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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
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The success of Cotto
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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.
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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. -
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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. Children like it. It
gives them health. It will save their lives.- In it Mothers have,
1 something which in ahsolntely safe and practically perfect si St
child's medicine. -
Castoria destroys 'Worms. ( "-' " i
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Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd.
Castoria cures Piarrhoaa and 'Wind Colic. '
Castoria relieves Teething Trophies. ' '
Castoria euros Constipation and Tlatnlency.
Castoria nentraliaes the effects of oarbonio acid gaa or poisonous
Castoria does not contain morphine, opium, or other narcotic property.
Caatoria assimilates the food, regulate the stomach and bowels, :
friving haHhy and natnral sleep. '
Costoria is pnt np in one-size bottles o-oly. tt is not sold in hnlfc.
Don't allow any one to sell yon anything else on the plea or promise
that it i"jnt as good" and "will answer every purpose.
See that yon -t C-A-S-T-O-R-I-A.
The fae-simile
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ChMdren Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.
"T i-i E3 O
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What ?
Hand-Corded Corsets, ' Health Reform Waists,
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Shoulder Braces and Hose Supporters made to order.
Where ?
At the Pacific Corset Company's Factory, north
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tory and examine our goods, or drop a card in the
office, and our agent will call and secure your order.