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Water THmt Lost at Customer. It is fan to witch the pinesppto man. ' He is a generous fellow, and the slabs of pine that he cats off and retails for a nickel are thick and sweet, and his trade is large. Unto him clerks, newsboys and mil lionaires come the livelong 'day to re fresh themselves with fruit. He peels and cuts and cuts and peels, and still the demand continues- v . . . ! ' A-Wall street banker stops and buys a piece; an editor refreshes his inner man . with a slab of pine; a street gamin whee dles a nickel-slice oat of the old man for . a penny. An old. decrepit-woman, with a cheek as hard as that of the statue of Liberty, comes up and asks him for a dice. The pineapple tnan looks at her a minute, subtracts a thin slice frohi the heap and gives it to the beggar, and she goes on her way rejoicing. -, V At last the curbstone merchant gets oat his dinner ail and eats a hearty meal. It never, occurs to him to flavor it with some of his luscious stock-in trade, and he goes dessertless. .' . - When he is through he takes out a very small tin pail of. water and sprin kles some of it upon the fruit to keep it from getting dry. Then he' carefully washes his - hands in the pail, and then,, oh, heavens! he carefully covers up the pail, as if water were .precious under the shadow of the postofi&ce and with the free drinking fountain not thirty feet away! Thank you, not today! 1 was going to treat myself to pines, but something has smddenly stolen my appetite away. New York Herald. The Neglect of tie Groom. A person about to Wixmrried has sent in a complaint for "public consideration against the constant neglect which the bridegroom receives from the press, from tiie friends of the contracting parties and often from their immediate families. AH interest centers in the bride, whose dress is described in voluminous detail, whose bouquet is not considered beneath mention, and whose face, blushing, be xeath her veil, is the most pleasing at traction of the wedding. The bridesmaids, lovely girls, flutter ing in dainty colors, are. worth -more Uian a passing, notice. The ushers, the guests, and even the organist, are spoken of in an appreciative manner. Some- tunes there is consideration shown to the sexton ot tne church, cut where is the groom? There are columns of descrip tions of weddings in tha daily press, and in these columns the personality of the' ' groom is passed over without a glimmer of apology. How does the groom dress? What - is his choice of flower? Do his gloves fit? - Are his shoes of patent leather? Nobody knows these interesting details, although, they are undoubtedly important to the neglected man. His presence is supposed from occasional mention of the "young couple," and he probably may be seen skulking around the corner of the pul pit: but he is evidently in a hurry for the completion of the matter. It is not Us occasion. Unfortunate man, he is the chief and notable instance of "Hamlet left out of Hamlet." Boston Journal CoBeeience In tlie Sleeping Mail. knui in a l, i Iaa. ma .... J teresting subject of study ever since scientific thought was born. .Locke, the -essayist on the human understanding. Was of the opinion that a man did not think at all when really asleep, while modern investigators in this line of research believe that thought no more oeases during sleep than, a watch prop erly wound runs down in the night. According to their notion, under such conditions the mechanical functions of the mind are active, though uncontrolled to the judtrment. and thus it hannens that one's dreams are apt to be nn reason able and even absurd. (Jould anything be more interesting than to trace the progress of a dream, if it were only possible? Think of the va riety of experiences through which one woold be conveyed, . nntrammeled by Hie limitations of common sense which restrict one's waking thoughts, and freed from the moral responsibilities that en eornber the doings of ordinary life. Probability sets no bounds to the dream rli vision, and even conscience is dor uo, since the most righteous of men do, mm occasions, misbehave themselves most faookmgly in the strange Land of Nod. Washington Star. . . - Bird' Watorproal Neat. Betng on 00 a prospecting tour in the moon tains and having some knowledge of birds and beasts in their native haunts, I was on the alert for anything I could see. One day while we were wading a anoontain stream in Skamania county. Wash,, I saw a water ousel leave a water fal )ne twenty feet above the stream ye.were in. . By helping my companion wp the 'rocks he was enabled to reach the place where the bird had left, and was rewarded by finding the nest, a splendid waterproof nest, built in a crevice of the rocks where the water was pouring over and partly onto the fore part of the nest. I now have it and one egg at home in Yancoaver, Wash., as a relic of our-trip. George Mitchell . in Portland Orego- Is It To or Too? The violation of the particle "to" is a ain of continual growth, and not merely Vr that insertion of an adverb between it and the body of the verb censored by Taylor,- but by total dislocation, as in soon cases as "try to," "mead to," "going -to" and "obliged to.". Dr. - Watts has been taxed with its perpetration in ' a well known line which occurs in his didactic rhyme for children, "Let dogs lelight to bark and bite;' the probable inrf.H Trwvinrr ttinf. Via nnnta "HV. ' 1. , wv.u WWUH UV . VFW &xw W9 their nature 'to,' "but, "For 'tis their na B&ture (id est," the nature of bears and "tigers to growl and fight,) 'too.' !" A mis printhere is vastly more conceivable than an ungrammatical trip on the part of Dr. Watts. Notes and Queries Reticent, .' '. .' Cleverton Was Miss Griggson bored by my talk last night? Dashaway 1 couldn't get her to say. vr 7 1. rn iv - ONE GKADUATING DAY. A HOMELY SUBJECT THAT AT TRACTED MOST ATTENTION. A Bright Girl Told What She Knew About "Raised Bread," end the Applause That Greeted the Readies of Her Essay Eel I pied That Given to All Others. . ' " Well, 1 don't care if them other girls are going to write about 'Thought,' and 'The Marble Stan's Waitin',' n 'Genius,' and all them other' things. ' Mebbe my M'randy can't say much that's edifyin' on them subjects, tho it's my . opinion she could if she tried. But she can make beautiful riz bread, and she's goin' to tell them how to do it." With this expression of faith in "M'randy's" powers, Mrs. McGillicuddy gave an emphatic twist to the garment she was wringing out of the suds. The subject first under discussion was of no small importance in the village, for jt related to the graduating exercises at the village high school. With but one exception,' the boys and girls in the class sought topics that would "sound well" and make a good show in the daintily printed programmes. One of the young ladies began to write on "Twilight Thoughts;" another choge as her subject "Destiny f another wrote at the head of the first page "Every Cloud Has Its Silver Lining." Of course each one soon learned what subjects had been chosen by the other members of the class, and loud were the complaints when it was known what Mi randa McGillicuddy proposed to write about. It was agreed that the class would go down into, history forever dis graced. . "But you see," said Miranda, "I don't know. any thing at all about these high toned subjects that the rest of you have. I couldn't say one word about them that would be worth hearing, but I think I do know how to : make bread, and I'm sure .that many in the audience will be interested to know some of the quirks and the twists that turn out a handsome loaf." ' ., . "Well," said another, "I envy yon the abundance of things you can say about it, but it's so awfully commonplace: why, it's it's as commonplace as eat ing!" ' .' AN INTERESTING ESSAY. ' Graduating day at last arrived, with its flutter of excitement, its flowers, its ft proud fathers and mothers and sympa thizing friends and its somewhat envious . lower classes. . .-.-First came the salutatory, which was listened to with marked attention, as 'would be the case even with a thought ful paper on the "Identity of Identity .and Nonidentity" if it came first on ' the programme. Then' came an oration on "Greece," by a boy, followed by an essay on "Phi losophy." - . . By this, time there were signs of rest lessness, and some quiet whispering go ing on among such as were not carefully polite. Fortunately music came in at this . point, . after .which the audience was. invited to listen to some 'Twilight Thoughts." Then appeared the "Cloud" that was supposed to have a "Silver Lining," but which certainly cast no gleam over the audience. This condition, strange to say, seemed to be intensified when "Hope" appeared. At this point the presiding officer an nounced an essay on "Raised Bread," by miss juiranaa Mcuuiicuddy. The eager interest that came into ev ery face in the audience was quite hu miliating to those who had already ap peared on the stage, and still more hu miliating was the close attention that was suddenly paid to every word that was said. - The essay discussed the importance of good bread in a hygienic point of view the effect which a "flat" biscuit fre quently has upon the disposition of the eater, as well as upon his stomach; the nutritious and nonnutritious qualities of various kinds of flour, and the whole method of procedure, from the making of yeast, through the successive stages of mixing, working, raising, reworking, molding and baking till that consum mate flower of good housekeeping ap peared a light, nutritions aud delicious loaf of bread. THE JCDGKs REMARKS. Not one word was lost by the audience from beginning to end. The ladles were chiefly interested, perhaps, but men lis tened very attentively too. When the reading was finished the. essay was given the heartiest applause of the evening. After the programme had been finished and the audience was preparing to de part, Judge Gildersleeve, chairman of the school committee and the most im portant citizen of the town, rose to make a few remarks, and this was what he said: ' ., "Before' the audience diperses, I have a suggestion to make, chiefly for the benefit of those who may belong to the graduating classes of the future. If you wish, in preparing a graduating essay or oration, to interest your audience and it is -needless to say that you do let 7onr remarks apply to a period not later at least than a hundred years ago, and better still, if they apply to a time not later than a hundred days ago. And let them be on a subject in wbitu you are interested, and in which your audience is interested, however homely it may ap pear. "It ia not necessary that it should be on the proper way to' bake bread, like the very interesting, practical and well written paper to which we have just lis tened, or on the right way to make a bed, which would be another good sub ject; but it would far better be on these subjects, if you . know -what you are writing about, than upon Time, Genius or The Ideal, even though you treat them thoughtfully. . . , "We are a' practical people, and we ! like to be approached npon the plane of ! siwjuaj ixit;. r e are greatly inter ested in our schools and scholars, but we want to see you with ;.-our feet both of them on the ground, which precludes the possibility of your heals being among the clouds." Webb Donnell in Youth's Companion. - - . , VraalcCort'a System of Banks. Of all the schemes designed for small savings and to encourage the poor to lay by small sums the penny savings stamp system, established in 1883 at Frankfort-on-the-Main, is the most unique. Frank fort is distinguished among European cities by the large average wealth of its citizens, and by its exceptional promi nence in all that pertains to banking and finance. Many great banking fami lies had their origin in Frankfort, from which branches have been established at Paris, London, Vienna and New York. There are today not less than 200 bank ing houses, public, and private, in the city. It might naturally be expected, then, in view of these facts, thaj; some original features in the line of savings banks should be found there. The Frankfort Savings bank is a pri vate corporation established in 1823, nearly seventy years ago, when Frank fort was a free city and independent of all state allegiance and control. It be gan with 294 depositors, with 86,934 marks to their credit. In 1889 there were 56,697 depositors, with an aggre gate capital of 88,215,697 marks, the re ceipts and withdrawals that year being 6,319,276 and 5.151,602 marks respec tively. ' . There are three departments connected with this institution. . The Savings De posit bank, which comprises a central office and two branches in different parts of the city; the Weekly Savings bank, a separate bureau, under the same man agement, but differing from it in that it collects from each depositor, a stated weekly deposit, and the Penny Savings institution, which is .adapted to the methods of the humblest class , of depos itors, whose savings are limited to a few pennies per day or week. New York Recorder. ' . . The Ta Houses of Japan! Mousuiees. rickshaws and tea houses are the three institutions one associates with Japan. Kipling has made the rick shaws hardly more of a phantom than the three-horse car, while Sir Edwin Ar nold and Pierre Loti have pictured the gentle mousmee with such exquisite finish that people ignorant of the mean ing of the word a few months back are in love with her quaint beauty and rav ishing smiles. . ".. " ' - Tea houses are simply inns' or restau rants where the principal refreshment (often the only one) is tea. In the cities they are the favorite evening resorts, for there you can hire the gaudy Geisha girls to dance and sing or play the samo sin and koto between the1 intervals of love making." She is a mistress of this art. Nara, one" of the most beautiful places in Japan, has'no other accommoda tion, and notice must be sent the day be fore to tell the owner how many' guests he is to accommodate. . Rickshaws laden with supplies start a few hours ahead, the coolies who draw them acting as cooks and house servants during your stay. Stowed in these use ful, vehicles is all you require food and the utensils for cooking and eatiner it The teahouse supplies nothing but chop sticks, fresh eggs and rice. 'The little teahouse at Nara was like a white parch ment box with wooden corners, and stood in the shade of a crystomoria grove. In the heat of the day the parch ment walls disappear mysteriously into the wooden corners; then the entire house looks like a platform, with high wooden corner posts, raised a few feet frsm the ground, covered with dazzling white matting. Once a Week. Comfort Cor Corpses. Among the inventions that commend themselves to public . notice during the last fifty, years are those relating to cof fins, graves and burials. One of these is intended to furnish the tenant of a grave who has been buried prematurely with a means of escape or arousing the neigh borhood. This invention is a simple af fair, being merely an open tube provided with a rope ladder and a bell and cord. Should the occupant of the coffin awake from the trance he could climb the lad der and make his way back to the world, or pull the bell and alarm the township. For those whose only fear is that they may not . be allowed' to rest undisturbed a considerate inventor has provided a "torpedo grave," which, if disturbed, ex plodes at once and scatters the vandal to the winds. Chicago Times. A modern' So I onion. , A famous Chicago-lawyer ouoe had a singular case to settle. A physician came to him in great distress. Two sisters, living in the same house, had babies of -equal age, who so resembled each other that their own mothers were unable to distinguish them when they' were to gether. Now it happened that by the carelessness of the nurses. the children had become mixed, and how were the mothers to make sure that they received back their own infants? "But, perhaps," said the lawyer, "the children weren't changed at all." "Oh, but there's no doubt they were changed." said tbe.phy sician. "Are you sure of it?" Per fectly." "Well, if that's the ease, why don't you change them back again? 1 don't see any difficulty in the case." Boston Saturday Gazette. Wh; Woae Should Help Govern. The eternal and ineradicable distinc tion of sex is one principal reason why women in a representative ' government should be directly represented. If law yers alone cannot' safely be trusted to make laws for mechanics, if merchants alone cannot legislate for farmers, if every well defined class in society is en titled to its own authoritative expression through the ballot, surely, women, who are the wives and sisters and mothers of men, should give expression to the do mestic interests from the feminine point of view. ,If a blacksmith cannot fairly represent a physician, how much lees can a man represent a woman! Henry B. Black welL : ' ' ; "i ' , , Vnit Fatal. Z Mrs. Spiggit Do yon thi nk that smok ing shortens life? ' Mrs. Gazlay I think it does." Tin sure some of the- cigars my husband smokes would kill me if I Staid in the room. New York Epoch The Tonic Sol-fa System. The present year will witness the fif tieth anniversary of the tonic sol-fa sys tem, which has done so much, andr we may safely say, will do so much more in the future, to spread the knowledge and the love of music among the people. , Mr. Spencur Curwen, son of the inventor and most energetic propagator of the system, seizes the opportunity for a very interesting review of its history and characteristics in Good Words. Coldly received, disparaged and even derided in many influential quarters, it is now able to confound its opponents by the incon testable evidence of its fruits. As Mr. Curwen . observes, in this jubilee year there are hundreds of musi cians who have successfully climbed the ladder his father placed for them bache lors and doctors of music, fellows of tho College of Organists; associates of the Royal Academy of Music, vocalists and performers of repute. Mr. Ben Davis, not many years ago, was singing in tonic sol-fa choirs, and he constantly advises opera singers who wish to read at sight to learn the system. A doctor of music who graduated the other day at one of our universities testi fies that without the tonics sol-fa system he does not think he could possibly have done the work. . Such authorities as Dr. Helmholtz, of Berlin; Sir John Herschell, Mr. Bosanquet, General Thompson, Dr. Bridge, Mr. Henry Leslie, Lord Ray leigh, Mr. A. J. Ellis and many others not less noteworthy have given, their sanction to the system. In a Den of Copperheads." John Saley, a deaf and dumb boy of Pittsburg, went out with the intention of picking raspberries. He had about filled his pail, when bis attention was attract ed by an unusual motion in the bushes near him. A moment later a monster copperhead snake appeared from under a bush. Before the lad could move the snake had coiled itself and leaped athinxJ ine stroke was short, but some of the green poison from its fangs fell on Saley's trowsers. lhe boy became paralyzed with terror. . A moment later the reptile had formed its deadly coil again, and once- more leaped forward to strike. It measured the distance with fatal accur acy, for the deadly fangs were buried deep into Saley's right leg. The pain aroused the boy from his terror and he jumped back. The snake strove to hold on to the leg. Then the boy fainted from fright. . Neighbors ran to the spot just in time to prevent the copperhead from striking again. One of the men seized a club and with a blow broke the snake's back as it "was recoiling. ' The reptile measured eleven feet. ' A physician. cauterized the wound, but the poison had penetrated the boy's system.- Investigation showed that young Saley had wandered into a den of copperheads.-- - ' i STIPATION. Afflicts hal the American people yet there is only one preparation of Saraaparilla that acts on the bowels and reaches this important trouble, and that is Joy's Vegetable Saraaparilla, : It re lieves it in 24 hours, and au occasional dosa prevents return. "Ve refer by permission te&E. Eltlngton, 125 LoCHst Avenne, 8au Francisco; J. H. Brown, Petalnma; H. 8. Winn, Geary Court, San Francisco, and hundreds of others who have used it in constipation. One letter is a sample of hundreds. Elkington, writes: "I have been for years subject to billons headaches and constipa tion. Hare been ro bad for a year bacs: have had to take a physic every other night or else I would have a headache. After taking one bottle of J. V. 8., I am in splendid shape. It has done wonderful things for me. People similarly troubled should try it and be convinced." Jou Vegetable w Sarsaparilla Most Juier.i, ntoxt largest bottle. Same price, $1.00. ;x Tor .,.(u. For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY. THE DALLES, OREGON. A Revelation. Tew people know that tha bright bluish-green color of the ordinary teas exposed in the windows la not the nat ural color. Unpleasant as the fact may he, it is nevertheless artificial; mineral coloring matter - being used for this purpose. The effect is two fold. It not only makes the tea a bright, shiny green, bat also permits tha maa of " off-color " and worthless teas, which, once under the green cloak, are readily worked off as a good quality of tea. An eminent authority writes on this sub ject: "The manipulation of poor teas, to give them afiner appearance, is carried on exten sively. . Green teas, being in this country especially popular, are produced to meet the demand by coloring cheaper black kinds by glaring or facing with Prussian blue, tumeric, gypsum, and indigo. Thi method is so gen- eral Oat very little gamine tmeotored green tea ie offered for tale." , ' It was the knowledge of this condition of affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's Tea before the public. It is absolutely pure and without color. Did you ever see any genuine uncolored Japan tea? Ask your grocer to open a package of Beech's, and you will see It, and probably for the very first time. It will be found in color to be Just be- ' tween the artificial green tea that you have . been accustomed to and the black teas. It draws a delightful canary color, and is so fragrant that it' will be a revelation to tea drinke'l Its purity makes it ' also more . economical than the artificial teas, for lew -of it is required per cup. . Sold only in pound packages bearing this trade-mark: BEEC TmrAs:bood- If you grocer does not have it, he win get i it for yon. Price 60o per pound. For sale at V " IBM DALLES, OREGON. CON Tfie Danes cnronicie is here and has come to stay. 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