The dalles Daily Chronicle.
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THE DAIiLISS
OREGOS
AMERICAN CUSINESS LIFE.
One of the Things Which an English
Gentleman Cannot Understand.
- This business life of American gen
tlemen is one of the hardest problems
for an Englishman to understand cor
rectly, says the Nineteenth Century.
Till comparatively lately in England
commercial business, except banking,
has not been thought highly of for
gentlemen.. Politics, the church, the
army and navy, the bar, etc., have
been the outlets for English younger
sons. In America it is quite different.
Among the many reasons, for this I
will mention but the one important
one, that the pursuits above men
tioned afford but few openings, com
paratively speaking.
The church is a poorly-paid profes
sion for the sons of the wealthy mer
chants, and the army and navy are so
small in number that they do not af
ford a field for more than a few. The
bar is, of course, open, and is crowded
in America as in England. Politics,
for some inscrutable reason, does not
seem to attract many of the higher
grades of youth. Consequently, the
young American seeks the conjnercial
field, and in every ' American citj-,
especially in the west, one finds at the
head of cultivation and progress men
whose rise has been due to successful
commercial enterprise. It is well for
the individual that success should be
so rewarded, and it is well for the
community, also, that the man of busi
ness, who has gained his success on
legitiraate"lines, should be its leader.
In a new and partly unsettled country
like America, so fortunately situated
as to need practically no foreign pol-1
; icy, and to fear no foreign enemies,
. the creator or the distributor of wealth
is a far more valuable man than the
politician or the soldier.
The sanguineness of the American is
another feature especially striking to
an outsider. The whole temper of the
jpeople is one of hope. No young man
enters life in any line without the
fullest belief that he is going to suc
ceed, and going to make a great deal
of money, and do it all very quickly.
This may be true of young men every
where, but it is especially so in the
states. And men are justified in their
youthful hopes.
Practically any young man of rea-
. -sonablo brain3 and industry is sure to
succeed. Openings are numerous, and
the sharp-witted American is quick to
take advantage of them. It is a curi
ous fact, but one that I have often
-heard employers of xmskilled labor
comment upon, that none of their
workmen were America'n born, unless,
possibly, some of the foremen. As an
Englishman, I am glad to add that
rarely are Englishmen either found as
unskilled laborers in American work-
. shops.
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SHE RUNS THE ELEVATOR.
And
One Business Man Wants to
What Olrls W1U Do Next.
Know
"Well! well! What will the girls do
. next?"
A business man asked this question
the other day of a New York World re
porter as he stepped aboard the ele
vator in a building on West Fourteenth
street. The door of the car was shut
with a bang by a vigorous, rosy
cheeked and muscular-looking young
woman of about twenty years a business-like
young woman she was, too.
"What floor, sir? Architect? Eight
to the left, second door," she said, as
the car stopped at the third floor.
It quickly shot higher as the ele
vator girl gave the cable a steady pull.
Everyone wondered at her dexterity.
And she was the pink of propriety, po
lite and full of information as to the
tenants of the building. To say that she
was an improvement on a great many
surly elevator kings in down-town
office buildings would be putting it
mildly.' A gentleman who had to call
at the office of a tenant in the building
asked the elevator girl the number of
. his room, and here is what she said: j
"Oh! yes, sir; Mr. is on the fourth
floor. No. , right near the stair
way. He went out an hour ago. His
assistant is out, too, but I am sure they
will be back soon. What time did you
say it was? One o'clock. Well, sir, if
you don't mind, just take this chair.
Sit right down. Mr. will be back
in ten minutes. Just out for lunch,
you know. A very pleasant man, isn't
he? All aboard!"
And up shot the car.
The reporter couldn't ascertain
whether the rosy-cheeked elevator girl
was a fixture or not, as she refused
pointblank to answer any questions
about herself.
"Just call me Mary Jane," said she,
when asked her name. "I am here to
work, not to talk about myself."
One of the tenants in the building
says she can run an elevator car better
than any man in town. It looked that
way somewhat.
About a year ago I took a violent at
tack of la grippe. I coughed day and
jiight for about six weeks ; my wife then
.suggested that I try Chamberlain's
Cough Eemedy. At first I could see no
difference, but still kept trying it, and
soon found that it was what I needed.
"If I got no relief from one dose I took
' another, and it was only a few days un
til I was free from the cough. I think
people in general ought to know the
rvalue of this remedy, and I take pleas
ure in acknowledging the benefit I have
received from it. Madison Mcstajrd,
Olway, Ohio. Fifty-cent bottles for eale
" by Blakeley & Houghton, druggists.
Captain Sweeney, U. S. A., San
Diego, Cal.,-says: "Shiloh's Catarrh
Eemedy is the first medicine I have
ever found that would do me any good."
EDIBLE REPTILES.
Turtles Which Contribute to the
World's Pood Supply.
Monster Chelonlans That Frequent the
Ocean Depths and Fresh Water Tor
toises Which Are Highly Valued
in the Markets.
Forty-two species of tortoises in
habit the United States and adjacent
seas. They furnish nearly all of the
reptilian food supply of this country,
which is of great aggregate quantity,
and represents a value of hundreds of
thousands of dollars annually. Among
them, says the St.' Louis Globe-Democrat,
are several gigantic kinds which
live in the ocean, and are remarkable
in many ways. These marine turtles
are specially adapted to an aquatic
mode of existence. Their bodies have
a specific gravity almost exactly equal
to that of the water in which they are
immersed, so that they are able to sus
tain themselves at the surface for any
length of time without fatigue. They
never go ashore except to lay eggs."
Their hind feet are used as rudders,
while the fore feet, with which they
propel themselves, have a motion sim
ilar to that of a bird's wings. In fact,
all their movements are more those of
flying than of swimming.
These giant turtles are found all
along the Atlantic coast, though it is
only in southern waters that they oc
cur in great numbers. One of the
most powerful of them is the logger
head, which attains a weight of six
teen hundred pounds. It is a rapid
swimmer and is often seen far from
land, floating on the waves asleep.
Carnivorous by nature, it feeds on crabs
and fishes, and especially on a large
species of conch, which it breaks witli
its enormous jaws and devours in large
quantities. The flesh of this tortoise
is leathery and oily, with a strong
smell of musk. In the West Indies
formerly it was given to the slaves for
food. Young specimens, however, are
tolerably palatable, and are frequently
sold in the markets. A considerable
amount of oil may be obtained from
the loggerhead, but its rank odor un
fits it for use in cooking. It has been
employed to smear on the sides of ves
sels, which it is said to preserve from
shipvvorms, and to soften certain
leathers. The scales forming the shell,
though bigger than . those of the tortoise-shell
turtle, are very thin and apt
to be wrinkled and filled, with impuri
ties. On that account they are not used
to any great extent in the arts.
The tortoise shell of the Florida and
Gulf coast is found in many other parts
of th world. It does not attain a weight
of more than three hundred pounds.
Its diet is exclusively vegetable, but it
is much more fierce than the carnivor
ous and harmless loggerhead. It bites
severely and inflicts painful wounds,
so that fishermen have to be on their
guard against its attacks. The scales
or plates that cover its bony shell form
the tortoise shell of commerce. They
are arranged in three rows, the central
containing five plates and each of the
lateral rows four plates. In addition
the margin of the shell has twenty
five small plates. The colors preferred
are mingled golden yellow, reddisli
jasper and white or brown. A variety
in which much white occurs is highly
esteemed, especially by the Chinese. It
is known as "blonde shell." The best
tortoise shell comes from the Indian
archipelago. The material is imitated
beautifully in cow's horn, so that only
an expert can tell the difference.
Combs made from the golden yellow
under shell of this tortoise are eagerly
sought by Spanish ladies, fetching
from fifteen to twenty dollars apiece.
Another great marine tortoise is the
green turtle, famous in soup. In size
it comes between the loggerhead and
tortoise-shell, reaching a weight of one
thousand pounds. It lives mostly in
deep water, feeding on plants, especial
ly on one called "turtle grass." This
it cuts off near the roots, to procure the
most tender and succulent part, which
alone is eaten, while the rest of the
plant floats to the surface and is there
collected in large fields a sure indica
tion that the feeding ground of the an
imals is near. The latter, after brows
ing for awhile in these pastures of sea
weed, seek the-mouths of rivers to
bathe m fresh water, which seems to
be necessary for them from time to
time. In Florida the green turtle is
said by turtle fishers to enter the
creeks which abound on. that coast,
and, having eaten its fill of the sea-
grass growing there, to roll together
masses of it as big as a man's head,
which it cements with clay. Then,
when the turn of the tide takes the
ball out to sea, the turtle follows it,
feeding on it. When, therefore, the
fishermen find any of these balls float
ing down a creek, . they at once spread
a strong net across the mouth and al
ways secure a number of the tortoises.
The flesh attached to the upper shell is
known in cookery as "calipash," while
that attached to the lower shell is
called "calipee."
There are a good many families of
edible fresh-water tortoises which live
in rivers, ponds and marshes. Among
these are several species of soft-shelled
turtles, which are frequently seen in
the markets, their flesh being said to
be even superior to . the green turtle.
They are taken with hook and line,
snapping greedily at any kind of fish.
They feed on small fishes, snails and a
variety of vegetable matter. Most fre
quently they are seen along the mar
gins of sluggish and shallow streams,
wooing sweet repose in the voluptuous
and buxom mud-bank. It is said that
some of them do much 'damage in po
tato fields situated near water courses
which they inhabit, since they are very
xond of browsing on the stems 01 the
plants. -
The Children of Israel.
Afghan chroniclers call their people
Eani-Israel, the Arab for children of
Israel, and claim descent, from Saul,
the first Ipraeliti--h kin".
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Cheaper than anywhere else at the
SLOT MACHINES.
One of the Most Novel of Them Is Ten
- Thousand Tears Old.
Probably one of the latest appliances
of the principle governing the opera
tion of the slot machine is . found in
the hot water fountains which have
been brought out in France, says Cas
sier's Magazine.
' These fountains are put up ' in the
public street and afford the ' conven
ience of supplying at any hour of the
day or night a certain quantity of hot
water in return for a coin of certain
value, which is dropped into the slot
in the now so familiar way. The
dropping of the coin automatically
governs the flow of water from the
street mains through a small boiler,
heated by a series of gas jets, and sim
ilarly regulates the quantity of gas
which js admitted, and which is lighted
by means of a small, constantly main
tained ignited jet.
The - French hot water machine
brings back to mind very strikingly
the apparatus designed more than two
thousand years ago by Hero, of Alex
andria, which furnishes one of many
similar illustrations of the extent to
which the ancients made use "of what
are often supposed to be entirely mod
em ideas. -
Curiously enough, Hero's machine, it
may here be repeated, was operated by
a coin representing five drachmas.
The coin, in falling, struck a lever,
opened a valve and let out a small
quantity of holy water. When the
coin fell off the lever the valve was
closed.
Hero went still further, however, by
inventing an automatic bartender on
the coin-in-the-slot principle. " ' This
was a vase containing three kinds of
liquor in different compartments, with
a faucet arranged so as to be opened
part of the way by one coin, still fur
ther yet by a larger or heavier coin,
and then still further by a still larger
or heavier coin. '
' The extent to which the faucet was
opened determined which chamber
should communicate with it, and hence
which of the three liquors should be
allowed to"escape. This machine, ap
parently, has not yet been reinvented.
"During the epidemic "of la grippe
Chamberlain's Cough Eemedy took the
lead here and was much better liked
than any other medicine." H.-M. Bangs,
druggist, Chatsworth, 111.- The grip is
much the eame as a very severe cold and
requires precisely the eame treatment.
This remedy is prompt and effectual and
will prevent any tendency of the disease
towards pneumonia. For sale by Blake
ley & Houghton, druggists.
Look Over Vour County Warrants.
All county warrants registered prior
to January 16th, 1890, will .be paid if
presented at my office, corner of Third
and Washington streets. Interest
ceases on and after this date.
Wm. Micheix,
' . Treasurer Wasco County.
October 21st, 1893. - tf
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seems to be a lack of good business
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"Who are you talking about?"
"The singers,", he said, promptly.
"They just loaf and take their time
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