THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 31 ,1898
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AMERICAS INVASION.
Suddenly it has come upon the
older Dations that American invasion
is not confined to armed legions and
invincible sea fighters. The old
world is complaining of the invasion
of the army of American commercial
men. Apparently the discovery is a
recent one, but in reality the inva
sion began long ago. It began when
the steam engine was perfected, wben
the cottin gin made possible the pro
duction of unlimited quantities of
cheap cloths, when the mechanical
genius of the versatile Yankee was
given full swing.
The advance of America in me
chanical arts has been as resistless as
the march of the legions of Alexan
der. By the arts of war he made his
nation the foremost of the world. By
skill in the arts of peace the new con
tinent, the great, republic of modern
history is taking her rightful place in
the world's marts. It is due first to
the wonderful opportunities given
men of an inventive turn of mind.
Every inducement is offered for ap
pliances which will lessen the cost of
labor. Time saving is also a great
desideratum in this bustling nation
of ours. Where other nations expend
weeks in the perfection of manufac
tured products it has been the aim of
American producers to turn a lever
and take from one end in a few hours
the perfected article which was raw
material at' the other end of the ma
chinery. Another matter which aids the
more constant use of machinery is the
approbation of the! laboring classes,
which in Ameiica have learned that
mccbanical appliances are not the
foes of the workingman. In the older
countries the introduction of a de
vice which temporarily deprives a
considerable number of men and
jromen of their accustomed employ
Tirent is looked upon as a curse. It
' is within the memery of children that
.-such introduction has led to riots
- even in this country, but it is gradual
ly becoming apparent that machines
aibich may be operated with few
workmen make less probable the
danger of competition from foreign
manufactures, wbo are compelled to
figure in vast pay rolls. This is a
nation of skilled mechanics, artists in
their particular lines, who conceive
oew patterns, intuitively calculate to
the pound the strain which iron and
steel will be asked to bear and em.
ploy a minimum of metal to supply
the strength. New methods are used
in the packing houses, latest designs
are followed in the textiles, the best
of materials are put into steel rails,
until the old world has been cotu
. pelled to recognize that an article
stamped with the characters "U. S.
A." is the best and in the long run
the cheapest.
America is invading the trade tf
Enrnne Vpr&uav nf annprinritv in
material and methods, and can not be
driven from the field so long as her
workmen employ their inherited and
Acquired intelligence in turning out
the manufactured article from su
perior raw material. Spokesman Re
view.. Now that Astoria's cbamberaof com
merce and Progressive Commercial
Association have formerly resolved
for an open Columbia river the peo
ple of Astoria should pnite their ef
forts and work for an open river
without cessation until the products
of the great Inland Empire flow down
the Snake and Columbia rivers into
her lap in endless profusion. Astoria
has been indolent on the open river
question for lo, these many years,
; while all the time pretending that
she possessed advantages as a com
mercial center. The only salvation
for Astoria is an open river and it is
to be hoped that the people of that
town have at last awakened to it and
resolved to cease chasing chimeras
'.ions, and lend their efforts
to ; .-ujlishing something that will
not only benefit Astoria but the peo
pie of three great states. We only
succeed when we accomplish some
thing for others as well as for our
selves. No community of people
can hope to make themselves prosper
ous and progressive unless their pro
jects hold out inducements and cover
the welfare of others as well as that
of themselves- E. O.
WHAT. ABOUT THE PACIFIC
COASTl
The attention of those who are op
posed to expansion is called to the
following expressions made in former
years by rcen who were then the
rrpatest minds of the times; but
whom history has proven to have
fallen far short as regards their pro
phetic powers, and who lived to see
the error of their judgment :
Daniel Webster said in regard
the Pacific coast :
to
"What do we want with the vast
worthless area, this region of sages
and wild beasts, of deserts, of shift
ing sands and whirlwinds of dust, of
cactus and prairie dogs? To what
use could we ever hope to put these
great deserts, or these needless moun
tain ranges, impenetrable, and covered
to their base with eternal snow?
What can we hope to do with the
weEtern coast, a coast of three thous
and miles, rock-bcund, cheerless, un
inviting and not a harbor on it?
What use have we for such a country ?
Mr. President, I will never vote
cent from the public treasury to place
the Pacific coast one inch nearer to
Boston than it is now."
Senator ThosH. Benton of Mis
souri in a speech in 1825, said in re
ferring to Oregon, "The ridge of the
Rocky mountains maybe named as a
convenient, natural and everlasting
boundary. Along this ridge of the
western limit of the republic should
be drawn and the statue of the fabled
god Terminus should be erected on
its highest peak, never to be thrown
down. I would not give a picayune
for all the country west of the Rocky
mountains."
Senator McDuffy said in a speech
on the 25th of January in 1843: "I
wish the Rocky mountains were an
impassable barrier. If this were a"n
enbankment of even five feet to be
removed, I would not consent to ex
pend five dollars to remove it. I
would not give a pinch of snuff for
the whole territory, an J I thank God
for his mercy in placing the Rocky
mountains there." -
Senator Dayton of New Jersey in
1844 in the discussion of the Oregon
boundary question said : "With the
exception of land along 'the Wil
lamette and strips along the water
courses, the whole country is as in-
aclaimable as the Desert of Sahara. I
have no faith in the unlimited exten
sion of this government, and God
forbid that the time should ever come
wben a state on the shores of the
Pacific, with its interests and tenden
cies of trade are looking toward
Asiatic nations of the east. We are
near enough to the remote nations of
the Orient already."
The National Intelligencer about
the same date republished from the
Louisville Journal and sanctioned its
sentiments as follows: ."Of all the
countries upon the face of the earth,
Oregon is one of the least favored by
heaven. It is the mere riddlings of
creation. It is almost as barren as
Sahara, and as unhealthy as the
Campagna of Italy. Russia has her
Siberia, England her Botany Bay and
if the United States should ever need
a country to which to banish rogues
and scoundrels, the utility of such a
region as Oregon would be demon
strated. And now we "rogues and scoun
drels" of the "riddlings of creation"
ask: ;
What of the Pacific coast to-
DAT?
CHRISTMAS IN NEW AMERICA
Christmas of 1898 finds the United
States in a mood which is in especial
harmony with the associations con
nected with the day. Yesterday a
paper was placed in the president's
hands which advances the United
Stales a long step among the great
nations of the world and extends the
benefits of the highest form of civili
zation to lands in which it has been
unknown hitherto. ' This is the treaty
of peace with Spain, by which the
country's power and influence is ex-
tended over portions of the earth;
heretofore outside of the scope of our
authority, which increases our in
fluence among the great nations of
the world and places within our con
trol people who along to this time
had never felt a guidance which was
potent and beneficent. ' To our new
possessions, heathen as well as
Christian, this anniversity hereafter
will have a particular claim to their
grateful remembrance. The com
pact which has just been received in
this country will to them be a charter
of liberty. It will advance them in
the .social and political scale, give
them a connection with the greatest
and most progressive nations in the
world and make life better worth
living.
Thus the social developments and
tendencies which find their culmina
tion and fruitage iu the instrument
which has just reached Washington
are in unison with the sentiments and
traditions of the season. It is a
tiiumpi of peace and progress. As
often before in the past, war has
brought political quietude and ad
vancement. Rome's sway over the
barbarous and semi-barbarous peo
ples ot eighteen or twenty centuries
ago brought a peace which the world
of antiquity had not known until
then. England's role has, . through
out large regions of Asia and Africa,
introduced tranquillity where hither
to there had been the petty but con
tinuous and demoralizing strife of
tribes and races which bad no purpose
except despoilment and destruction,
The United States has established
quietude in the Philippines, which
have been in a condition of rebellion
for many decades, and lias ended the
uprisings which have been under way
in Cuba, with but short intermis
sions, since early in the century. To
day, for the first Christmas season in
many rears, all over the world the
gates of the temple of Janus are shut.
To America, therefore, in its old
and in its new boundaries, this day
will have new claims to popular re
membrance. It finds the United
States covering a larger place on the
map than it ever filled before. It
sees the country weilding a greater
influence among the nations than it
possessed in the past. All over the
world there are talks of alliances in
which the United States is assumed
to be one of the partners. The
country is, to all the other nations,
an object of an interest never aroused
in the past. Every nation is anxious
to be on terms of the closest friend
ship with it.. The opposition which
was manifested at first toward its ex
pansion in the Pacific has entirely dis-
ppeared. The jealousies and rival
ries which are felt by the principal
European nations for each other are
not manifested by any of them
toward the United States. No na
tion in history was ever the object of
a higher regard than is shown every
where for this country at the present
time. Despite the occasional out
bursts of pessimists here and there in
Europe the world recognizes that the
influence of the United States, in its
new relations even more i than in its
old, will be exerted in the direction
of peace. . No country has any ter
ritory which wc covet. There is not
anywhere on the earth a nation with
which we would change places. In
the spirit 4f Lincoln's words, "with
malice toward none, with charity for
all,' the United States is spreading
the blessings of civilization and en
lightenment among the races of the
earth, and never was its mission of
peace-preserver and civihzer so wide
ly and gratefully recognized as it is
today. Globe Democrat.
According to letters received from
Manila Admiral Dewey's cabin on
the Olympia bids fair to be filled to
overflowing with the gifts of Aguin
aldo, who has the greatest admiration
and respect for the admiral. He has
formed the habit of making an
elaborate present to Dewey every
tiuij the latter "calls him down." In
all the dealings Admiral Dewey has
had with Aguinaldo he has treated
him with the greatest courtesy when
courtesy was called for, and with the
greatest severity when firmness was
the thing; but in spite of the rebuffs,
Aguinaldo's notes accompanying the
presents invariably refer to the ad
miral as "my honorable and illustri
ous friend."
FOR OREGON HORSES
Four-Fifths of Those Now on the Bange
Will Starve.
It is not likely that such bands of
wild horses as are found on the range
of Eastern Oregon today will be seen in
the spring. Many will starve this win
ter, as there ia grass enough for only a
email fraction of the thousands tbat are
there. The snow covers the grass for
several months, and those that survive
will be in very poor condition.
Said an Eastern Oregon cattleman this
morning : "I believe fonr fifths of the
horses running on Eastern Oregon
ranges wHI starve to death this winter.
In most cases the owners, or those
whose brands the horses bear, do not
consider the Btoctc of sufficient valno to
feed through the winter. Everyone
knows that a horse to bring any price
nowadays mast show style and have
some blood that counts. These animals
are of a mongrel breed, and would not
cell for anything except at the cannery,
and there they would bring only abont
$2.60 a head scarcely enough to pay
for rounding them up and putting them
on the cars.
"These horses, some of them several
years old, do not know the feeling of a
bridle. Most of them have been round
ed up and branded at some time, but
that is the sum total of their experience
with man, and tbev are perfect fiends
to break. Consequently they are re
garded as of little value by their owner? ,
and small effort will be made to keep
them from starving.
Looking at it from the cattlemen's
etand point it will be a blessing when
these horses are gone. They consume
great quantities of grass which the
stockmen think sbonld be reserved for
the cattle. Of course it will be cruel to
let lbem starve to death, but there
seems to be no way out of the difficulty,
as there is scarcely enough hay in the
country to feed all the horses and have
enough left for the other stock.
"A great deal of trouble is being ex
perienced in keeping the horses out of
the fenced pastures that are being re
served for cattle and sheep, as the horses
can get over or through almost any kind
of a fence. Even if the winter should
prove a mild one I do not look for many
of the horses to survive, as they are in
such poor condition now that few of
them will be able to live until the grass
starts up in the spring." Telegram.
The Wheat Trade.
The .Commercial Review, published in
Portland, ought to be good authority on
the wheat question. Yesterday's issue
says:
The local market .has been inactive
throughout the week, and few sales were
consummated, the principal cause being
the holiday festivities. But no doubt
prices quoted are the principal cause of
the absence of trading. Holders have
been reserved in their offers, and while
satisfied from a survey of the world's
markets that local exporters pay fully
all the market will etand, yet, having
confidence tbat there most in time be a
reaction in tboir favor, seemed deter
mined to hold as long as they can
finance their holdings; and it must be
conceded that the bulk of the wheat in
the country is In strong hands and will
be drawn ont only by a material ad
vance in prices. For round parcels of
fair average club, 60c per bushel is given
as a nominal quotation, representing its
full export value from this port. Valley
ia in ligbt export demand, and sales few
and far between ; 62c is probably its
market value; blueetem finds fair de
mand at 62c per bushel. Exporters are
in the market at about figures quoted
above, but what boslness they do is en
tirely for future wants, as there is ab
solutely no need of wheat for the loading
of chartered fleet, which is working as
rapidly as possible. The milling de
mand is very much curtailed, owing to
the unreinuneratire sale of flour, and
the inquiry for the manufactured article
is so slow that no encouragement is of
fered to free buying. Since our last re
view six vessels cleared, five with wheat
and one with flour, carrying over 350,-
000 centals of wheat and 27,953 barrels
of flour.
Regarding the eastern market it says:
There ' was a good trade in wheat the
past week, the market ruling quite ani
mated at higher prices, with part of the
gain maintained at the close, showing
c advance, with May closing at 70c,
and July closing at 6868c. The
conditions surrounding the market were
not particularly different from those
prevalent the closing days of the week
preceding. Local sentiment in Chicago
was decidedly bullish at the start, the
Argentine crop still proving an import
ant factor. Foreign markets, both Eng
lish and continental, were strong and
higher.
NOTICE.
Came to my place in May, one bay
mare, weight about -960 pounds, and
branded with a capital A, the cross line
of the letter resembling the letter v, on
the left shoulder. Owner can bave the
ame by calling at my place and paying
all charges. . B. E. Selleck,
16declm Boyd, Oregon.
Cash In Your Cheeks.
All countv warrants registered prior
to Feb. 1, 1895, will - be paid at my
office. Interest ceases after Nov. 14,
1898. C. L. Philups,
County Treasurer.
DUBIOUS
liine of
No. 7 Woodland ., k stove I..........;....... $ 7 50
No. 8 " ; 850
No. 8 Wood Garlai jr., cook stove .... 15.00
No. 8 Wood Garland, jr., reservoir and base 25.00
No. 8 Bridal Garland ..... 23.00
No. 8 Bridal Garland and reservoir 33.00
No. 8 Home Garland cook stove 25.00
No. 8 Home Garland cook and reservoir. 35.00
No. 8 Home Garland range 40.00
No. 8 Home Garland range and reservoir.. . 45.00
No. 8 Empire Garland steel range 45.00
Also a" full line of Cole's Hot Blast Air Tight
Heaters just received.
Everybody knows that "Garland" stoves and ranges are the
world s best. They combine elegant finish, durability, and con
venience, with economy of fuel, and iu epite of all competition hold
their station lar in advance ol all others. We take pleasure iu call
ing attention to our list of stoves on hand. Sold exclusively by
MAIER & BENTON,
Si..Grooory The Dalles. Or.
THE CENTIPEDE TURNED UP.
An Awesome Presentiment Drives
New -York Woman from
Arkccsas.
A New York woman, who lately
returned from the Arkansas hot
springs, is excited over what appears
to be a clever bit of foresight cn the
part of her guardian angel. Some
time ago she went to the springs in
search of relief from rheumatism, and
was convalescing famousiy when she
suddenly had a presentiment that she
was to be stung by one of the centi
pedes that add to the attractis of Ar
kansas resorts. There was no ground
for the conviction that haunted her.
She isn't a nervous or fanciful woman,
and she had never seen a centipede;
but she lived in mortal fear day and
night. The physician said "nerves,"
and the woman reasoned with herself
and proved to herself a-hundred times
a day that she was in no mere danger
from centipedes than from tigers, but
all the same she couldn't shake off the
fear.
Everyone in the hotel knew of her
conviction and laugnea at it. fcne
laughed at it herself in a tremulous
way. Finally the ansiety began to tell
apon her health, and her daughter in
sisted that,, while there was no excuse
for the fear, it would be wiser for her
to leave the place. The woman stout
ly said no. The water was curing her
rheumatism and she wouldn't be driven
away by an absurd fancy, but atjast
one night she reached such a state of
fear that she wakened her daughter
and said she was going away by the
midnight train. She sentf or the porter
to take her trunk. When he arrived
she said:
"Joan, let that trunk alone. I'm an
idiot, and I'm not going to allow my
foolishness to control me. I won't go."
The porter departed and the poor
woman dropped back into her chair,
white as a ghost.
"I've signed my death warrant," she
said.
That was too much for the daughter,
who, being a young woman of some de
termination, sent for the porter once
more, bundled her mother up, called a
carriage, and took the midnight train
for New York, carrying a sheepish but
much-relieved mother with her. The
day after they reached here they had
a letter from the proprietor of the
hotel. He wrote that an odd thing had
happened, and that it seemed so
strange that he couldn't resist writ
ing about it. The morning after their
hasty departure, a man went into the
room at nine o'clock and found, lying
just beside the bed, the largest centi
pede that had ever been seen in that
neighborhood. There were screen in
the windows, and no one could offer
any explanation of the creature's pres
ence in the house; but there it was
lying, just where anyone, in getting
out of bed, would have put her foot
upon it. .
The story isn't a good hotel adver
tisement, but is has made one woman
a firm believer in presentiments. N.
Y.Sun.
SlOO Beirard SIOO. -
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease tbat science has been
able to cure in all its stages, and tbat is
Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the
only positive enre known to the niedieu!
fraternity. Catarrh bein a -ot?i.itu-tional
disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the disease
and giving the patient strength by build
ing up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The 'proprie
tors bave so much faith in its curative
pofTirs, that they offer One Hundred
Do lars for any case that it fails to enre.
Send for list of testimonials. Address,
F. J. Cheney, & Co., Toleda, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Jast
Received.
CARE OF THE FINGER NAILS.
They Can Be Kept In Perfect Condi
tion with Little Trouble When ,
Resjalarlr Attended To.
A few minutes given every day, once
the nails are properly treated, will
keep them firm and exquisite in color.
After the- hands are washed each
morning use the nail brush thoroug
ly, and then when they are quite dr;?
push back, very gently, the skin that,
is inclined to grow up around thi
edges of the nails. Under no circumJ
stances use a steel point to push back '
this skin, and do not cut it away as the
professionalmanicures are apt to do..
While the nail is still moist use the
point of a file to remove any dust or
specks that the brush has neglected,
and then, with nail scissors, sharpr
curved and kept for this purpose only,
cut the nails in a shape that suits your
finger tips. The ridiculously long nail,
which looks like a claw, is entirely out
of fashion. Use the file to make
smooth the rough edges left fcy the
scissors, and then. take the least little
bit of red nail paste and smear the
tiniest morsel on each of the nails.
Don't let it get into the edges or roots,
fer it is only intended as a sort of oil
to keep the nails soft and to prevent
their growing horny; then sprinkle
a pinch of powder on the polisher and .
rub each nail with a quick, even stroke
that will result in giving it a bright- ;
ness that is refined looking, but not u
brilliancy that suggests that one only
shines at her finger tips. After this
give the hands another bath, using hot
water and a delicate soap, then close
them and rub one set of nails against
the other, achieving in this way a
proper fiaish. Ladies' Home Journal.
f "Choose your food a
you would your-guests,
for on the quality of both
depends your dinner."
Schilling s Best
tea baking powder
coffee flavoring extracts
soda and spices
guests or no guests.
13T
For sale bv
Vandugn, Adams & Co. '
Tygh Valley, Ore.
NOTICE.
Came to my place last harvest, a
brown horse, three white feet, star in
forehead, rope mark around left bind leg
above knee, branded H. S. with W over
S. (connected with the H.) Owner can
have same by proving property and
paying all charges.
. f AUGU8T FOLLMEB,
Dec. 21-i
Near Five Mile.
NORTHWESTERN TRAVELERS ABE .
North-Western" Advertisers
became
Is the Shortest and Best Route to
CHICAGO and the EAST
via
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL;
And also, the equipment cf its trains Is the most
modern of the car builders art embodying all
the luxuries, comforts and necessaries of travel.
"TEE SEW NQRTH-WESTEBH LIMITED"
(loih Century Train) ,
Ta .Wrir litrhtpri hnth inside and ont. and
equipped with handsome bulfet-smoking-libraij
car, compartment and standard sleepers, fret
chair car and modern day coach; and on which
no BXTBAFAEE is charged. It makes connec
tions at Minneapolis and St. Paul with Northen;
Pacific, Great Northern, and- "800-Pacific' '
trains; and leaves daily Minneapolis 7 80p.m.;
St. Paul 8. 10 p. in.; and arrives Chicago 9.80 a. m.
For berth reservations, rates, folders and
illustrated booklet FREE of the "Finest Train
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