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CO no. ? y THE DALLES, OREGON, MONDAY; APRIL 9, 1894. COLUMBIAN MEDALS .Hot Issue! Yet Because the Desip Still Hangs Fire. ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE FARMER The PresidenKof the Canadian Pacific Predicts Two Dollars a Bushel ' for Wheat Colombian Medal Not Issued. Washington, April 7. John Boyd Thatcher, chairman of the world's fair committee of awards, wants the world's fair medals issued at once. He is not so particular about the design as are the members of the senate committee. Neither does he share the views of Sec retary Carlisle as to the artistic short comings of the design submitted by St Gaudens. A ribbon or fig leaf on the modified figure doesn't make any differ ence to Mr. Thatcher, and he wants the medals completed at once. He and Hep resentative Strauss, of New York, called npon Secretary Carlisle today, and urged him to push the work on the medals to an early completion. Mr. Carl'le ex plained that the original design hud been rejected, and that the amended design recently submitted was little better. He explained further that Artist St. Gaudens had been requested to make further changes, and that until these were made to the satisfaction of the director of .the mint and the art critics, who constitute the senate committee on quadro-cen-tennial, the medals could not be used. The obverse side of the medal has been finished and is waiting for completion of the disputed reverse side. As soon as the controversy is settled and St. Gaud ens submits a design that is thoroughly acceptable, the department will proceed with the work. In the meantime John Boyd Thatcher will have to contain him- : self in patience, and so will Mr. Strauss and others interested in the matter. their favor. Experience with weights. as well as calculations, show that any of the vessels would stand on its stem with a heavy gun placed forward. It would not be poseible further to instal heavy ordnance on any part of the ship, owing to its light construction and little deck space. Only-the lightest rapid-nnng and machine guns could be used at all, and for this reason the board recom mended that the whalebacks could not Vn pnnntprl nnon for auxiliary cruisers in time of war. They Objected to Ute Charge. Midwinteb Faib, San Fkancisco, April 7. A nitched battle occurred in the streets of Carlo, at the midwinter fair, this afternoon. The large gates at both entrances were besieged by a howl inn band of infuriated Assyrians, armed with cutlasses, hatchets and beams with which they proceeded to batter down the eates. The move was directed against the gate charge of 15 cents to the inhabitants of the streets of Carlo, which the concessionaire maintained against the protest of the subconcession- aires. The latter are reported as having sworn over crossed swords last night that the objectionable barrier would be removed, hence today's charge. Thjp guards hurried to the scene and quiet was soon restored. THE EARTH'S INTERIOR. No THE PRICK OF WHEAT. A. Prediction mt Two Dollars Made by tbe Canadian Pacific President. Toronto. Ont., April 7. President ' Van Horn, of the Canadian Pacific rail road, in the course of an interview here this afternoon on the present conditions of the wheat crop, said that the price of wheat will eo to $2 per bushel within the next 18 months. Mr. Van Horn, after estimating the world's total annual product at between 2,600,000,000 and 2,700,000.000 bushels, said : ' "Last year farmers received but little more than the cost of production for their wheat, while in many instances the return per bushel was smaller than the expenditure. This can only have one effect the discouragement of wheat producers and the consequent de crease of acreage. If there is a decrease . of 10 per cent in wheat production this year, on account of the low prices of last year, there will be a shortage of 275,000, 000 bushels, and 10 per cent of a decrease is well within the mark. . Ae far as I can remember there has never been a surplus of 150,000,000 bushels. This year the surplus has been used up by feeding to stock, and we will probably start in with as nearly clean sheets sb ever before. If there is a shortage of but 150,000,000 bushels, this will not be discovered until too late to sow more wheat and wheat will go up with a jump." A French Scientist's New Theory on a Mnch-Discossed Subject. The question which is aV present more seriously exercising- pnysicisis and causing the most marked divisions of opinion among them is that of the constitution of the . earth's interior, says an exchange. By some we are told that withm the crust is raging a liquid fire of gases; by2 others that the firo is not gaseous, but merely incan descent solid matter, while a third sec tion cafhtends that the center of the earth isnot in a molten state at all, that what little heat still exists is being rapidly radiated, and that ere loner the earth, will be a solid rock throughout. The most recent contribution on the subject is that, made by M. Lateau to the French academy of sciences. In his judgment the phenomena of the earth's crust are explained by regard ing its interior as molten, but he as sumes that a layer of gaseous matter separates it from a portion' of the crust forming the continents, whereas the sea beds sink. This theory, M. Lateau thinks, explains why volcanoes have successivclv receded inland where the sea. has encroached, though it scarcely supplies an explanation for the exist ing marine volcanoes. The gradual escape of gases imprisoned under high pressure will, we are told, excel in time the production of new supplies. and when the pressure diminishes the continents will fall in and a. more or less craterif orm config-uration of the earth's surface will be the result. This is the condition of the moon's surface at the present time, and M. Lateau be lieves its appearance is due to action similar to that which he supposes to be in progress in the in tenor of th is planet. The physical essentials of this theory assume the, crust of the globe to be eighteen and one-half miles thick, the pressure of gases six hundred and fifty atmospheres, their temperature nine hundred, degrees centigrade and their density nearly equal to that of water. Whatever may be .thought of this view, as a reasonable explanation it has the merit of combining, in a measure, the two most prominent theories on the subject. for Lard. That's the happy and healthy condition of thous ands of housekeepers who have been bright enough to try Sottolen THE NEW SHORTEIiillG, which is a pure, perfect and popular substitute for lard for all cooking purposes. The success of Cotto lene has called out worth-; less imitations with similar ' color and similar names. Look out for these. "AH that glitters is not gold," and all that's yellow is not COTTOLENE. ' There is but one valuable new shortening, and that is Cottolene. It is healthful, delicate and economical as a single trial will prove. " At leading Grocers; Watch the name. REFUSE ALL SUBSTITUTES. N. K. FAIRBANK & CO., Bole Manufacturers, ST. LOUIS and CHICAGO, NEW YORK, BOSTON. AMUSING BLUNDERS. Desperate Whalebacks Would Not , War Vessels. Washingtpn, April ' 7. Make Good -The naval board appointed to investigate the feasi bility of converting the whaleback type of ship into auxiliary' war cruisers has reported that these vessels do not pre sent features which would make them useful as commerce destroyers, or ' fight ing ships, on account of the impossibility of mounting them with heavy ordnance. The board was designated by Secretary Herbert several mouths ago to report upon the proposition of a western ship builder, who believed it impossible to make formidable coast-defense ships out of the whalebacks by mounting them with heavy, high-powered guns. Their low free-board, which makes them in measures like monitors, was also in Mrs. Emily Thorne, who resides at Toledo, Washington, says she has never been able to procure any medicine for rheumatism that relieves the pain so auicklv and effectual! v as Chamberlain's Fain .Balm and that she has also used it for lame back with great success. For sale by Blakeley & Houghton, druggists Go to the Columbia Packing Co.'s Central Market for choice sugar cured ham, at 12 cents a pound. Ask your grocer for Columbia Packing Co.'s smoked meats and lard. Insist on. their prices and accept no substitute. .Boneless bams at 11 cents ; select breakfast bacon at 12 cents per lb; chice kettle leaf lard, 5-lb pails, 55 cents ; 10-lb pails at $1 at the Columbia Pack ing Co. '8 Central Market, There is no necessity for buying East ern smoked meats and lard when you can secure a better article of home pro duction for less money. Call at the Central Market and examine the Col ombia Packing Co.'s meats and prices, and be convinced. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report. ABSSULTIEEif PJJSE This space will contain something inter esting to-morrow. A. M. WILLIAMS & CO. Situations of Diffident Young Orators. Some amusing1 examples of uninten tional transpositions are given m a re cently-published collection of "liuiis and Blunders." Slips of the kind usually result from nervousness rather than from ignorance, but it is a ques- tion which was responsible in the case of the pompous colored preacher who told his flock that it was "easier for a camel to go through the knee of an idol than for a rich man to enter Heaven." Not so in the case of the courtly and cultivated George William Curtis, who. it is said, was so overcome with, stage fright- when he commenced his first lecture that instead of the reference to the bottomless pit which he intend- ed to make, he astonished his hearers bv beginning tremulously: "Latlies and gentlemen,- the pittom- less uott . The crowninc specimen of ludicrous helpli-ssness in the face of elusive syllables is that of the unfortunate speaker who, at a pathetic point of his address, when his hero was about to undergo a heartrending parting- from home and friends, uttered, in his most melting voice: - ' . - "Biddy, diddy--" . He stopped confused; flushed, sef his mouth and tried again with a difficult resumption of the interrupted pathos: "Diddy. biddy" Something was'wrong still. - He gTew scarlet, perspired, and gasped forth a third attempt, not more intelligible His bearers could none of thorn inter pret it. It might be High German, or it might be a Mother Goose refrain: - "Diddy, hiddy, biddy doo'." - The situation was desperate: but the persistent orator rallied, paused until he had fully recovered his self-control and trying once more, with slow-utterance and distinct enunciation, con quered at length the simple phrase which had overthrown him. He said: "Did he bid adieu?" Some Queer Poisons In Tobacco. Chemists say Turkish tobacco con tains prussic acid and Cuban tobacco has another alkaloid called collidine, one-twentieth of a drop of which will kill a frog, giving the creature all the symptoms of paralysis. Experiments have proven that three drops of the liquor that accumulates in the bowl of the pipe will Kill a rabbit in nine min utes. A drop of pure nicotine inserted near the conjunctiva of any small an imal will kill it almost instantly; eight drops will kill a horse, giving him frightful convulsions. If one drop of the stuff would give a man convulsions one day it ivould take two the next, four on the third, etc.,Vhich shows how readily th e system adapts itself to poison. ' ' " Stockholders . Meeting. PROGRESS IN AFRICA. Notice is hereby given that there will be a meeting of the stockholders . of the Wasco Independent Accademy, at the accademy building, in Dalles City on Thursday, May 10th, 1894, at 2 o'clock p. m. tor tbe purpose of. electing seven directors, and transacting - such other business- as may properly come before said meeting. By order of the president.' tmlOth ,H. H. Riddell, Secy." Photos $1 postofBce. per dozen at gallery over C. W. Gilhousen. A Country That Is Slow to Adopt the Customs or ClTUization. As a continent it is the home of a vigorous race ol manKina, wnicn, while resisting assimilation with Eu ropean civilization, defies permanent conquest. According to the Nineteenth Century, it views with equanimity, or at least is powerless to resent, the oc cupation of its coasts and the more healthy contiguous regions; but tne heart of the continent remains, andj must ever remain, the home of . the African. Allied races, and people who have for .centuries undergone the scarcely perceptible process of accli matization, may, it is true, eltect a lodgment in the heart of Africa; but if they remain there, they themselves eventual!' undergo absorption into the primitive elements of the population or suffer total extinction. Nature -has, in short, marked off tropical Africa as the abiding home of the black races. . European travelers, traders, missionaries, conquerors may at their will and at their peril pene trate into this dark sanctuary, but their sojourn is for a day, and on the morrow the faint traces of their pas sage are obliterated bv the exuberant growths of barbarism. Grudgingly as it is sometimes conceded, it is never theless a fact that the bulk of the con tinent of Africa is still untouched by western civilization. I, for one, can not believe that Africa will ever be Europeanized or brought within the pale of western progress. For, in or der that Africa may progress, n is ab solutely essential that it be developed along natural lines; but, as yet, the inherent powers of native genius have neither been' discovered, nor, in the absence of any cohesion among native tribes, and in view of European rapaci ty, are they, even if discovered, ever likely to be encouraged or fostered. No; Africa is a continent fated to be conquered and exploited by the heirs of civilization, to whom it may pay tribute, but homage never. An odd illustration once given Em erson, the philosopher, of the fact that the laws of disease -are as beautiful as the laws of health is reported in his lecture on "The Comic." . 'I was hastening," he says, "to visit an old and honored friend, who, I was informed, was in a dying' condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me in great spirits. " 'And how is my friend, the reverend doctor? I inquired. ' V ' 'Oh, I saw him this morning1. It is the most correct apoplexy I have ever seen; face and hands livid, breathing stertorous, all the symptoms perfect.' And he rubbed his hands with de light, for in the country we cannot find every day a case that agrees with the diagnosis of the books." - - : Mistaken Consumptives. - In the treatment of lung and bronchial diseases -the liver is often implicated to such an extent that a hepathic remedy becomes necessary in effecting a cure of the lungs. In the 7 treatment of each cases I prescribe Simmons Liver Regu lator with entire satisfaction. . T. L. St.enbnson, M. D.,Owensboro,Ky. Now is the time to kill squirrels. Sor Shot at Snipes & Kinersly's. Sure Shot Squirrel Poison at Snipes & Kinersly's. - EEESs1 for Infants and Children. EfgiHlRTY years' observation of Castoria with the patronage of H millions of persons, permit os to speak: of it without guessing It is unquestionably' the best remedy for Infants and Children the world has ever- lmonra. It Is harmless. 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