The Tallss Daily Chronicle.
Entered at the Pototflce at lab Dalles, Oregon
as second-class matter. ,
THE DALLES
OBEOOD
ALMOST
FORGOTTEN.
The Mysterious'
Relic of a Prehistoric
People.
On the shores of Brittany there is a
mysterious relic of forgotten apes
which escapes the attention of most
travelers. Far out in the Moriban sea
across which legend tells us Arthur
sailed with his knights in pursuit of
the dragon rises a little island. It
can be reached in a boat from the
coast only in a calm sea. A Breton
shepherd has a solitary hut upon it
and feeds a few sheep.
Crossing the grassy slope off which
they browse, the traveler finds himself
at the foot of the hill, in the face of
which has been excavated a great tun
nel or cave, floored, walled and roofed
by huge flat rocks.
Some archaeologists say that this cav
ern was the work of the worshipers of
the serpent god of Hoa a race that has
passed into oblivion. ,
The learned traveler knows only that
the mysterious cavern antedates all
history; that the rocks of which it is
built came from the mainland, a dis
tance of more than one hundred miles
inland. No rocks like them make any
part of the geological formation of the
island. "
Even with our modern engineering
knowledge and machinery it would re
quire vast labor and skill to bring these
enormous blocks of stone and place
them so securely as to defy the wear
and friction of ages.
How were they brought here by men
who had, perhaps, few mechanical ap
pliances nothing but the strength of
their bodies and their faith in a strange
god?
The race who built the temple are
dust. Even their names ages ago per
ished from the earth. Their religion
is vanished. These stones are the mon
uments of their indomitable resolution.
That defies the flight of years.
AFRICAN COIFFURES.
Styles That Would Hardlr Find Favor In
This Country.
A recent visitor to Samoa tells of a
famous village beauty in that remote
region whose headdress is thus de
scribed: .. "Round her forehead was a
band of small pieces of nautilus shell;
above towered a mass of human hair
that had been bleached for months in
a marsh, with scraps of looking-glass
arranged in front, the whole sur
mounted with a trail of red humming
birds' feathers."
Dr. Drummond, in his book of Afri
can travel, makes mention of the chief
tain's daughter, whose hair, heavily
greased with ground-nut or, was made
up into small-sized balls, like black
currants, and then divided into pat
,. terns diamonds, circles, and narterres.
- designed with ' the skill of a land
; scape gardener. Both these ; 'arrange
ments" would, in the eyes of civilized
rt T"t.l at a n n r pnnnrticcptirs Tit T-i.Y!-i5i.TrVlTr
regarded as s?vage monstrosities, but
it is to be doubted whether they are
not utterly surpassed by the goldfinch
- and canary arrangement, by a king
fisher's wing crowned with red 'shiver
ing glass and sham jewels, both m
tawdry insolence and depravity of
'.taste. What is called "barbarous" if
?1ind among savages may, after all,
be the very height of fashion in May
fair, though the cheap finery of the
Samoan or African belle is marked
neither by cruelty to the victim nor by
gain to the artist.
The "Fabian Policy.
' The policy of wearing out the enemy
in war by delays, misleading move
ments, feints of attacks, etc., while
avoiding open battle, is called the
"Fabian policy," from the. following
circumstance: Fabius Maximus was a
Roman general in the second Punic
war'. Having been appointed just after
the Roman army had suffered severe
defeat at Lake Thrasymene, he per
ceived that his disheartened troops and
bands of raw recruits could, not op
pose successfully a trained army flushed
with victory and led by their great
' commander, Hannibal. He therefore
avoided pitched battles, moved his
camn from hisrhland to hichland, and
tired out the enemy with marches and
countermarches. This he continued
until thwarted in his calculations by
the impatience of the Roman senate,
Specimen Cases.
S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis., was
troubled with neuralgia and rheumatism,
his stomach was disordered,' his liver
was affected to an alarming degree, ap
petite fell away, and he was terribly re
duced in flesh and strength. Three bot
tles of Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, 111.
had a running sore on his leg of eight
years' standing. Used three bottles of
Electric ' Bitters and seven boxes of
Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and his leg is
Bound and well. John Speaker, Cata
waba, O., had five large fever sores on
his leg, doctors said he was incurable
One bottle Electric Bitters and one box
Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him en
tirely. Sold by Snipes & Kihersly.
wood's niosiiioriisrJu.
- .' The Great BnelUh Remedy.
. Promptly and permanently
enree an forms of Ifervous
g WeaJtncsa, Emissions, Sperur
t otorrhea, Jmpotency andftfl
effects oAtnae or Kxccssa.
jt- r-' "V"0p? Been prescribed over eo
I x:y Vi": Jwyearsln thousands of cssesj
ri.f , Jlffr. lstheonJtBeMofttooMdHbn-
V"- V est medians known.
drnstdst for Wood's Phosnhodlnet It ho offers
some worthless medicine In place of this, leave his
dishonest store. Inclose price in letter, ana
we will send by return mall.. Price, one package.
al:slx,t5. One will please, six will cur. Pamph
let In plain sealed envelope, S cents postage.
Address The Wood Chemical Co.,
131 Woodward avenue, Detroit, Mich.
Sold In The Dalles by Snipes & Kinersly.
VALUE OF DYNAMITE.
The Many Useful Purposes Which
It Serves.
Harmless and Safe to Handle XI Precau
tions Are Taken Soth ' .Heat and ..
' Percussion Needed to Explode
It Methods of Manufacture.
Dynamite is a name that, to the ma
jority of people, is synonymous with
murder, ruin and anarchy. In reality
it is a Very safe and useful commodity
when properly handled, , and will not
explode except under peculiar condi
tions. When a match is applied it will
merely burn and sizzle as the ordinary
red fire does, says the Providence Jour
nal, and ninety-nine times out of a
hundred it may be thrown from the
top of a building without doing any
harm. To explode the substance there
must be the heat and concussion com
bined, and this can be obtained only by
the use of the dynamite cap or fulmin
ate of mercury, discharged either by a
lighted fuse or by thb passage of an
electric current. I . ..
', The explosive substance itself is a
mass of sawdust or lamp black soaked
in nitro-glycerine. Either of these two
preparations is called dynamite. There
is another, the latest explosive yet in
vented,, which is obtained by mixing
the nitro-glycerine with gelatine, or
any suitable glutinous substance.
This is called forcite, and has the
double advantage over dynamite of be
ing safe to handle and more effective"
in its working. The dynamite is made
up in sticks or cartridges, generally of
half a pound weight, and held in hol
low pape r cylinders eight inches long
and one and a quarter inches in diame
ter. For shipment these sticks are put
up first in ten-pound packages, and
then five of these; packages are placed
in a strong wooden case, and in that
bulk they are sent out from the facto
ries to the selling agents. " It is not
brought here by train, and neither is
ordinary gunpowder, for that matter,
because none of the railroads which
I run freight lines m .Providence will
carry any kind of explosives. But the
dynamite is brought as far as Acton,
Mass., in the freight cars, and then
carried from there in four-horse teams.
It takes the team a day and a half to
make the trip, and the selling parties
pay the cartage. Of course there is
more or less of the stuff smuggled in
here by train; sometimes it comes
marked as soap or some equally harm
less commodity, and the freight hand
lers throw it around accordingly, and
very frequently workmen who are going
a short distance by train out of town to
do some blasting take enough with
them in a valise to cause a full-fledged
modern railroad horror if it should
gooff. T' ' . .
In the retail stores, where the dyna
mite is for sale, there is no unusual
precaution taken in the storing of it.
It is kept under the counter or on the
shelves, very much the same as com
mon salt is; only the dealer is very
careful to keep his dynamite cartridges
at one. end of the store and the dyna
mite caps at the other. The latter is
the more dangerous of the two, and it
is when they are brought together
that dynamite is a most excellent
thing to keep away from. It is the cap
and the cartridge that are so often con
founded in the accounts of explosions,
etc. The prevailing idea about Anar
chist Lingg's death is that he exploded
a cartridge in his mouth; instead it
was the much smaller but just as dead
ly cap.
The explosive retails for anywhere
from twenty-five to sixty cents a
pound, according to the percentum of
nitro-glycerine with the sawdust or
lampblack. The uses to which the
dynamite is put in everyday work on
the farms, ledges and highways are
many, lor simple rock blasting, remov
ing bowlders, breaking up iron, clear
ing tree stumps and shattering ice and
frozen ground. - It has been frequent
ly used at Benedict pond, where its ex
plosion under water, after a drowning
accident, has brought to the surface
some body that could not be secured
with the dragging irons.
If the charge is to- be used under
water or in breaking up ice the cap
has to be made water-tight where the
fuse enters before it is inserted in the
cartridge by filling in the opening
with , tar or . some - kind of grease.
Water does not injure ' the dynamite,
but it must be kept from the fulmin
ate. The powder ia injured, however,
and its power greatly diminished . by a
low temperature. High explosives
freeze at a temperature of forty de
grees to forty-three degrees,-Fahren
heit, and when in this condition will
explode, if at all, with but little effect.
So to use them in cold weather the
workmen have some contrivance foe-
warming the cartridge, either by leav
ing it in an iron kettle which is im
mersed in a larger one containing hot
water, or by burying it m sand heated
to a temperature of seventy degrees.
Carelessness, in this part of the work
has on several occasions resulted in a
premature explosion and accident, for
while both concussion . and heat are
generally necessary to produce any re
sult, either one of the two agents alone
may do so, as was the case in the re
cent catastrophe at Santander.
There is one rule of safetythat.is al
ways heeded in blasting experiments.
If the charge fails to explode after the
fuse has been lighted or the" current
turned on the operator will never dig
it out to find the reason why it is too
apt to act like the firecracker that the
small boy picks up after he thinks it
has gone off, or like the toy pistol that
isn't loaded. . ' When the first attempt
is unsuccessful,, a second charge is
placed in close proximity to the first,
and when that goes they both go.
City Warmto. .
All those holding city warrants of date
prior to September 1st, 1891, will be paid
on presentation at my office. - Interest
on same ceases after this date. .
, I. I. Bokget, -City
Treasurer. .
Thk Dalles, Or., Jan. 8, 1894k .
Use Mexican Silver Stove Polish-
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at C RANDALL
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