The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
THE DALLK8
OREGON.
Entered at the Poo to Dice at The Dulles, Oregon,
as Keuond-cl&as mutter.
HTATK OKF1CIAXS.
Uotemui
itacretary f State
Treasurer. '
Bupt. of I'ublic Instruction
eiiators:..
Con gresninaii
State Printer
S. Pennoyer
...G. W. MciSridc
..Phillip MetHChan
E. B. McElroy
U. J!. Dolpli
jj. H. MiteheU
h. Hermann
Frank Baker
COimTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge. C. N. Thornbury
Sheriff
..D.I. Oates
CUirk
Treasurer
Commissioners
. ...J. B. Crosaen
Geo. Ruch
I H' A. Lea venw
Frank Kineald
Assessor. . John K. Harnett
Surveyor . ..E. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Publio Schools. . .Troy bhelley
Coruner William MicheU
- The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
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rress uispaicacs.
LOGIC AND MATHEMATICS.
Two days ago our evening contempor
ary told ti" of a man in Grant county
who hud "a thousand sheep on a thous
and hills, etc. We supposed that "a
thousand eheep on a thousand hills
meant a million" and that the "etc"
.meant some more that he did not count,
and -suggested that if J thfc man ' would
only ship lift wool by the Regulator, the
success of the new navigation company
would be assured. To show how com
. pletely we failed to grasp the "logic and
mathematics of the Times-Mountaineer
we cheerfully offer the explanation
given in its issue of last evening.
A "thousand sheep on a thousand
hills" signifies only one on a hill, and
not a total of a ' million sheep. Our
coteuiorary should study mathematics
,and try and comprehend the rules of
logic.
So it appear, aft or all, that the man
has only a thousand sheep, though why
he should plant one on every hill top of
the thousand hills of Grant county, is
what we cannot find out, unless, as is
quite possible, the cayotes may have got
among them and stampeded them.
We're going to study logic and mathe
matics, however, and then we'll know
all about it.
IRISH SENTIMENT CHANGING.
The Irish party in the British parlia
ment ' are manifesting a surprising
willingness to accept a local government
bill from the tories. Precisely what the
hill contemplated will grant to Ireland
is, as yet, a matter of mere conjecture,
but the chief secretary has intimated
that it will be based broadly on the
English and Scotch acts and if such is
the case it is believed that the Irish
members cannot consistently refuse to
'support it. It is contended on all hands
that Ireland cannot reasonably ask for
more liberty of action than England and
Scotland are content with and Irish
members have many times asserted
their willingness to accept the same
privileges and the same degree of local
government that England and Scotland
enjoy. To the downfall of Parnell is
generally ascribed the amazing change
of attitude of the Irish members to the
government party. It is even asserted
that Mr. Parnell has actually stood in
the way of home rule for several years
pact by reason of his refusal to accept
ny measures originated by the tories.
There is now, it is said, a wide-spread
feeling that by the downfall of Parnell
the most serious obstacle in the way of
home rule, which must come gradually
has been removed.
THE SUIl PLUS FIXES THE PRICE.
We consider it very silly indeed to at
tribute the high price of wheat that is in
prospective for the farmers of this coun
try to the MiKinley bill. There are
some things that that much talked of
Jaw cannot effect. Protective laws
may undoubtedly create a home market
and thus enhance the value of the pro
ducts of the farm but they surely cannot
effect the price of these commodities in
foreign countries. No protective law
can change the higher law of supply and
demand and it is this law s that event
ually fixes the price of wheat or any
. thing else for that matter, in the foreign
market. It is no disparagment of the
McKinley law to say that it deserves no
credit for the price of grain that is in
prospect. If the grain fields of Europe
and India had yielded as abundantly this
year as they have done in years gone by
all the protective lawB on earth would
not have very materially ; raised ' the
price of a . commodity whose former
cheapness was attributable to its over
abundauce, more than to anything else.
The man who has a thousand bushels of
wheat to sell where only five hundred is
wanted, must take what he can get
for the surplus five hundred, while the
man who has only five hundred where a
thousand is needed can name his own
price for all he has got to sell. It is the
surplus, therefore, in the markets of the
world or its absence that fixes the price
of the remainder, and this year the pros
pect now is that there is going to be no
surplus. .
A man not afraid of good honest em-
floymentcan workouts living anywhere,
f a man affirms that the world owes
him a living and sits quietly down on a
goods box or a beer keg waiting for the
liquidation of the debt, he will come to
the conclusion that the world is one of
the slowest paymasters on record.
. Royal rakes bring a lot
the surface.
of rubbish to
Editor Dallks Chboniclk, Sir : As
reform, new methods, new ideas and
general progrets seems to be the order
of the4ay, permit me to ask if it would
not be subservient of the public good if
some of this spirit of progress which has
recently been evinced in Portland, East
Portland and Albina would extend to
the Government works at the Cascades
and points above on the Columbia
River, and take supervision and control
of what has heretofore and is now, under
the direction of the Circumlocution office,
and governed by principles and methods
of "how not to do it."
It certainly appears singular that a
work the non-completion of which is a
barrier in the way of our natural ad
vancement a work i bich has had the
open door of -the United States Treasury
at its back for I am afraid to say how
long almost a generation at least is no
further advanced than it now is, and
that the people have nothing of utility
to show for the millions which have gone
into the rapacious maw of this greedy
political hobby horse.
The application of the smallest amount
of business sagacity, 'it would seem,
would solve the problem of how to bring
the question of ah open river to a sue
cessful solution.
It certainly does not appear from pres
ent indications that this generation will
see it accomplished tinder 'the present
method of working; and is is doubtful if
it ever would be done ; if there be not an
entire change in the system now em
ployed.
My idea is that the entire work, at tha
Cascades and above, can be accomplish
ed in from five to seven years, if common
sense business principles and practices
are applied to the enterprise.
The method I . would suggest, and
which to me appears perfectly feasible
is this; Let the general government
make a survey and estimate of the work
to be done, fixing and declaring the
amount of excavating and water-building
to be done, and stating in detail each
item of labor and material to be employ
ed in the prosecution of the work. After
this has been definitely settled, let the
work be done by contract. Let bids be
invited for the completion of so many
lineal feet of excavating, wall building,
or what not no award to be made for an
amount of work greater than a contrac
tor can reasonably be expected to accom
plish in a given time, say two years, and
each successful bidder to be placed under
good and sufficient bonds for the faith
ful performanci of the amount of work
awarded him. By this means the work
will be divided up and many will have
a direct pecuniary interest in the com
pletion, whereas the only object now ap
parent in the prosecution of the enter
prise is to kill time and squander the
public's money without- rendering any
thing in the way of quick progress.
I make these hasty suggestions feeling
that something should be done to expe
dite matters in this direction, either
by
the means named or otherwise, if a bet- !
ter plan should present. Patience in
connection with the work on the Upper
Columbia has long since ceased to be a
virtue, and it is high time that the
rights of the people should receive some
of the attention that they have
reason to expect from their legislators.
It may yet be that a long suffering 'peo
ple may call some one to account for ne
glect, willful or otherwise, of what they
were profuse in their promises to do
when asking the support ' of the "dear
people," whose wishes and interests
they now presume to ignore.
United effort among the people of
Eastern Oregon and Washington and
those resident upon the Columbia river
in Western Oregon and Washington can
bring to bear a remedy for the evil com
plained of, by the selection of represen
tatives to our National legislative bodies
who are known to be good men and
true, and who are pledged to make a
specialty of effort for the 'completion of
the work upon - our great water way.
Then and only then can we look tor any
thing substantial in the way of perma
nent improvement ; then dalliance will
give way to energetic labor, driven with
a purpose and in from five to seven
years at the utmost, the Columbia will
be open to commerce, from ' its mouth
into the. British possessions where the
Canadian Pacific crosses Arrow lake,
a distance of 800 miles ; thus opening to
the outside world a region of unsurpas
sed richness, at present almost unknown
except to the venturesome prospector or
trapper, and affording an uninterrupted
channel of transportation to a people
who are now denied that boon, and to
the countless prospective thousands
who will inhabit that otherwise favored
region. Digntjs Vindicb Noius,
Notice. ,
warrants - regis
October 3rd, 1889, will be paid if pres
ented at' my office.
Interest ceases from and after this date.
The Dalles, Or., July 10th 1891.
O. KlNBBSLY,
City Treasurer.
Cut flowers' for sale, "bono net a and
floral designs made to order. Corner
Eighth and Liberty.
Mas. A. Stcbling
Money to Tomn.
$100 to $500 to loan on short time.
. : Bay abd & Co.
ESTRAY NOTICE.
A- RED COW WITH WHITE 8 POTS. 8WAL-
1 V low fork in each ear but no brand, is in' ray
pasture on Mill creek. The owner can have her
by paying lor pasturage and advertising.
; j W. BIUGFELD.
MY NEIGHBOR'S BOY.
HI Natural Characteristic Js Bias
Into Numerous Difficulties. -
1 always make it a role to get along
with my neighbors, without engaging in
any belittling quarrels or. disputes with
them I will put up with a great deal-
before 1 will descend to the vulgarity of '
a quarrel with any one, and I don't in
tend having a row with any one now.
but if my neighbor's ' boy should disap
pear suddenly and uever be heard of any
more, or lr ne snouia be round witn nis
neck broken, 1 will perhaps have been
at the bottom of it all, and no honest
jury in the land will do anything with
me for it
This boy is ten years old. His name
is Horace Walpole Gladstone Smith, but
they call . him "Teddy. He has taken
to getting up at 5 o'clock these fine morn
ings, and his parents encourage him in
such idiocy by bragging around "how
smart our little Teddy is!" :;
Ten minutes after Teddy is up he is
racing along in front of my house draw
ing a stick over the palings of the fence
under .my bedroom window. - Then he
walks up and down singing "1 want to
be an angeL" He knows but one line
of it,4ind he screeches that out over and
over again until well,' you know what
I wish as I lie in bed gnashing my
teeth, .with no hope of getting my be
loved mornipg snooze.
By and by. at about half . past 5, he
brings out a wagon made out of a wood
en box and four creaking, wobbling.
solid wooden wneeis, and he races up
and down the wooden pavement drag
ging that noisy; loathsome - thing after
him. Then he gets under my open bed
room window and begins screeching to
a boy who lives half a block away :
"Jimmy! O-o-o-h, Jim!'- S-a-a-y, Jim
Jones, l m op and yon a-i-t-i-n'tr
Then he goes through a series of yells,
cat calls and dog barks, ending, with
frightful singing of "Annie Booney.
This is followed by another wildly
screeched out taunt to Jimmy Jones.
"S-a-a-y, Jim I Beat ye npl Tve beat
ye up, sleepy headl O-o-o-o-h. Jim!"
Vou thrust your head out of a window
and say coldly:
"Stop that noise!"
He looks np at you placidly and. says:
"1 guess I can make all the noise 1
want to in my father's own yard, so I
can, and he makes more noise than be
fore, while you bounce back to bed feel
ing pretty sure that the command to
"love thy neighbor as thyself did not
include thy neighbor's boy. Detroit
Free Press.
The Little Soldier.
A short soldier is not to be held in
efficient because of lack of stature. The
standard in the French army is, and
was, indeed, in tne days or the old pro
fessional army. lower than ours is now.
The piou-pious who stormed the Mala
koff were little grigs of men, averaging
about 5 feet 4 inches. But they were
wiry, tough, sinewy fellows genuine
men, although low of stature. The
French nation runs small.
The British people, as a whole, are of
larger frame, and the undersized men
among us are more apt to be weaklings.
How much more likely to be weaklings
are the undersized "dregs ' to use Mr.
Bright's expression who scramble by a
strain into our ranks under the present
low standard of admission.
The old notion was that a big soldier
was needed to furnish weight and thrust
ing power in a bayonet charge. There
are no bayonet charges now. During
the whole Franco-German war- I saw
bloody bayonets but once, and that in a
street fight. Man for man, the moderate
sized, sturdy recruit perhaps even the
8 tardy little recruit, is likely to make
better all around soldier than the big
fellow. He has more endurance, he
seems to carry his burden more easily,
having less of himself to carry, and he is
generally healthier.
But your narrow chested, "herring
bodied, undersized gutter weed is pure
trash on campaign; you cannot make de
cent "cannon fodder" of a creature of
this sort, and it is of creatures of this
sort that ' our ranks todav are full.
Archibald Forbes in Fortnightly Re
view.
The Dog's TLa-ucli.
The proprietor of a Third avenue sa
loon owns a bttle black kitten that is
Curiosity, it cultivates a habit of squat
ting on its haunches, like a bear, or
kangaroo, and then sparring with its
forepaws as if it had taken lessons from
a pugilist. When in a playful . mood it
never shows a claw or attempts
to
as
scratch, but parries and counters
though familiar with every rule in the
Queensberry code. 4
A gentleman took into the saloon the
other evening an enormous black dog,
half Newfoundland, half collie, fat, good
natured and intelligent. The tiny black
kitten, instead of bolting at once for
shelter, retreated a' few paces, sat erect
on it8.bind legs and '.'put up its fists'
an attitude of defiance and challenge.
The contrast in size between the two
quadrupeds was intensely amusing.
reminded one of Jack the Giant Killer
preparing to demolish a Titan.
Slowly and without a sign - or excita
bility the huge dog walked as far as his
chain would allow him and gazed in
tently at the kitten and its odd posture.
Then, as the comicality of the situation
truck him, he turned his nead and
shoulders around to the spectators, and
if minnl ever laughed in the world that
dog assuredly did so then and there. He
neither barked nor growled, . but in
dulged in a low chuckle, while eyes and
mouth beamed with merriment. New
York Telegram.
Ppr M1IU of tha World. -
' The production of paper in the entire
world is estimated to be 8.000.0000.000
pounds per year. There are 884 paper
milla and 1,106 paper' machines in this
country. Germany -has 609 mills and
801 machines; France, 420 mills and 625
machines; England,. 861 mills and 541
machines; Scotland, 89 mills and 08 ma
chines; Ireland, 13 mills and 13 W
chines; Russia, 133 mills and 137 ma
chines, and Austria," 20 mills nnd $70
machines. Boston Transcript . i ,..
J. M. HUNTINGTON & CO.
Abstracters,,- H :
Heal Estate and
Insurance Agents.
Abstracts of. and Information Concern
ing Land Titles on Short Notice.
for Sale and Houses to Kent
Parties' Looking for Homes in r i
COUNTRY OR CITY.
OR IN SEARCH OF
Bugiqeg Location,
Should Call on or Write to us.
Agents for a Full Line of .
Leading; Fire Insurance Companies,
And Will Write Insurance for
on all .
DBSTB. A -RTYFI SIBKB.
Correspondence Solicited.' All Letters
Promptly Answered. Call on or
Address,
J. M. HUNTINGTON & CO,
Opera House Block, - The Dalles, Or.
COLUMBIA
Qady :-: paetory,
W. S. CRAM, Proprietor.
Successor to Cram SCorsoa.) .
MannfHCturer of the finest French and
Home Made
CDJl.3T IDT IE S
Knot of Portland.
-DEALER IN-
Tropical Fruits, Nuts, Cigars and Tobacco.
Can furnish hit of these roods at Wholesala
or Retail
In Kverjr Style.
104 Second Street. The Dalles, Or.
R. B. Hood,
Livery, Feed and Sale
tiorses nought ana Sold on
Commission and Money
Advanced on Horses
left For Sale.
OFFICE OF-
The Dalles and Goldendale Stage Line.
Stage Leaves The Dalles every morning
at 7:30 and tiolaendale at 7:3U.
AU
frelarht must be left at R. B.
Hood's office the evening
before.
R. B. HOOD, Proprietor.
Columbia Ice Co.
104 SECOND STREET.
IOH t IOH t XOZEI t
Having over 1000 tons of ice on band,
we are -now prepared to receive' orders,
wholesale or retail, to be delivered
through the summer. . Parties contract
ing with as will be carried through the
entire season without advance in
pbick, and may depend that we have
nothing but . : . .
PURE, HEALTHFUL ICE,
Cat from mountain water ; ' no slough or
slash ponds.
Leave orders at .the Columbia Candy
Factory, 104 Second street.
W. S. CRAM, Manager.
Offiee Cor. 3d and Union Sts.
Oak and Fir on Hand.
' Orders Filled Promptly.
$500 Reward!
Wa will pay the above reward for any case of
Uver rWimnlHlnt. mrHneTwla. Blctc Headache. In
digestion, Constipation or Costtvenen we cannot
cure with West's Vegetable Liver Pills, when the
directions are strictly complied with. They are
purely vegetable, and never fail to give satisfac
tion. Sugar Coated. . Large boxes containing 80
nils. Ha cents. Beware ot oounteneics ana imi
tations.- The genuine manufacture:! only by
THE JOHN & WFST COMPANY, CHIGAOCf.
ILLINOIS,
BUKILKf HOUGHTON.
Prescription Drwftgutav .
7S Second St. Th UallM. Or
PIMII & BEllTOII
Summer Goods!
SUMMER GOODS
y' :" v.'".; . i -;
; i v.Of Every Description will beC sold at '
A : GREAT : SACRIFICE
For the Next THIRTY DAYS.
Call Early and get some . of out Genuine
Bargains. - - '"'Y. ' " '"'
,v: - . :; - -- .... " ' : . '. ,
H. Herbringv
The Dalles Mercantile Go.,
Successors to BKOOK8 t BJSEKS. Dealers in ' . : . 'V':'--'-;-' "
General Merchandise,
; Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
Gents' Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps,; etc. .
Groceries,
Provisions,
HAY, GRAIN AND PRODUCE
Of all Kinds at Lowest Market Rates.
Free Delivery to Boat and Curs and all parts Of tlie City.
- 390 and 394
NEW FIRM!
loseoe 8t
-DKALER8 IN-
V STAPLE V AND
Canned Goods, Preserves, Pickles, Etc.
Produce Bought and Sold.
Goods delivered Free, to any part of the City.
Country
Masonic Block, Corner Third and
E. Jacobsen & Co.,
WHOLESALE.
R00KSELLERS AND STATIONERS.
Pianos and Organs
Sold on EASY INSTALLMENTS. .
Notions, Toys, Fancy G-oods and Musical Instru
ments of all Kinds.
XbXctX Order Filled Promptly.
162 SECOND STREET,
The Dalles'
GigaF : Faetory,
FIRST STBKE3T.
FACTORY NO. 105.
fTf A'Xd of the Best Brands
V J 1VXZV ALiO manufactured . and
orders from all parts of the country filled
on tne shortest notice.
Th nutation of THE DALLES CI
GAR has become firmly established, and
the demand for the home manufactured
article is increasing every day.
. A. ULRICH & SON.
NEW
PRINZ & NITSCHKE.
DEALERS tN
Furniture ana Carpets.
We have added to our business a
complete Undertaking Establishment,
and as we are in no way connected with
tne undertakers xrost our prices win
be low accordingly.
Remember oar place on Becona street,
next to Moody's bank.
$20 REWARD.
TTTTT I. RB- :A VCYU 1KT INFORMATION
V V leading to the conviction of parties cutting
e ropes or la any way Intending witn
win polos or lamps of Tub Kixctbic I.ioht
Manager
FLOURING MILL TO LEASE,
rr'HE OLD
DALLES MILL AND WATER
JL Company'
sponsible parih
a I lour Mm will oe leaseu w -.
vn information apply to the
WATER COMMISSIONERS, . .
' j , ; The Dalles, Orejon.
A
Undertaking Establishment !
Summer Goods!
Hardware,
Flour, Bacon,
Second Street
NEW STORE '
Gibons,
V FANCY V
Court Streets, The Dalles, Oregon.
AJND RETAIL
THE DALLES, OREGON.
JAMES WHITE,
Has Opened a
Xjuxioli Ootuxter,
In Connection With his Fruit Stand '.
and Will Serve -
Hot Coffee, Ham Sandwich, Pigs' Feet,
and Fresh Oysters.
Convenient to the Passenger
Depot.
On Second St., near corner of Madison.
Also a
Branch , Bakery, California
Orange Cider, and the ;:
Best Apple Cider.
If yon want a good lunch, give me a call.
Open all Night ' ; ;
Phil Willig,
124 UNION ST., THE DALLES, OR..
Keeps on hand a fall line of .
MEN'S AND YOUTH'S , 'l
Ready - Made Clothing.
Pants and Suits
""MADE TO
ORDER
: ' " On Reasonable Terms.
Gall and see my Goods before .
trarchasing elsewhere. ..' v
r
Steam Ferry
V A mimic Is now running a steam
if. U. fcMlijtD Ferry between Hood
River and White ' Salmon. Charges
reasqnable. . . . R. OEvans, Prop.