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The Dalles Daily Ghfonicle. OFFICIAL PAPER OF DALLES CITY. AMD WASCO COUNTY. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. IT MAIL, FOB-TASK PREPAID, IN ADVANCE. Weekly, 1 year 1 1 50 " 6 months. 0 75 g ." 0 60 Dally, 1 year. 6 00 , " 6 months.. ..v 8 00 per ' 0 50 Address all communication to " THE CHBON ICLE." The Dalles, Oregon. Post-Office. OFFICE HOCKS 1 ' General Delivery Window. .8 a. in. to 7 p. m. Money Order . " 8a.rn.to4p.rn. Sunday J D, ' " ' " 9 a. m. to 10 a. m. CLOSING OV MAILS trains eolne East 9 p. m. and 11:45 a. m. u i West 9 p.m. and 6:80 p.m. - "Stage for Goldenaale 7:aua.m. " " Prlnevillo 6:80 a.m. " Dufuraud Warm 8prings. ..6:80a.m. - " .tijeaving lor A.yie o uaruana. .o:aw . iu. " ' (Antelope 5:30 a. m. Except Sunday. Trl-weekly. Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. 1 " Monday Wednesday and Friday. TUESDAY, - FEB. 27, 1894 Prince Colonna wanted to thrash a few of the New York editors for giving him so much unfavorable publicity. ' It is needless to say he was easily dissuaded by his attorney. It is to be hoped he was not afraid of meeting some irate American newsboy on his belligerent errand. ' Wheat at 62 cents per bushel in New York is the lowest price ever re corded for it in the history of the coun try; and this in spite of a decrease in the yield. A few days belore Cleveland's election 73 was recorded. At this time there was a tremendous clamor for a change and "republican oppression" was the battle cry with both democrats and populists. The change has been the other way. Now these demagogues claim the price of wheat has nothing to do with politics. If they are honest now they were dishonest a year ago. The truth is that politics have a wide bearing on price, and not only - wheat, but wool attests to the fact. The report of the senate committee on the Hawaiian mess is remarkable for ' one thing it finds a good worn for every one of the Americans prominently men tioned during the long controversy about ' the Sandwich Islands and Queen Lilliuo- kalani. Neither Cleveland Blount, Stevens or Captain Wiltse is criticized, and an excuse is found for Willis for any ' possible indiscretion. - They have missed "both Scylla and Chary bdis by some of the most remarkable political engineer ing ever recorded and the testimony taken by the - committee covered over 700 pages. True the republican minority find a few minor faults, such as declar ing the appointment of Blount unconsti tutional, hauling down the flag, etc., but they express accord with the essential findings of the main report. Altogether, the matter presents a happier solution than was even hoped for. It would be amusing now if one could Bee some of the transparencies that we're carried in democratic processions in the fall of 1892 "Vote for Grover Cleveland and $1.25 per bushel for wheat." "Vote for Grover Cleveland and steady em ployrnent at increased wages." "Down with the robber barons and up with the working people." If these mottos were gathered out of the woodshed and dusted off for use today revised to suit the facts, they would not be recognized by their most intimate friends. One engineer had on his engine running from The Dalles to Portland a few days after the election this motto : "Hurrah for Grover, Not In soup but clover." - In less than six months of democratic rule, wheat went down from 70 cents to as low as 33 cents, the U. P. railroad employes who voted for Grover to get steady employment at increased wages found half of their number discharged from the service, the wages of the re maining half cut down 30 per cent, and the road in the hand's of a receiver. The engineer who hurrahed for Grover "not jn soup but .clover," is now more than likely sawing wood in the backyard of some second class soup house to earn soup for himself, with this. motto on his saw-buck: "Old Grover Is still in clover, His friends are in the soup. , If the thing was to do over, From me he'd'get no whoop. On Trial. That's a good way to buy a medicine, but its a pretty hard condition under which to tell it. Perhaps you've noticed that the ordinary hit or miss medicine -doesn't attempt it. The only remedy of its kind so re markable in its effects that it can be sold on this plan is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Ab a blood-cleanser strensrth-restorer, and . flesh-builder there's nothing like it known to medical Bcierice. In every- disease where .the fault is in the liver or the blood, as ' DvsDensia. Indigestion, Biliousness, and the moBt stubborn Skin, Scalp,, and Scrofulous affections, it is guaranteed in every case to benefit or cure, or you have your money bacs. To every sufferer from Catarrh, no matter bow bad the case or of how long standing, the proprietors of Dr. . Sage's Catarrh .Remedy say this : It we can't cure it. "perfectly and permanently, we'll pay you $500 in cash." Sold by . all druggists. "Winter Fuel. - We still have a large supply o.f Hard Wood, including Oak, Ash, Maple and Crab Apple, all drv. and suitable for familv use to be sold cheap. Febuary, 1894. . , Jos. T..Petebs & Gs, POLITICS IN POMPEIL How, Municipal Elections Were Manaared Before the Eruption. The Ward System and Primaries Were thfl Same as Those of Our Modern Cities Ballot-Box Stuffing' . Known to the Ancients. . .. The Pompeiians were in the midst of a hot political campaign when the city was destroyed by lava and ashes, A. D. 79. Dr. James C. Wellinjr, presi dent of the Columbian university at Washing-ton, has been studying the features of this ancient election, as they are recorded upon the walls and billboards which in those days took the place of newspapers. In a very in teresting lecture before the Anthropo logical society, he gives a description of ward politics in Pompeii more than eighteen hundred years ago. It sounds astonishingly like the story of modern elections, with ward-meetings, primar ies and appeals for candidates. The city seems to have had a thoroughly equipped political "machine." ' Polit ical clubs were numerous, borne oi them were evidently composed of "the boys;" the Little Thieves, for instance, the Late Topers and the Sleepy Heads. Municipal elections were held once a year, and any citizen was at liberty to run for office. His intention to do so was made known by his friends post ing his name On the billboards and walls about the city. One Titus . Ge marius, a baker, who had a shop on a corner with a side wall running back along an alley, made a "handsome thing" - by renting it for bulletin boards. -. - After a candidate's name had been posted . for some time, he could tell pretty well whether he stood any chance of winning. If he saw that he did not, he went to the chief selectman and asked to have his name withdrawn; but if he thought his chances pretty good, his name was put on -the "white list," after which there was no back ing out. The system of wards and primary elections was practically the same as that followed in New York to-day. The electors chosen at the primaries met at the Forum on election day to deposit their ballots, and fell into line as men do at the polls now. There were three judges of election, and each can didate was permitted to station pne of his own men at the ballot box, to .see that no intimidation was practised. The ballot box was very closely watched, a fact which seems to show that ballot box' stuffing was not un known even then. The candidate who carried a majority of the wards was elected . . 1 1 will be seen that th is gave the "machine" fine opportunity for a gerrymander. The Pompeiians "whooped it up" for their candidates in the true modern style. Thus.the Late. Topers, who had their headquarters opposite the forum, announced their preferences on a bill board as follows: "The Late Topers beg their friends to vote for Marcus Lavinius Vatia foi ajdile." . - Vatia. who was a favorite in sport ing circles, evidently liaa some money to spend in the legitimate expenses of his eampaiflrn, for all his' notices and announcements are well got up. His rival. Popidius, either- did not look after his campaign, or else bad no money to employ a competent bill poster, for his notices are misspelled, and in all respects unequal to Vstia's. Thebus. a tavernkeeper on, the Via Storta., wanted C. Gavius Rufus and M. Holconius Priscus elected duumvirs. They had probably promised to get his taxes lowered, or that the police should let his place alone. Therefore Thebus had all the walls m his neighborhood decorated with "Thebus and his cus tomers 'nominate C. Gavins Rufus and M. Holconius Priscus for duumvirs.'' The electors did not mind stirring up candidates who expected their friends to do all the work for them. One in scription reads: "O Eubonius, . kgep your eyes open!" And Infaqs is prod ded as followg: "O Infans, you are fast asleep, and yet you say you are elec tioneering: ' There was a tavern in the first ward wnere a primary was probably nela. At any rate, a large crowd had assem bled, and the landlord very 'obligingly provided seats. ' For this he was re warded by an inscription on the wall. The sentiment was; better than the grammar: "O, landlord, ypu did great to get us Unluckily, Dr. Welling could find no record of how this election turned out. Probably the 23d and 24th of Au gust came before election day arrived. THE YIDDISH DIALECT. JL Corrupt Ion of Hebrew That Exists In Every Community Where Jem Live. Yiddish will defy the definition of the smartest lexicographer, for not any one of these Could state in &, few words what constitutes the dialect, which is neverthelesss perfectly clear to every Jew. It evades definition be cause of its mixed nature, and because it is a different thing according to the latitude and longitude it inhabits. The Yiddish of Poland and Germany is very different from .that of the east end of London, though the latter ' is based in a very large measure on the former. In other words, says the Jewish Chronicle, it is influenced by its envi ronments, an expression of which the evolutionists. are so fond. The basis of Hebrew words, with their ancient encrustrations of who knows what which have clung to them in their wanderings through all climes and through the centuries, still goes on gathering' new influences day by hvy as it needs them, and so Yiddish is, like all other languages, an ever-shifting element, only perhaps .more. so. Bat all this we have known for a long time. .' . " .It is perhaps not so, generally known, however, that this same Yid dish in its turn exercises a consider able influence over its. neighbors and flowers the language of the Gentiles among whom it dwellsby many a tell ing and sigmhcant word and phrase. STRIKE FOR THE STOMACH. How to Attack Your Opponent When forced Into a Quarrel. "If you get into a quarrel -with a man and see .that you can't get out of it without a fight right then and there, forget that he has a head, pick out the. second button of his vest, and smash him on it as hard as you can. in ninety cases out oi a nunarea . you'll win the battle without another lick." Ned Donnelly snittea a bag- or boxing gloves under his arm as he de livered the injunction to a writer 'for. the Washington Post. "There is no foul about a stomach blow; it's only' when you get below the belt that you are open to criticism. Of" Course, you. are liable to hurt a man by hitting him in the stomach, but that .is what you are there for. ; Most people who pet into a sudden row I am speaking-, : of course, of those who haveinever been taught how to take' care or them selves go at each other hand over hand like a sailor climbing.up the rig ging, and they invariably try for each other's heads. As I said before, forget' your antagonist has a head if "you are forced into a fight. Just take .aim at the place whe,re you, think his chest protector 'stops and let drive at it. There is not one man in ten thousand can stand a crack there. It .takes months of training to make a man's 6tomach hard enough to receive even' a medium blow there. Then if you want to spoil his beauty and leave your vis iting' card with him in. the' shape of a black eye, you can do it at your leisure, for the fellow who is hit in the bread basket forgets all about his body above that, for the time being, anyhow." FLEEING FROM FOREST FIRE. The Experience of a Visito- to a Lumber Camp in Northern SlicUirn.t ' "The most exciting experience I ever had," said T. E. Spencer to a writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,"was in a forest fire near Manistee, Mich. I had visited a small lumber camp and retired to rest in one of the bunks pro vided for the choppers. I was awak Cnd by a strong light from the north, and, going outside of - the wooden shanty, it seemed to me that the entire world was on fire. It cracked and snapped, danced and jumped as if the demon of fire w,s .holding a high car nival and celebratinfj the end of the world. From every side could be heard sounds like the firing of cannon and the shrieks of human beings. It was the falling of the boughs and the sigh ing of the wind, but I never heard so horrible a sound, nor witnessed so weird and terrible a sight. Hastily awakening the other men in the camp, . I mounted a horse and fled from the flames. But the horse could not keep pace with the progress of the fire. The lurid heavens looked as 'though they were at molten heat; the air was stifling; the smoke almost suffocated me, while falling leaves and boughs burned my horse, and the sickening odor of burning flesh added to the hor ror. Within two or three hours I was in an opening, where I was no, longer in danger; but my horse was badly in jured, while my clothing was full of holes where embers had struck me. I wilt take my chances with cyclones or earthquakes, but not with a burning forest again." . What Goes to Slake Paper. Paper can be made out of almost anything that can bfe pounded to pulp. Over fifty kinds of bark are. employed. while old sacking or bagging makes a good article. Paper is. made out of banana skins, from bean stalks, pea vines, cocoanut fiber; clover and timo thy hay, straw, fresh-water weeds, sea weeds and more than one hundred aif- ferent kinds of grass. "Paper has been made from hair, fur and wool, from as bestos, which furnishes an article in destructible by fire; from hop plants, from husks of any and . every kind of grain. Leaves make .a good, strong paper, while the husks-. and stems of Indian corn have also been' tried, and almost every kind ef moss can be made into paper. . There are - patents for making paper from sawdust and shav ings, from thistles and thistle-down, from tobacco stalks and tan bark. It is said that there are over two thou sand patents in this country covering the manufacture of paper. No matter what the substance, the process is sub stantially the same; the material is ground to a pulp, then spread thinly over a frame and allowed to dry, the subsequent treatment depending on the kind of paper to be made. State ov Ohio, City of Toledo,) x Lucas County. : S Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J, Uhenev & (Jo., doing business in ine Citv of Toledo, county and state afore- said, and that said firm will pay tne sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the uee of Hall's Cataeeh Cube. " Fbank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day ot Uecember. ! A. U. lOOD. JX. W . VJiiiJlAOUJM , seal. Notary Public. ' Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mu cous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. . F, J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold .by druggists, 75c. " John Pashek, The .Merchant Tailor. 73 Court Stiet, I- Next door to Wasco Sun Offioe. Has Just received the latest Btyles in Suitings for Gentlemen,. and has a large assortment of Fort ten and Amer ican Cloths, which he Can finish To Order for those that favor him. Cleaning and Repairing a Specialty. CAUSE OF MANY DISEASES. Bacteria and How They Are Cultivated J and Studied bV Scientists. . ) Surgeon General Sternberg showed a large gathering of military men at the Army and Navy club recently how cholera and. other disease germs are cultivated at the Artny Medical mu seum, says the Washington Post. Ex periments in bacteriology are being conducted here under Dr.' Sternberg's supervision, and. he himself has an en viable record as a discoverer in this science. ,The lecturer, began- with a short historical " account of the discov ery of the germs of typhoid fever, glanders,- tuberculosis, leprosy, pneumonia, diphtheria, lockjaw and other diseases, which, he said, were propagated in one way or another by smalKgerms. These are classed as micrococi, when they are round as in diphtheria, as bacilli when they . are straight as in tuberculosis and as spirjlli when they are shaped like a corkscrew as in' the cholera germs. All .these 'are so small that when magnified two thousand times they have a diameter of sufficient size to be photographed. These germs are cultivated at the Medical museum in different mediums, chief of which is beef tea mingled with salt and gelatine. The lecturer: showed how the germs were taken from dead bodies and safely planted and trans planted so that they could be studied. There seemed to be some doubt in the minds of his hearers about the absolute safety of handling1 the deadly cholera germs, but the doctor said that they were very easily killed, and in some respects less to be feared than other germs. He said that heat was a won derful germicide, and that no germ could live after being exposed to a tem perature of one hundred and forty Fahrenheit. Some one suggested that if a man. could stand the boiling- it would be very easy to rid him of the cholera. .The doctor said that the chol era germs died on exposure to the sun light for twenty-four hours, but to make assurance doubly sure we were in the nahit of Killing h-.m with a sledgehammer.. The bacillus ot typhoid fever and of tuberculosis were very tenacious of life, which explained in part the prevalence of these diseases. All germs became attenuated when they were cultivated outside the hu man body, so that . after awhile they lost their power to attac k the subject violently. The germs .lived in watei sometimes for a long ' period ' anc when drank produced mild formi of disease. When reproduced ii the ' body they -recovered their vi tality. .Dr.' Sternberg said that influenza or the grip was found .to be a germ disease and its prevalence .was due to the fact that people give it off in their breath and take no precautions to prevent it. The popular idea that tobacco was a- preventive -. of "this class of disease was a' mistake, for a student once experimented and found that bacteria would nourish in a tobac co culture. Some germs could be killed by immersion for a long time in alco-. hoi, but the averaget germ would only laugh at old Kentucky or commissary whisky. ' WOOXS PHOSPHODINE. The Great En alii h Remedy. Promptly and permanently cures all forms of Kervous Weakness, Emissions, Sperm- ' otorrhea, Impotency and ail effects of Abuse or Excesses. Seen prescribed over S3 cars in thousands of cases; r, j- . r, laineoiuiljwiaoieanvxvni- "" est medicine known. Ask druggist for Wood's PhosDhodlnej if ho offers some worthless medicine in place of this, leave ma disnoneBt store. Inclose price in letter, and we will send by return mail. Price, one package, 1; six, 63. One will please, six KtUeure. Pamph let In plain sealed envelope, 2 cents postage. Address . The v-ood jChemlcal to,, 131 Woodward avenue. 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