I have just received a fine line of
Woolens in Suitings, Overcoatings and
Pantinge, and will be pleased to tave
you call and see them.
J. A. Eberte, Ife
Tfea Dalles Daily Ghfonicle.
SUBSCRIPTION Pities.
One week $ 15
One month 50
One year 6 00
TUESDAY
JUNE 13, 18 9
IS IT EXPEDIENT?
The annual worry incident to the
demands of graduation from the
high school is taxing the energies
and straining the financial resources
of a score of families, more or less,
in this city at the present time, and
of a multitude throughout the
country. A bevy of young women
educated in the main without the
slightest reference to the reasonable
requirements cf their future lives,
daughters of work-a-day parents who
are straining every nerve to bring
up their children intelligently and to
provide for their bodily comfort, are
being bedecked for the graduating
occasion in a style tiiat lays heavy
tribute upon the domestic purse, and
perhaps foredooms the rest of the
family from the father down to the
nursling (and certainly the self-sacrificing
mother) to go shabbily clad
for half a year.
This' is one of a number of ways
in which our grand system of com
mon school education has grown into
a heavy tax upon its supposed or in
tended beneficiaries. It will be said,
of course, that judicious parents, who
cannot afford to spend from ;$25 to
$50 in this way, should be independ
ent enough to refuse to comply with
the demand of custom and dress the
daughter for the occasion simply and
in accordance with their means.
But this is shallow, being wholly at
variance with human nature. Talk
as we may about independence, the
fact remains that this principle is
not a ruling force in the domain of
fashion that, in fact, it has seldom
been introduced therein, and never
except to be quickly frowned down
and out.
The very spirit that urges parents
who cannot afford to spend the sum
ol money required by the present
graduating custom to enter and keep
up with the grand educational pro
session, often at the cost of the most
pitiful and pinching economy in the
essentials of life, is the basis of the
high school structure. The idea is to
give the children of the poor the "ad
vantages" of a more or less ornate
education, equal in all respects to
those which the wealthy may buy for
their children; to bridge, so to speak,
the channel between two distinct
stations in life and merge them into
one.
Having been encouraged to do
this, is it reasonable to expect par
ents to fail at the last moment to
meet the requirements of the situa
tion? Is it any wonder that it is
decided in family council that Mat
tie, or Mamie, or Jennie, must have
an overdress ot organdie and lace,
over a white satin petticoat, though
mother's rusty serge must again be
darned and turned; that she must
have white kid slippers, though John
ny cannot go to Sunday school be
cause he is barefoot ; that fatbei 's
battered old hat will "have to do,"
bat a "class pin" must be bought?
These are homely, commonplace
things, but they represent conditions
thai are familiar in myriads of beset,
straightened households today. The
weary mother, striving, with an In
adequate knowledge of "slj'les," to
make the girl's graduating dress her
self and thus save something toward
the ribbons and flowers at the ex
pense, as one recently expressed it,
of her own "blood and bones." (She
was not a high school graduate,
otherwise she would have said at the
expense of her "vitality.") Anxious
fathers, chafing under the strain but
striving manfully to meet it; fagged
young women, approaching the oc
casion as one might approach a
dentist's chair and wishing it were
all over friends, is it not true that
we have encouraged a growth upon
our educational system that bears no
relation whatever to real education?
In completing a course of study at
the public schools, have we not
grown into a display that apes wealth
without compassing its advantages?
Since individual parents are power
less in the -matter from reasons that
are clearly patent, is it not time that
the brakes were put upon the ma
chine by those in control, to the end
that its headlong course be arrested
and its movements be made to con
form more strictly to the needs of
the public? In short, is it not lime
that, with all our getting, we should
Strive to get understanding? Ore
gonian.
K(a!
Dyspepsia Cure.
Digests what you eat.
It artificially digests the food and aids
i'uouiD xii eiieugiueuiu ana recon
structing the exhausted digestive or
gans. It is the latest discovered digest
ant and tonic. No other preparation
can approach it in efficiency. It in
stantly relieves and permanently cures
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, - Heartburn,
Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea,
SickHeadache,Gastralgia, Cramps, and
all other results of imperfect digestion.
Prepared by E. C OeWItt A Co.. Cfelcaao.
For sale by Snipes-Kinersly Drug Co.
A Beautiful Skin.
Ladies, If yon desire a transparent, clear and
fresh complexion use Dr. Bourdon's French
Arsenic Complexion Wafers. Their effect is
simplv mimical, possessing the wizard touch
in producing and preserving a beautilul trans
parency and pellucid clearness of complexion,
shapely contour of form, brilliant ejes, soft
aim Biuuoijj eKin wnere me reverse exists. Jiven
the coarsest and most repuisive skin, marred by
freckles, moth, blackheads, pimples, vulgar
redness, yellow und muddy skin are permanent
ly removed, and a dclicioasly clear and refined
complexion assured.
Price per small box, 60 cents; large box, 1, or
six large boxes, $5. Bent to any address post
paid aud under plain wrapper upon receipt of
the above amount. Write for free circular.
The Parisian Drug Co.,
131 Montgomery 3t,Saa Franeidjo Cal,
741SSif!
Ta ja Restores VI 'I'AtiTV,
P S LOSTV'GOR
i & 1amd manhood
Cures Impotency, Niglit Emissions and
wasting diseases, ail effects of seif-
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feSiL J cretion. A nerve tonic and.
blood, builder. Brings the
pink glow to pale cheeks anc"
pSi restores the fire of youth.
ifiiiS By mailSOeper box; G boxes
for $5.50; with a written guaran
tee to cure or refund, tiie money.
NERVITA MEDICAL CO.
Clinton & Jackson Sts, CHICAGO, SLU
PROFESSIONALS.
JJ A. STURDEVANT,
Dentist.
Office over French fc Co.'s Bank
Phone 6, THE DALLES, OREGON
JR- GEISENDOBFFEE
Physician and Surgeon, ,
Special attention given to surgery. -Booms
21 and 22, Tel. S28 Vogt Block
FEED. W.WIL80N,
ATTORN ET-AT LAW,
THE DALLES, OREGON.
Oflice ovei First Nat. Bin.
B 8 HUNTINGTOK H WILSON
HUNTINGTON WILSON,
ATTOBNEYS AT LAW,
THE DALLES, OREGON
Office ott rst Nat. Bans:
Branch Office
Oregon Viavi Company,
. Room 7, ovei French's Bank.
Office hours, ' Charlotte F. Roberta,
2 to 4 J. m- ; , Local Manager.
Free health lecture every Thursday t S p. m
White House Clothing Company.
sw. kjj Ljii Niiijti
A " "M
OUR IMMENSE STOCK OF
SHOES
MUST BE CLOSED OUT
IN THE NEXT 15 DAYS
COME AND SECURE BARGAINS.
NO HUMBUG.
AT YOUR OWN PRICE.
White House Clothing Company,
166 SECOND STREET, THE DALLES.
A good
drug sign..
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You well know that a good dreg sign
ia the patronage which ia bestowed on
the store. It is the purity of the goods
handled and the manner of doing busi
ness that makes and keeps this business.
We are pleased with the result of our ef
forts to supply the best drugs . at the
best price. We are particular about the
compounding of them.
Simplicity
Durability
Rockford Quick Shot'
12-Plate Magazine Camera.
Quick Sellers
No Complaints
"Turn the lever and you are ready for
another." No plate holders with slides
to draw. No sleeve or changing bag. No
chance to fog plates. No failures. -
- If you want 12 pictures quick, buy the
"Quick-Shot, 'J the only magazine cams
era that holds the plates securely after
they are exposed. No rattling or break
ing of plates. Beet on earth. .
3K4K $6.00
4x5 $9.00
With one dozen plate holders.
Manufactured under the Conley patents by the
Rockford Silver Plate Co.,
ROCKFORD, ILL.
We sell only through local agents. Ask our I
agents to show you this "Quick Shot "
The Dalies. Fortlaei and Astoria
Navigation Co.'
The Snipes- Kinersly Drug Co.
AGENTS, 1 he Dalles, Oregon.
RELIABLE PHARMACISTS.
175 Second Street. THE DALLES
Tile GolnniHa FacKing Go.,
, PACKERS OF
PORKand BEEF
. MANUFACTURERS OF
Fine Lard and Sausages
Curersof BRAND
HAMS & BACON
jRIED BEEF, ETC.
NEER BAKERY.
I have re-opened this -well-known Bakery,
and am now prepared to supply every
body with Bread, Pies and Cakes. Also
all-kinds of Staple and Fancy Grocer es.
GEORGE RUCH, Pioneer Grocer.
- r'f
Uasco Warehouse Company
Headquarters for Seed Grain of all kinds.
Headquarters for Feed Grain of sii kinds!
Headquarters for Rolled Grain, au kinds.
Headquarters for Bran, Shorts, SEKSS,
Headquarters for "Byers Best" Pendle-
t.fiTI yi miT This Flour ia mannfactnred expressly for family
J, uoe : every Back ia jrnaranteed to give satisfaction.
We sell oar goods lower than any faonse in the trade, and if you don't think so
call and get oar prices and be conYinoed.
Highest Prices Paid for Wheat, Barley and Oats.
Ste Regulator d Dalles City
Daily (except Sunday) between
The Dalles,
Hood River,
Cascade Locks,
Vancouver
and Portland.
Touching at way points on both sides of the
Columbia riyer.
Both of the above steamers have been rebuilt,
and are in excellent shape for the season of 1899.
The Keenlstor Line will endeavor to give its
patrons the best service possible.
For Comfort, Economy and Pleasnre,
travel by the steamers of The Regulator
The above steamers leave The Dalles at 8 a. m.
and Portland at 7 a. m., and arrive at destina
tion in amplo time for outgoing trains.
Portland Office. The Dalles Office.
Oak St. Dock. Court Street
W. C. Allaway,
General Agent.
private
Boardii7iou5
Table board
$16 per morjtl?
Qor. 4tt) arjd U9I09.