about 20 ),000 tons Serf
that if Hawaii be regarded as part of
tiie United Slates our sugar account
will stand thus:
TOSS.
Atnt produced states of onion 400,000
Amt produced territory of Hawaii. 200,000
Total .". .600,000
Amt. needed for home use 2,484,000
Deduct home product 600,000
Deficit of home supply. . . 1,884,000
So long as we are nearly 2,000,000
tons short of supplying the demand
of the home market, the beet sugar
grower has no cause for alarm.
Again.it is said that the cheap
labor of Hawaii will work against the
interest of the sugar grower of the
United States. The answer to this
is that the labor rate of Hawaii can
not be lower under annexation than
it now is, and than it has been for
some years. Yet, as we have seen,
the home industry, especially in beet
sugar, has grown wonderfully during
the years in which the Hawaiian pro
duct has come in free. Furthermore,
the tendency of annexation will be
to raise the price of labor in Hawaii.
For, by virtue of annexation, the im
mense importation of Asiatic labor
to Hawaii will be checked.
IS
THE UNITED STATES
FENSELESSr
LE-
Apparently in some quarters there
is a notion that that the United
Stales would be an easy prey for any
great European nation in case of war.
The New York Times, in referring
to theTIawaiian annexation question,
remarks that '"it is true there has
been and is now, nothing to prevent
any stong naval power from taking
possession of our chief seaports, aud
holding tliem tc ransom, but that
would partake too much of the na
ture of piracy' to be in accordance
with the spirit of the age." Then it
adds that "Germany might be moved
to such an enterprise, being, although
in most respects a modern country,
ruled by a mediaeval monarch."
Now let us see how this statement
looks when tested by facts. The
United States has more battleships of
the first-class, more protected aud
partially protected cruisers and more
gunboats than Germany, with a far
greater number of guns. Germany
has more battleship? of. the second
and third classes and more torpedo
boats than the United States. This is
how the two countries stood relative
ly to each other at the end of 1897.
In the aggregate, counting in the old
style and unseawortby ships and
naval reserves, Germany has more
vessels, guns and men than the
United Slates.
In the number of modern fighting
vessels, with their armament and
men, the United States is ahead of
Germany. This would give the
United States an advantage over Ger
many at the start in a war on the
ocean, which is the only place that a
war between the two countries could
occur. The advantage, of course,
would be immensely increased if
Germany were . rash enough to at
tempt what the Times thinks she
could easily do, to capture any of
our seaports. Moreover, the advan
tage would increase with the length
of the wr, owing to the great supe
riority cf the United States over
Germany in wealth, inventive skill
and facilities for creating, buying
and manning a new nav'.
Germany stands fifth among the
nations of Europe in strength and
efficiency of navy, England, France,
Russia and Italy, in this order, being
ahead of her. The on'y nation in
the world which would have any
chance to take ''possession of our
chief seaports" is England, and it is
exceedingly unlikely that England
could do it. It is entirely certain
that if England could capture New
York vor Boston by a sudden clash
she would be driven out in a few
days.
In number and strength of vessels
and in the quality of her seamen
England is almost as far superior to
Germany as Germany is to Hay ft.
Only one people in the world have
ever shown themselves the supenot
or the equal of the British as fighters
on the water, and these were the peo
pie who defeated her in many bat
tles on the ocean and on the lakes in
the wars of 1775-81 and 1812-15.
In a war with the United States the
"mediaeval monarch's" vessels would
take especial care to steer clear of
American waters.
The United States needs a larger
navy and more coast forts and men
to man them than it has, and it ought
to get them at the earliest possible
moment, but it is not quite so de
fenseless in its present estate as some
ignorant writers suppose.
The Virginia house has passed a
bill making railroad corporations re
sponsible for injury or death to an
employe by accident, whether the
accident be due to a fellow-servanfs
carelessness or not. Just why rail
roads and no other class hiring work
ingmer should thus bo taxed it is
difficult to see. It shows that a bad,
socialistic spirit is abroad in the
land. If the railways are enemies of
society, abolish them and go back to
road wagons. . Would that suit old
Virginia?
England uk making great prepara
tions to hold her supremacy upon
the seas. SLe has 117 war vessels
now in course of construction. Fif
teen are battleships, twelve first class
cruisers, nine second-class cruisers
ten third-class cruisers, six twin
screw gunboats, fifty-six torpedo
boats, eight light draft gunboats, and
one royal yacht. Many of these are
nearly completed. '
The old '49 ers" in their snug
cabins in "the glorious climate of
California" have fonder memories to
recall than will the returning "98
ers," minus a few toes and ears and
the memory of the thermomeier fifty
degrees below.
An emotional Madrid editor says
he can almost almire Speaker Reed
in spite of the fact that he is a
Yankee. That editor is doomed to
be'surpnsed when the Republicans of
the house are ready to move in
Cuban matters.
' The town of Holguin, in Eastern
Cuba, reported captured by the in
surgents, had a population of 6,600
before the war. It is safe to allow a
large reduction in the present nnni
ber of inhabitants.
The French ceputie3. have been
throwing ink bottles at each other.
This is more terrible than the French
duel according to the code.
NEWS NOTES.
Saturday's Dally.
The Teller resolution passed the sen
ate bv a decisive majority yesterday.'
The total insurance on the Great East
ern block, that burned the other day in
Spokane, is 134,525.
Information has been received that
Marry Ellen Lease, of Kansas, will
speak in Walla Walla sometime in
March.
A burglar ransacked H. A. Prescott'a
house in New Whatcom last-' Tuesday,
but only took a email silver watch of
little value.
Reports received this morning state
that the steamship Corona, bound for
Alaska, has been wrecked. All the pas
sengers have been saved. Further par
ticulars could not be learned.
F.N. Harris has been held . in ' $2500
bonds in Colfax to answer the charge of
having fleeced Farmer Mills, of .Whit
man county. v
. The poatoffice at Oswego, Or., was
robbed yesterday evening. "Bat seven
dollars in cash was secured and about
fifty dollars in stamps and merchandise.
Representative Ellis is very much in
earnest in having some resolutions
brought before the house which will
eive him an opportunity to give vent to
bis sentiments for free Cuba, He is not
alone in this, as many other members of
the house on the Republican side are
verv restless on account of the restraint
in which they are held by the speaker
and the house managers.
Ed Bangs was giyen a preliminary ex
amination before Justice Wheeler at
Engene yesterday, on a charge of rape,
and was bound over in the cum of $1000
to appear before the grand jury. The
complaining witness is Mae Gilliam, 17
years old, and the crime is alleged to
have been committed Tuesday night.
Tbe lioate Thursday finally succeeded
in passing tho Indian appropriation bill,
an. I the political debate, which has been
raging Bince Monday, was transferred to
tbe District of Columbia bill, which fol
lowed it. The only two important
changes made in tbe Indian bill, as pro
posed, were the elimination of the pro
visions for the leasing of the gilsomte
mines and lands of the Kicwa, Co
manche, Aprche and Wichita reserva
tions, both of which went out cn points
of order.
Monday's Dally.
The Havana treaty still lacks one or
two votes, but it is reported to be gain
ing strength.
Reports received this morr.ing state
that the government relief expedition
will leave Vancouver today.
T. H. Curtis has been appointed ap
pointed manager and John McGuire
Euperintendant of the Astoria railroad.
President McKinley opened the Cali
fornia Jubilee at 11 o'clock Saturday
night, by pressing the button in Wash
ington. .
Hundreds of delegates to the Repub
lican League convention are expected in
Portland today. It will undoubtedly be
one of the largest that has ever been in
tbe state.
Tuesday's Dally. (
Latest reports state that France is
reaay to aid the canse of the Cubans.
The steamer Elder has been delayed
by storms on the coast, end cannot sail
lor Alaska tonight, as was intended. .
The Teller resolution is buried in the
house by fifty votes majority. Oregon's
delegates are standing with the victori
ous. A. Ockerman, tbe Portland druggist
who left some time ago with a consider
able amount of uoney belonging to the
Portland lodge of Eiks, has been cap
tured in British Columbia and brought
back to Portland. At present he is in
jail at that place.
Captain Ray, who was seot to the
Yukon by the United States government
to investigate the condition of tbe
Alaska miners, confirms the reports of
starvation and lawlessness. He states
that the miners are in need of aid,-and
the sooner the relief expedition reaches
Dawson the better.
- In a recent letter from. Washington,
D. C, to an old friend, Major, G. Ai
Stnder, for twenty years United States
Consul at Singapore, says : ''While at
Des Moines I became acqainted with a
linimect known as Chamberlain's Pain
Balm, which I found excellent against
rheumatism as well as against eoreness
of tbe throat and chest (giving me much
easier breathing. I had a touch of pneu
monia early this week, and two applica
tions freely applied' to the throat and
chest relieved me of it at once. I would
not be without it for anything." For
sale by Blakeley & Houghton.
SOME- EMINENT MODELS.
All tihe' artists who have made pic
tures or statues ot Ada Rehan unite in
saying' she is one of the most satisfac
tory models on record.
Susan B. Anthony was a patient
model until the portrait painter tried
to draw her out on the question of the
suffrage of women.
The most remarkable model who ever
bat to tha sculptor, J. S. Hartley, was
Irving' Morris, the actor. He sat for a
figure in. a group to be called "The Card
Players" to oblig-e Hartley and would
hold his pose for au hour at a time.
More than-once Hartley got tired ahead
of his obliging1 sitter. -
Judge Xoah. Davis was the despair of
i painter who had to put his portrait
on canvas, until the rtist thought to
speak to the jurist about Conkling".
Then Davis brightened up, began to
talk about the groat stalwart,, and the
artist was made perfectly happy by the
change in the expression of the sitter's
face:
Deceiving tbe Goat.
A flagman of a German railway was
recently told that.he would be fined if
his wife was again seen flagging' a train.
The man said' she had never done so,
and explained E6 follows: Being ill,
she asked her husband to milk the goat.
This animal- was, however, unused to
anyone but the woman herself, and the
flagman, to save trouble, dressed in his
wife's- clothes to deceive the goat, A
Bbrill whistle reminded him, of his du
ties, and he saluted the passing1 express
in skirts.
Try Schilling Best tea. and baking powacr
mm c
fl Woman's Strong GonsfiMion Wrecked.
Effects of a Treacherous Disease.
A VcnderfisI Case.
From the Bulletin, Monroe, La.
Mrs. Stephen Bobbins is the wife of a
prominent farmer living on a large and well
kept plantation just at the edge of Monroe,
La. They have resided in this community'
but two years, having moved here from Illi
nois. The change was made for the benefit
of Mrs. Bobbins' health, her physicians hav
ing advised her that it was the only hope of
her ever regaining her lost health.
"Three years ago this last winter," said
Mrs. Bobbins, "1 was very sick with that
most treacherous disease, the grippe. I had
a very severe time with it, but was able to
get out after being confined to my home
several weeks. 1 think I went out too
soon, for I immediately contracted a cold
and had A relanse. 'which is a common occur.
rence with that disease. For several more
weeks I was confined to the bouse; and after
this I did not fully recover until recently.
I was able to get out again, but I was quite
a different woman.
" My former strong constitution was wreck
ed, and I was a dwindling moss of skin
and bones. My blood was thin and 1 had
grown pale and sallow. My lungs were so
affected that I thought I was going into con
sumption. During my illness I had lost thirty
pounds in weight. I tried to regain my
strength and former good health by trying
different medicines and physicians, but noth
ing seemed to help me. My appetite was
gone, and when I ate the food it would not
stay on my stomach.
"The only thing my physician said for me
to do was to take a change ot climate, .and on
his advice I came here. At first I seemed
benefited, but to my sorrow it proved to be
only temporary, and in a few months I was
in my former condition. The color had left
my cheeks, I had no energy, and life was a
misery. I had become a burden to myself
and family. Finally I hnppened to read in
a newspaper, of how Dr. Williams' Pink
THE DEATHWATCH.
The Mysterious Sound That Is
the
Bngrbear of Childhood.
In 1863 I had two chums-of the name
of Sethi and Cicero Dodg-e, who lived
down in the forks of 'Coon, about four
miles below us, says a letter in Forest
and Stream. The boys were hauling
wood to town, and they told mc that the
woods down in the forks were alive with
squirrels, and that if I would go back
with them that evening1 they would get
their father to let them have the next
clay off, and we would have lots of fun.
1 went borne and got my No. 14 muzzle
loader, plenty of ammunition and my
dog-, and went home with them. Fa ther
Dodg'e had built a new frame house,
but it was not large enough to accom
modate the family and any strangers, !
so Cicero and I slept out m.tlic old log
house. I shall never forget the scare
we got that night. As boys will, we lay
there a long- time discussing-the various
propositions that suggest themselves
to two bov chums who haven't seen
each other for some time. Along-;
toward midnight we thought we ?as- I
covered the presence of somebody un- j
der our bed. To make it more certain,
we distinctly heard the ticking- of his
watch. . TVe became uneasy, for the
ticking of that watch was regular awl
incessant. At last Cicero quietly slipped
out of bed, went over to the new house
and called his father, who came and in
vestigated. Much to our chagrin the
old gentleman soon discovered 1 hat the
cause of our dread and forebodings was
only a death watch at work in an old log
by the side of the bed.
MANY SLAVES TO COCAINE.
Life-DcstroxtiiK Draar Bcins More
Extensively t'sed Every nay.
According- to a Priush nieflicsl au
thority there canbe no doubt that in
many parts of the world cocaine ine
briety is largely on the increase. Many
writers-speak of it ns the third scourge
of huinanvty, alcohol and morphine be
ing the first and second. The greatest
number of victims is to be found among:
eccicty women and among' women who
have adopted literature as a profes
sion. A considerable .proportion of
chronic cocainrsts have fallen under the
dominion of the drug from a desire
to stimulate their powers of imagina
tion. : Others have acquired that habit
quite innocently from taking coel
wines fortified with salteof thealkaloid
in solution. One drug habit rapidly en
genders anothsr, and the victim of
chronic cocainism is usually addicted
to overindulgence in alcohol, besides be
ing a confirmed cigarette smoker.
Stringent measures should be taken
to stamp out an evil which if once
established, is difficult to eradicate.
Coca wiines made fronv cocaine, and
cocaine lozenges and tablets should be
supplied w.Sth the utmost caution. Coca
wine and other medicated wines are
largely sold to people1 who are con
sidered and consider themselves to be
total abstainers. Orig-inally coca wine
wis made from coca leaves, but it is
now commonly a solution of the al-1
kaloid in a sweet asu usually strong al
coholic wine.. Not long ago a physician
reported the case of a man who, think
ing to abjure the use of aJcoholie st im
ulants, drank coca .w.'me so freeOy that
he died of delirium tremens.
Choice Shoal water Bay oysters served
in every style at the Columbia Candy
Factory. Give u a trial aud we will
endeavor to please you.
Tis a Grand,
- Good Remedy
for Itch i n g Pil es. Cured
me right up. r . M.
Smith, 617 Spring etreet.
The above is a short ,
crier) testimonial, and an
honest one of Garland's
' "Happy Thoogbf'Salve.
, 50c. In jars at .
DONNELL, Tie Drmiist
it em.
Pills for Pale People had effected a miracu.
Ions cure with the same disease which a
neighbor of mine had in Illinois.
On the strength of this testimonial I de
cided at once to give the medicine a trial. I
accordingly sent for a box of Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People, and gave the
pills a thorough trial. I did not notice any
change till I had tried the second box. I
was discouraged a little with the result of
the first box, but knowing that I should not
expect a sudden cure of such a chronic case
as mine, I tried the second box with the re
sult that I immediately began getting better.
I used five boxes of these pills and was com
pletely cured, as yon see me to-day, weigh
ing more than ever before."
As evidence of the truthfulness of her
story Mrs. Bobbins volunteered to make
the" following sworn statement :
" I hereby affirm that the above statement
is every word exact and true."
" Mrs. Stephen Robbins.
"Monroe, La., March 2, 1897."
" Subscribed and sworn to before me, a
Notary Public in and for the Parish of Winn,
State of Louisiana, this the 2d day of March,
1897. Amos R. Jessitps, Notary Public."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People
contain, in a condensed form, all the ele
ments necessary to give new life and rich
ness to the blood and restore shattered nerves.
They are an unfailing specific for such dis
eases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis,
St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheuma
tism, nervous headache, the after effect of la
grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and
sallow complexions, all forms of weakness
either in male or female. Pink Pills are
sold by all dealers, or will be sent postpaid
on receipt of price, 50 cents a box, or six
boxes for $2.50 (they are never sold m bulk
or by the 100) by addressing Dr. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
THE SEASON'S STYLES.
Immense carriage hats of leghorn,
mousseline, ribbon and flowers.
Tiny edgings resembling- a turnover
collar of pique to wear with stocks.
Immense black feather trimmed hats
having a shirred brim of mousseline.
Tiny changeable taffeta caps trimmed
with plaited ruffles edged with lace.
Black chip hats faced with white and
colored straws bound with black velvet.
Wdil-brinrmed, steeple-crowned hats
having- a shirred brim with a flower
wreath. '
Collar ruffs without number and
mousseline plai tings in immense va
riety.
Satan, corselets reaching to the bust,
with large bows of two shades of rib
bon. Black chiffon parasols ornamented
with red bows or sprays of red artificial
roses.
Red birds, chiffon, flowers, quills and
ribbon in cherrv. flame and cardinal
shades. Dry Goods Economist.
Regulator Line
Tie Dalles. Portlani ni Astoria
Navigation Co.' .,
sirs. Regulator & Dalles City
FREIGHT AND PASSENGER LINE
' BETWEEN
Tbe Dalles, Hood River, Cascade locks and Port
land daily, ceit Sunday.
DOWN THE VALLEY
OR TO '
EASTERN OREGON ?
Are you going '
II so, save money and enjoy a beautiful trip on
the Columbia. The wet-bound train arrives at
The Dulles In ample tinia for pas-sewrers to take
the steamer, arriving In Portland in time lor the
outgoing Southern and Northern train; East
bound passengers arriving In The 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 Dalle. Oregon
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