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THE DALLES, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1897
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RDERED TO FLORIDA
Che Vesuvius and Dolphin
to Suppress Filibustering.
HE IS THE PASTES BOATT AFLOAT
he Government Han a 9urtItm of lie-
cetptfl for Ieot-mlier, the Sueolid
Buriilus of the Year.
Washington, Jan. 2. The dvnamite
uiser Vesuvius and the armed dispatch-
Lat Dolphin have been ordered toFlori-
i waters to reinforce the already nu-
erous fleet of government vessels now
ti gaged in an effort tj suppress filibuat-
ing expeditions bound for Cuba.
The Dolphin is at the Washington
ivy-yard, and probably will eail as
ion ub Bhe can get aboard tho necessary
ores and ammunition. Her captain,
lommander Clover, was at the navy
bpartment today consulting the officials
igarding the programe for the move
ents of his ship. Though a dispatch
ligBel. technically, the Dolphin would
li a formidable craft to a filibuster, not
much on account of her speed, which
about 15 knots, ub because of her ma-
line gnns, her main battery and. active
ew. She carries two 47-millimeter
dlotchkies guns, several Biz pounder
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Lino 01 me BHU1U LVJC, UUU lU luur 1IIU1J
pid-fire rifles. From his experience
chief of the hydrographic office, Com-
ander Glover is well fitted to navigate
is ship safely in the narrow channels
id passes of the Florida coaBt.
Tho Vesuviua should be particularly
eful in patrol duty, on account of her
beed. Twenty-one knots is her record
the trial, and there is nothing afloat
the Atlantic coast in the shape of a
erchantman or private vessel that
uld escape her in a fair run, with the
tasible exception of the yacht Vamoose,
d it is said it would be a "toss-up" be-
i at ireen them, with the odds in favor of
io dynamite vessel, owing to her super-
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JiesideH the dynamite guns, the Vesu-
iis has a small but effective battery
ado up of threo-pounder Hotchkies
ins, enough to stop anything short of
armored boat, within a distance of
iree miles. She draws only seven feet
water, and therefore will be able to
a llow the small filibustering craft mlo
ull lallow wator.
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The Vesuvius is now at the League
land navy-yard, fitting out rapidly for
rvice, after being out of commission
llOI i, l t.. Tf is ornontail aim
n go into commission on tue urn,
opehder command of Lieutenant-Corn-
lander Pillsbury, who has beeif de-
Iched from the naval war college.
The question was asked of treasury of-
:ials today what more, in the way ot
Ktrainins the department of vessels
tth arms for Cuba could be expected of
I I . I t Innra nb
fiozen warsnips man oi one, o iuk
Je Cuban boats are permitted to clear
lYSfe
ularly and according to law. No sat-
factory answer could be returned, but
ntoJappeared that tho officials are acting
rent
ider the belief that the clearance
heme is really intended for a blind,
Id the purpose of the Cubans is to
ive one or more relief boats slip away
lilethe authorities are looking after
Ft
e departure of vessels for which clear-
Ice papers are sought.
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BUKPLUH IN DKOBMBBBi
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Washington, Jan. 2. The monthly
mparatlve statement of the govern
ent's receipts and expenditures shows
e total receipts for December to have
en $25,857,114 ; expenditures, $23,812,
1, which leaves a surplus for the
onth of $2,044,456. For the six
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knths of the fiscal year, however, the
uclt is shown to be ,$37,902,SW7. mis
the second time within a year receipts
kvo exceeded expenditure.
Hie suroltiH this month is largely nc-
anted for by partial receipts from the
cent sale -of first mortgago bonds for
Pacific rail i nnds balancing to the
eotJntral Pacific sinking fund, which op-
paw in the statement as a repayment
the civil and miscellaneous exponen
ts. The independent board tran sac-
Ions surplus would have been about
$500,000. Receipts from customs in De
cember amounted to $10,779,412, an in
crease lor the month of about $800,000.
Internal revenue receipts aggregated
$53,198,098, a nominal gain over Novem
ber.
TO SAVE THE SEAt. HEKD8.
RcoommondBtinnn Made by Expert
Stejneger.
Washington, Jan. 2. An important
official contribution to the seal question
is the report compiled by Expert Leon
ard Ste jnegar,, of the national inuseuai,
on "Russian seal islands," just issued by
tiie United States fish commission.
The report is based upon two investi
gationp, one made during the palmiest
days of the fur-sealing industry, and the
other when Stejneger was sent as a spe
cial attache of the commission to in
quire into the recent decline of the seals
and to compare conditions of the past
thirteen years.
The report says the 30-mile zone stip
ulated in the Russian-British agreement
of 1893 baB been found utterly valueless
as a protective measure against pelagic
sealing.
Three causes have been assigned for
the decline of seal life on the seal islands
of Behring sea and the North Pacific
ocean. Excessive driving of, male seals,
raids on rookeries and pelagic sealing.
The report scouts the first two theories
and places the whole blame on pelagic
sealing. The Commander island seal
herds are being killed off so rapidly that
in a season or two it must become ut
terly unprofitable to hunt the animals
in the open sea.
These radical recommendations are
made :
Total and absolute prohibition of
pelagic sealing in the North Pacific
ocean and the Behring sea at all seasons
for at least six years, and after that time
total prohibition at all Beasons in
Behring sea and the Pacific ocean west
of the 175th deg. of east longitude and
north of the 52d deg. of north latitude,
or, if preferable, within a zone of 150
nautical miles from islands.
Total prohibition qf killing on land
for one year; after that time bachelor
seals to be taken on land not later than
August.
This scheme would involve support
ing the natives for one year and the
exterminatson of sledge dogs on the
Behring islands.
FLOOD AND 11L.IKKAKD.
Terrible Weather lit Mississippi Valley
States.
GincACio, Jan. 3. From all parts of
the West, reports of damage by flood
and storm during the last twentv-four
hours are coming. In Illinois, heavy
tain has fallen, streams are flooded,
making the roads impassable and dam
aging winter wheat. Joliet is threat
ened with one of the worst floods in its
history. Hickory and Spring creeks are
out of their banks, and the Desplaines
river and the lower level of the canal baB
raised sixteen inches today. Families
are moving out of their houses and low
lands are flooded. Water is sweeping
through tho lumber yards, and the
Rock Island track is submerged in the
vicinity of Lacon. Wheat has been
damaged badly by the twenty four
hours' rain, and the roadB are impass
able. The Sangamon river is rising,
threatening destruction to thousands of
bushels of corn. It has rained sixty
hours, and it is atill raining, but grow
ing colder.
In Northern Michigan the ram is also
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severe. Near Menominee, it uas ramea
for forty-eight hours. Logging hps been
suspended. Ice gorges at Fisher and
other points on the Menominee river
threaten serious consequences to Men
ominee and Marinette.
In Minnesota a blizzard raged all day
with alternating rain and sleet.
South Dakota suffered a severe snow-
storm, which prevailed all pay, ine
It is new to guarantee tea
satisfactory. Schilling's Best
is so guaranteed by your
grocer.
Why ? Because we sup
ply him the tea and the
money.
It is such tea as you will
be glad to get besides.
snow drifted and a railroad blockade is
feared.
Nebraska is suffering from the worst
blizzard it has experienced for years,
Snow was twelve inches on the level to
night, and the wind piled great drifts
six and seven feet high. Trains are de
layed in theN vicinity of Hastings. To
night a blinding snow is falling and a
sharp wind blowing. At Grand Island
there are several feet of snow in the
Union Pacific vards.
Judge Field's Condition Serious.
Washington, Jan. 2. Justice Ste
phen J. Field, of the United States
supreme court, is ill. Persons who called
at his house today to extend the com
pliment of the season, were informed he
was very feeble. Justice and Mrs. Field
announced in yesterday's paper that
they would not receive callers todav,
but those who asked about the Justice
obtained the impression that there was
great anxiety about his case.
Senator Taluier Is 111.
Sprikofield, 111., Jan. 2. Senator
Palmer is confined to his bed, and
threatened with pneumonia.
TEACHING BIRDS.
An
Interesting' Operation That
Requires Much Patience.
A Specially Constructed Organ Is Also
Necessary for the rurjiose Some
of tbe Airs Employed in
the Lessons.
Probably, not one reader in 1,000 ever
heard of a "bird organ" or saw
one. They are made only in France,
and are imported to this country
in small numbers, as dealers in mu
sical boSes have few calls for them,
and generally send for them only upon
orders from customers. .They are
made solely for teaching tunes to
canaries and bullfinches. A wooden
box about a foot square contains a
lnre roller covered with pasteboard
upon which brass pins are set accord
ing to the system used in preparing
the rolls of music boxes. Beneath the
roller is a small pair of bellows, and in
the back of the box is set a row of ten
metal pipes about llie size of a long
lead pencil. When the crank on the
outside of the box is rapidly turned
wind is forced into the pipes, as the
valves open when the metal tongue be
longing to each is struck hy a pin on the
roller. The music is therefore pro
duced on the principle of a et of
Pan's pipes, and is very shrill and high,
yet sweet and full.
The ten notes produced by the ten
pipes range from middle (3 in the staff
to li, above, or an octave and three notes.
That is, the bird music is written in the
octave used in the musical notation
for the human voice, but properly
would be written in an octave higher
when comparing the voice of a canary
wJlh the voice of a soprano. However,
the quality of the tones differ so great
ly that the shrill, clear pipe of the bird
makes its voice sound as if it wero
pitched much higher than is really the
ease.
The "bird organ" is pitched in exact
ly the same tone and key as the voice
if the canary, or perhaps this is put
ting the cart before the horse, for the
bird strikes faultlessly the key and
tone of the pipes. Jt is more accurate
to way, after all, that on the hand the
organs are pitched to be with the ca
nary's voice, as tho result of the ex
perience of the builders, and that the
canary shows wonderful power of im
itation iu falling in with tho tone qual
ities of its toaeher. If one note in the
organ is oil the key in the slightest de
gree tho bird takes the same tone, und
if it once learns that note wrong it
will always carry the blemish in the
harmony. AH of tho airs used in thesu
organs are written in the keys of G,
una sharp, or in C, and as they have
onlv the rnnce of ten notes, from (J
to 11, it is very difficult to adapt many
tunes to tho limitations of canurj
music. There is a dealer hi music boxes on
llidgo avenue who sells "bird organs"
mid writes music for the canary teach
ers, lie bun u drawer filled with man
uscript music which he bus arranged for
use in these "bird organs," and he also
puts tunes to order on the rollers. He
has bird organs which pipe a reper
toire of seven, airs, with "Mulligan
Guards," "Ytmkco Doodle," 'A Dream
of Love," Lucy Gray," "Dowu Went
McCUnty," and "You Can't Play in My
Yard,'"'.!!!! on one roller.
"One irno is nil that a tiNin tries to i
teach n canary," he said, "and he will
never let the bird hear more than that
one. He Ueejw the bird in a quiet room
while ho Is teaching it und doesn't let it
hear the voice of (mother bird. A ca
nary's brain is not very big.nndhegeta
his musical memory tangled it ho hears
more than the same old tune. 1 have
hoard of birds that could whistle two
aifs, but these are very rare, and it is
a risky undertaking. For when n
bird is working on the second tune
he is likely to get mixed with
the first, and then all your trouble's
gone for nothing. It's simply a ques
tion of time and patience. You've just
got to play the tune on the organ as
often as you gel a chance; the more
the better; you'll grind away for two
or three months, or longer, perhaps for
six months.
"If you have the luck to get a bright
bird, he'll begin to notice the tune iu
three months. At first he'll sing twoor
three bars, then falter and start over
again. When he has learned the air all
the way through his voice is weak and
uncertain, but it gets stronger and
more confident all the time. When he
once picks it up your troubles are over.
It's simply a matter of time and prac
tice then It's all luck in getting a
bright bird with a good ear, anil the
sweetest singer may turn out a failure
as a trained soloist. Bullfinches arc eas
ier to teach, but they are i'O short-lived
that the results are scarcely worth the
trouble. A canary will keep his voice
and memory for eight or ten years,
and he makes the sweetest music in
t he-world."
The German's patience nnd love of
music make him most successful in the
training of canaries, and nearly all
of the schooled songsters in Philadel
phia have been educntcd by GcriuaiiH.
The man has sold several at an average
price of about $100. There are many
curious industries in a great city, but
none more unusual Ahan the educating
of canaries, and the adding to one's in
come by selling "bird organs" nnd writ
ing music for these little soprano stars.
The music furnished is very simple, and
accidentals, grace, notes, runs and
quavers are ruled out. But the adnpter
has not an easy task with his imitation
of key and range, and earns all that he
gains in this unique fashion. Occa
sionally a customer calls for an air
which the adapter discovers cannot be
adapted to the vocal powers of the
canary, and is obliged to find a satisfac
tory substitute. "Home, Sweet Home."
is one of the sweetest, and easiest airs
for a canary 1o bo taught, and once
heard will linger always in the memory.
Philadelphia Press.
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A few fine Overcoats
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