DO THE SALMON EATT
Ria IdM-of What Proprietor la.
They ushered him into the editor's
sanctum. He was a tall negro, with an
oily skin as black as your coat, flat nose,
thick lips, and the shiniest of shiny, eyes
and teeth. "Is dis de editor?" he in
quired as he twirled his hat in his hand.
Notice to Fuel Consumers
mTTTl TV A T T Tin
Do salmon make- the ascent of the
Columbia to their . spawning . grounds
without taking food? We do not believe
they do ; and principally for the reason
that with the amount of vital force ex-
-L7LJ2J UjluJh&.
THE DALLES
OREGON.
BE4T0jl,
Entered at the Postofflee at The Dalles, Oregon,
as second-class matter.
STATE OFFICIALS.
The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
.. ..,iiuc. . 8. Pennoyer
Becretary of State G. W. McBnde
Treasurer fhlllip Mctschan
Supt of Public Instruction E. H. McElroy
(J. N. Dolph
enators....... jj H Mitchell
Congressman B. Hermann
State Printer -..Frank Baker
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge C. N. Thornbury
Sherllt. I. L. Cates
Clerk , J. B. Ciwucn
Treasurer Ueo. Kuch
Commissioner. l&nk'KtaSdd
Assessor John E. Bnruett
Surveyor E. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy Kholley
Coroner William Michell
OPPOSED BY OUR SERVANTS.
The following in the Monday Oregor.ian
. .froin its Salem correspondent, is a di
''j rect "slap" at all Eastern Oregon,
-and would lit the waste basket much
y better than ilfe columns of our big con
temporary :
"The passage of the portage railroad
bill in the senate has been opposed by
the Oregon delegation in congress, and
is argued for by the governor. As one
senator expressed it :" ytV
"Here is a slap at the Oregon delega
tion in congress, and the"' furthering by
a republican legislature of the political
. ' plans of our democratic governor."
"While the portage hjll gives, or is in
tended to give, reliefito the obstruction
' at the Gascades, theenefit would only
be to The DaUcs and the country tribu
tary therekr. The" main obstructions
' tj&se at The Dalles and Celilo still re-."-main
and impede navigation farther up
" the river, thus leaving the major portion
of Eastern Oregon just the same. The
bill is somewhat ambiguous, and doubts
are expressed by many memliers of the
house as to its practical utility. The
bill is still in the hands of the committee
on railways and transportation."
The fact is that while the building of
the tKjrtageroad would perhaps help The
Dalles directly more than any other lo
cality it is leneficial to all Eastern Ore
gon. The argument comes with poor
grace from the Oregonian, for if true the
building of the jetties should be aban
doned because it helps Portland more
than Eeastern Oregon, the dredging of
the Columbia should be stopped because
it helps Portland and by making the
river navigable for deep sea vessels in
jures Astoria.
Appropriations for wagon roads for
the same reason should not be made be
cause localities are benefitted, and the
new boundaries for Portland should not
be established because it makes our
metropolis larger without benefiting the
rest of the state. On the same principle
the state house should go without a
dome, because Salem citizens would see
more of it than the balance of us. - The
canal and locks should not have been
built because it benefited the Willamette
valley alone, and the catching of salmon
should be prohibited because the Colum
bia does not flow through Crook or Har
. ney county, thereby depriving the good
citizens of those counties of their proper
.share of the fish. The canal and locks
at the Cascades should not be fin
ished because the river is not nava;
gable from The Dalles to Celilo, and
nothing should be done at that point be
cause the river is not open at the Cas
cades. There is a large portion of Ore
gon lying east of the mouth of the Wil
lamette river, and our legislators might
as well acknowledge the fact. There is
no politics in the matter, and as for be
ing a slap at our delegation all we can
say is that they need it. For fifteen
years we have waited on political prom
ises made by both political parties, and
we are tired of delay and hopeless of re
lief except through state aid. If the ef
fort to help ourselves is distasteful to
the delegation they can either put up
with it or resign, and this remark ap
plies to this or any succeeding delegation
regardless of politics. If we are not to
help ourselves for fear of offending our
public servants, then we had better dis
charge them and do our own housework.
The Australian ballot bill is causing
the warmest fight of the session. It
passed the house, and went through the
senate with a rider in the shape of an
amendment which virtually puts the
primaries in Portland in the hanls of
the police. The house failed to concur
in the amendments and a conference will
beheld. It has been demonstrated that
Simon can command sixteen votes in the
senate and it is therefore pretty certain
that the Australian ballot system will be
adopted with its amendments, or it will
not be adopted at all. The bill was
well circulated before the last election,
and both parties were pledged to its
adoption. We cannot understand how
any member of the legislature can juggle
with his conscience by insisting on the
amendments, but'they can all the same,
and will.
Representative.Xhomas' bill appropri
ating $16,000 for the benefit of the state
militia has passed the house, and it is to
be hoped will pass the senate. Either
the state must provide for its militia or
it must disband it. It is now in good
shape and should be fostered. The ex
pense is trifling and the possible benefits
to the state enormous. It - forms a
nacleus around which an army can soon
be formed, and each of its members be
utilized as a drill master. The state
cannot afford to be without a militia sys
tem, and therefore it cannot afford to
kill the appropriation for their mainte
nance.
pnnuni in ascending four or five hundred,
or perhaps a thousand miles of swift
current, the force would be exhausted,
the fuel would give out. It does not
seem reasonable that these fish can
accomplish the journey,, with no greater
amount of fuel than is contained in the
fat of their bodies. Besides, is it not
remarkable to say the least, that these
fish would deny themselves food while
in the Columbia, yet take it greedily the
moment they have passed out of it into
its tributaries? . They take bait readily
at the Willamette falls, and in the Sandy,
Hood River and Deschutes are suffi
ciently ravenous to furnish good sport for
the angler. On the face of the affair the
theory of total abstinence from food
while in the Columbia, is untenable;
for why should they refuse food in the
Columbia, yet seek it eagerly the
moment they are out of it, as they cer
tainly do? We believe they take food
while on their way up the river, and
that this food is of such a nature that its
presence in the stomach of the fish is not
easily detected ; and therefore, an erron
eous idea has gained credence that they
do not eat. If any one will take a bucket
of Columbia river water and strain it
through a cloth, we think he will make
a discovery which will probably cause a
doubt of the non-eating theory. Years
ago while employed in teaching school
on Sauvie's island, we noticed one of
Hilt. Bonser's little girls straining a
bucket of water (brought from the Col
umbia for the school children to drink)
through a cloth. . Our curiosity was
aroused, as the water was to all appear
ances, clear and pure, and we could not
understand why it should be strained.
We understood better when . she got
through, for the cloth contained at least
two tablespoons full of small perfectly
transparent, jelly-like fish, each from a
half to three quarters of an inch in length
and shaped like a pike minnow. In the
water they were perfectly invisible, yet
they were there numerously. These we
believe furnish food for the salmon on
their run up the Columbia, and their
absence in some of the tributaries cause
the fish to seek other food. We imagine
that these minature "water color" fishes
would be easily digested, and that while
furnishing the motive power to the
salmon, their presence in its- stomach
would easily escape detection. The
total abstinence theory is untenable, and
we believe that an examination of the
subject will disclose the fact that the
salmon find an abundance of food in the
invisible little , "small fry," which the
school children of Sauvie's island objected
to in their drink.
Alliance Objects.
The object ofjthe Washington Farmers'
Alliance as set forth in the constitution
and by-laws is as. follows :
To unite the farmers of the state for
the promotion of their interest, socially,
intellectually and financially.
To secure the enactment of laws to
regulate the inter-state commerce and to
establish equitable relations between the
people and the roads, making the rights
and duties of each depend not upon !
doubtful discretion, but upon positive
enactment.
To secure the enactment and enforce
ment of laws prohibiting the use of free
passes by public officials.
To demand that taxation, corporate
and individual, shall be) equalized, to
the end that the burdens of government
may be equitably borne by all who en
joy its protection.
To urge such changes in the constitu- !
tion as may be necessary to make the
office of United States senator elective,
to the end these high offices may become
really representative of the people and
cease to be representative merely of
state and capital factions and state
capital bargains.
The scope and purposes of the Far
mers' Alliance, it will be observed are
broad. No question which affects the
agricultural interests of the country,
whether social, intellectual, financial or
economic side, is foreign to it. It real
izes and urges the necessity of an educa
tion for our boys and girls which shall
be based on moral, intellectual and man
ual training and shall inculcate the
essential dignity and necessity of honest
labor. It recognizes the fact no calling
requires a broader range of prastical
thought and training than does the suc
cessful farming of today. It feels that
no farmers home can afford to be with
out a liberal supply of the best moral,
scientific, agricultural and political litera
ture of the times. It feels that with
such Bupply, and by means of intelligent
discussion of those topics, it , will be
possible to make every farmer's home a
school house, every mother a teacher,
inculcating a home training, shall retain
the boys and girls on the farm by mak
ing farm life desirable in an economic
sense, as well as satisfying to the higher
social and intellectual demands which
the young do, and the old should, cher
ish. It urges and provides for the dis
cussing questions of broad, methods of
treatment, cost of production, facilities
of transit and exchange, supply and de
mand, and a host of others which the
quickened thought of the times is press
ing upon the attention of all who desire
to keep abreast of the world's progress,
Soap made from corn is promised.
uowaouuuniiwuiniiwag. '
"Well, boss, I wants to get job," be
aid.
"What is your business?"
The old negro drew himself np to his
full height and answered: "Ise been de
proprietor ob de New leans ' Piccynne
fo twenty years."
"Oh, you have been proprietor of The
New Orleans Picayune for twenty years,
have you?"
"Yes, Bah."
"Well, I suppose you wrote the editor
ials then."
"Oh, no, sah; we had de editors for to
dodat."
"Yes? Perhaps, then, you gathered
the news?" '
"No, sah, de reporters did dat."
"Yon read the proof then, very
likely."
"Oh, no, no, no, sah, we had de proof
readers for to do dat."
The editor became amused at the old
darky, and determined to see in what
position his boasted proprietorship would
land him, so he questioned him in re
gard to the various positions right down
the list, and still his function remained
undiscovered.
"Well," he was finally asked, "what
was your position?" '
He hesitated a moment and then an
swered in the most impressive voice he
could command:
'Til tell you what, boss, if you wants
to get some one to oil de joints ob you
engine down sta'rs, I ken do it better
dan any man in town." New York
Tribune. '
George W. Chllds on Vocation.
My rule has been to follow faithfully
that line of business for which I felt the
consciousness of being adapted. In this
view I selected the newspaper, and. to it
I devote my time and talents. I follow
out the one line of business pursuit
rather than engage in many. A few
days ago certain gentlemen came to me
to ask me to engage with them in the
line of banking. "I am not a banker,"
said L "I am a newspaper man."
"But," they persisted, "we do not ask
for your time, but only your name, and
the use of your name to us will be worth
$100,000 a year to yon." I did not, how
ever, accede to their request. I had no
inclination to engage with them in the
pursuit of banking, because it was out
Bide of my line, and having more than
enough money to meet my modest neces
sities, and without a child in the world,
I did not feel like taking $100,000 each
year for doing nothing to earn it.
The great trouble with mankind is to
stick to that pursuit of which they have
knowledge. Some men get strangely
mixed np. I happen to know a banker
in this town, with good general informa
tion, but with no aptitude for banking.
Yet he plods along in his line, acquiring
nothing, you may say, and at times the
necessities of his business have com
pelled him to raise money on the family
plate. Now, he is out of his line, and
will fail, probably, until he finds that
which is his real bent and gravitates to
it Interview in Cincinnati Enquirer.
Books Made of Clay.
Far away beyond the plains of Meso
potamia, on the banks of the river Tigris,
lies the ruins of the ancient city of Nine
veh. Not long since huge mounds of
earth and stone marked the place where
the palaces and walls of the proud capital
of the great Assyrian empire stood. The
spade and scraper, first of the French
and then of the English, have cleared all
the earth away and laid bare all that re
mains of the old streets and palaces where
the proud princes of Assyria walked and
lived. . The gods they worshiped and
the books they read have all been revealed
to the sight of a wondering world.
The most curious of all the curious
things preserved in this wonderful man
ner are the clay books of Nineveh. The
chief library of the city was contained in
the palace of Kanyunjik. The clay books
which composed its contents were sets of
tablets covered with very small letters.
The tablets are all oblong in shape, and
when several of them are used for one
book the first line of the tablet following
was written at the end of the one pre
ceding it. The writing was done when
the clay of the tablet was soft; it was
then baked to harden it. Each tablet was
numbered just as librarians of today
number the books of which they have
charge. St. Louis Republic.
The Abase of Letter.
The way the letter "a" is being dis
torted and abused nowadays is shameful.
Judging from the pronunciation affected
by actors and anglomaniacs the poor
little letter has only one sound, and that
the mushy la de da Italian variety, des
ignated in Webster's Dictionary by two
little dots over the vowel. I went to a
theatre the other night, and heard a girl
sing a song in which she had something
to say about a mash she called it
"mosh" and a hat, which she pro
nounced as we do the adjective applied
to the business end of a poker in active
use. In the course of her ditty she had
occasion to use the words man, grand,
fashion, habit, and answer, dash and
mantel, all of which she pronounced in
the same manner. I would like to know
where this thing is going to end. Inter
view in St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A Terrible Task.
Dolly Have you spoken to papa about
our our engagement?
Cholly Yeth, and he t wealed me with
pawsitive bwntality.
Dolly Poor, dear boyt What did he
Bay?
Cholly Said he'd have nothing to do
with a fellah that couldn't thwink for
himself. The ideal Thwinking is such
beastly, common, hard ' -work. Pitta
burg Bulletin. . .
Water which contains impurities will
turn milky white when nitrate of silver
is dissolved in it If "chemically pure"
there will be but a trifling discoloration.
Have on hand a lot of
Fir and
Hard Wood.
Also a lot of
ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY.
Office corner
Third and Union Streets,
SNIPES &. KENERSIiEY,
Wholesale ani Retail Druggists.
Fine Imported, Key West and Domestic
. CIGARS.
(AGENTS FORI
EST'D tiF 1862.
(J.E. BiYAD JO.,
Heal Estate,
Insurance,
and Loan
AGENCY.
Opefsk House Bloek,3d St.
-FOR-
Carpets ami Furniture,
CO TO
PRINZ & NITSCHKE,
And be Satisfied as to
QUALITY AND PRICES.
W. E. GARRETSON,
Leailiag Jeweler.
- SOLE AGENT FOB THK
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry Made to Order.
138 Second St., The Dalle, Or.
REMOVAL.
H. Glenn has removed his
office and the office of the
Electric Light Co. to 72
Washington St.
l '-t?:.-.r,.",L J
the head of navigation on
is a thriving, prosperous
ITS TERRITORY.
It is the supply city for an extensive and rich agri
cultural and grazing country, its trade reaching as
far south as Summer Xake, a distance of over twe
hundred miles. '
THE LARGEST
The rich grazing country
of the the Cascades furnishes pasture for thousands
of sheep, the wool from which finds market here.
The Dalles is the largest
point in America, about
shipped this year.
THE VINEYARD OF OREGON-."
The country near The Dalles produces splendid
crops of cereals, and its fruits cannot be excelled. It
is the vineyard of Oregon, its grapes equalling Cali
fornia's best, and its other fruits, apples, pears.
prunes, cherries etc., are unsurpassed.
ITS PRODUCTS.
The salmon fisheries are the finest on the Columbia,
yielding this year a revenue of $1,500,000 which can
and will be more than doubled in the near future.
The products of the beautiful Klickital valley find
market here, and the country south and east has this
year filled the warehouses, and all available storage
places to overflowing with their products.
ITS WEALTH
It is the richest city of its size on the coast, and its
money is scattered over and is being used to develop,
more farming country than
city in Eastern Oregon. .
Its situation is unsurpassed! Its climate delight
ful! Its possibilities incalculable! Its resources
limited! And on these corner stones she stands.
: For the Best Brands and Purest Quality of Wines and Liquors, go to :
JO. MMCK,
Ul?ole5ale : Ijquor : Dealer,
171 SECOND STREET,
S. L. YOUNG,
(Successor to E.' BECK.)
-DEALER IN-
watches; clocks,
Jewelry, Diamonds,
SMEflWflHE, :-: ETC
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
Repaired and Warranted.
165 Second St.. The Dalles, Or.
John Pashek,
IQerCiiaoj Tailor.
Third Street, Opera Block.
Madison's Latest System,
' Used in cutting; garments, 'and a fit
guaranteed each time.
Repairing and Cleaning
Neatly and Quickly Done.
the Middle Columbia, and
city.
WOOL MARKET.
along the eastern slope
original wool shipping
5,000,000 pounds being
is tributary to any other
es unAJ
THE DALLES, OREGON.
The successful merchant is
the one who watches the mar
kets and buysto the best advan
tage. The most prosperous family is
the one that takes advantage of
low prices.
The Dalles
MERCANTILE 00.,
Successor to
BROOKS & BEERS.
will sell yon choice
Groceries and Provisions
OF ALL KINDS, AND
4aidauate
AT MORE EEASONABLE9 BATES
THAN ANT OTHER PLAC8
' IN THE CITT.
REMEMBER we deliver all pur
chases without charge.
390 AND 394 SECOND STREET.
FINE FARM TO RENOT.
THE FARM KNOWN AS THE "MOORE
Farm" situated on Three Mile creek about
two and one-half miles from The Dalles, wilUafcf
leased for one or more years at a low rent to C a
responsible tenant This farm has upon
good dwelling house and necessary out build
ings, about two acres of orchard, aborft three
hundred acres under cultivation, a large portion
of the land will raise a good volunteer wheat
crop in lil with ordinarily favorable weather.
The farm is well watered. For terms and particu
lars enquire of Mrs. Sarah A. Moore or attheWTioa
of Mays, Huntington fc Wilson, The Dalles Or.
SARAH A. MOORE, Executrix.