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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-12-19
THE CHURCHES.

CT PETERS CHURCH-Rev Father BRoSs-
y GEEsT Pastor. Low Mass every Sunday at
IA. N. High Mass at 1880 A. M. Vespers at
CT. PAUL'S CHURCH-Union Street, opposite
y Fifth. Rev. Eli d. Sutcliffe Rector. Services
every Sunday at II A. N. and 7:3Q P. NJ. Sunday
School 9:45 A. NJ. Evening Prayer on Friday at
7:so
EIRSI BAPIIsT ~ GaURCHmReev; .oL8.e 0: D: TAY- AY
bath at the academy at II A. NJ. Sabbath
School Immediately after morning services
Union services in the court house at P. NJ.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-Rev. w. C.
~ CURTIS Pastor. Services every Sunday at IL
a. NJ. and P. NJ. Sunday School after morning
service. Strangers cordially invited. Seats free.
M Z. CHURCH-Rev. A. C. SPENCER, pastor
Nls Services every Sunday morning. Sunday
School at 1920 O'Clock P. NJ. cordial invitation
is extended by both pastor and people to all.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-12-19

The oregonian's Washington cores
pondent telegrsphs under date of
December 49,: ''The best guess tonight
is that w. Lair Hill will be selected for
one of the circuit judges in theninih dis
trict. Something that the Montana
men have learned very lately has caused
them to lose all hope of the selection OF
Judge Knowles and they believe that
the president has decided on Hill. So
far as can be learned nothing but COM
mendation has been spoken of Mr.. Hill
even by those who were pressing other
candidates Nothing is said of Joe
Simon any more than if he was out
of the race altogether.
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FOOLISH ECONoMY.

''The fifty-second congress is going to
be an economical one" says the Astor-
ian. "No extrayagant appropriations
are going to be made. So the demo-
cratic majority announce. That's busi-
ness. But the result will be in accord
ance with the majority's idea of
economy Already it is given out that
there will be very little for river and
harbor appropriations. That is not
economy. That is folly. There are
many deserving improvements going on
that if checked will cost more to COM
plete than if wise appropriations were
made now. Economy is a good thing.
Economy is simply the judicious ex-
penditure of ones income. There are
times when it is economy to save five
cents. There are times when it is econ
omy to spend $1,000, As with indi-
vlduals so with nations. We must all
applaud economy, but in the light OF
Cleveland's vetoe of the appropriation
for the improvement of the mouth of the
Columbia at an important point in the
progress of that necessary project. we
have cause to congratulate ourselves that
the great work has so far advanced that
no narrow policy of national economy
can greatly hinder its successful compile
ton.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-12-19

The Times Mountaineer says it is abso-
lutely solvent. Well, who said it
wasn't? Tho editor of the CHRONICLE
would be unfeignedly sorry if it were
otherwise. 1t seeks no mans ruin and
hopes the Mountaineer may live as long
as it deserves to-: but it won't prolong
its existence by such breaks as it made
last night. An editor of a newspaper,
making any pretensious to respecta-
hility. should never forget that he ought
to be gentleman. He owes that much
to his readers, if not to himself.
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A Goaa showing For Oregon.

All county assessors have returned
their tax rolls, except Yamhill, snd
counting it the same as last year, the
total taxable property in the state is
nearly 1855, ,000, 900, being nearl $12, ,000,-
600 more than last years rolls from the
thirty-one counties. The board, has
adopted plan of equalization on cattle,
etc., in all the counties west of the
mountains. There Will be added or de-
Quoted such per cent as to make assess
nent on horses $50 and east of the
mountains about half of this. This will
make a raise of 80 per cent in Clackamas
county, ~ in Coos and jackson, 25 in
Linn and 80 in Clatsop. Cattle will be
assesssd at about $3.50, which makes Il
raise OF 10 per cent in Clackamas, jack
son, Multnomah and Linn, and the
same reduction in Columbia and Wash
ington. a uniform rate of $1.60 per
head for sheep is being discussed and
will no doubt be adopted. In most
face, while in Muitnomah at only 90 pei
cent; this will be equalized. Horses
are now all the way from $40 in Bakel
to s54 in Multnoinah. cattle from sS IL
Union to $l7 in Columbia and sheer
from 81 III Coos to 50 in Tillalnook anc
Gillian Multnonah's assessor failed tt
give the footings of the number OF acres
Of land, and this greatly retards tn,
work OF the board Railroad land il
assessed from 45 cents to $50 and tlmbe
land from $1.95 to sl3.0i.
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NoRrHwEsr NEWS.

At North Powder, last Monday, a fire
broke out in the planning mill of Stod-
dard Bros, entirely destroying the pla-
mug mill and machinery and about 300,
600 feet of lumber, rs 900 shingles and
one box car. The loss is about $4,000.
"a rich man at Salt Lake IS reported to
be working up scheme for the coloniz-
alton of Eastern Oregon, and 100000
acres of farming lands are wanted along
the railroad line in Union and Baker
counties. His head is level on the loca-
ton.
So far as Oregon is concerned it is Joe
Simon or nobody for the circuit judge
ship. Then let it be nobody. Better
that the commonwealth should be un-
represented in the federal judiciary than
such as he be elected to that dignity
Historian.
A hired man of Byron, Michigan, lost
box of cartridges while cutting wheat
and could not find them. The box was
found in good condition the other day by
the thrashsrs. When they stopped run
ming the box had exhausted itself and
one of the thsashers had a hole in his
ear.
Last Saturday, near Eugene, young
man named Davis. while at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Cleek, tried the hammer
of his gun to see if it worked right. The
physicians who amputated Mrs. Cleeks
leg think they may save their patient.
The gun worked all right. 1t always
does under such circumstances.
1 4
of the Lake Labish disaster have been
brought against the Southern Pacific
railroad company in which judgments
have been obtained. These cases are ::
Silas Leonard, $3.50; Julius Kumh,
$500; G. w. johnson, $22OO; John
Rauh, $4,000; Jane Clark, $4,000; Grace
B. Isaacs, $11 900. Thus making total
of $40, ,450.
But recently Albertsop, a Tacoma
bank cashier, compelled the bank to
condone his criminality by promising
him immunity if he returned the $780,
600 in securities, with which he had
fed. That was the sublimity of rascality
and read like chapter from a sensa-
tional novel; the letter, the boat, the
IOCky SIlOTS, Lllc lDOuuIdlu I6GT6aI, GQ6
'fsleuth houn''s," and all the rest of it.
Last Tuesday he got two years in the
pen. In two years he will be pardoned.
The moral is little mixed.
The Union Pacific has made reduc-
tion of rates on the following articles ::
On lime from Spokane to Portland, so
cents per hundred pounds in carload
lots; this rate to go into effect December
10Th. After December 22nd the rate on
junk in carload lots from Spokane to
Portland Will be 40 cents per hundred
pounds. On onions and potatoes the
rate from Walla Walla to Spokane in
straight carload lots will be 25 cents per-
hundred pounds.
This is said to be only beginning in
the reduction of rates contemplated by
the Union Pacific.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-12-19

Under the new tariff law the revenue
of the national government has fallen off
about $40 10000 during the past five
months. This means that the consum-
ers have paid forty millions less taxes
during that time. This is a fact, not
theory and the friends and enemies alike
of the Mckinley law can draw their own
conclusions.
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The Old and the New.

''Of course it hurts but YOU must grin
and bear it, is the old time consolation
given to persons troubled with rheuma-
tism. ''If you will take the trouble to
dampen piece of flannel with Cham
berlain's Pain Balm and bine it on over
the seat os pain your rheumatism will
disappear" is the modern and much
more satisfactory advice. so cent bot
ties for sale by Snipes & Kinersly, drug
gists. d&w
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MAIN TAPPING UNDER PRESSURE

We have purchased first class tap
ping machine and are now prepared to
do main tapping under pressure, thereby
saving the expense and annoyance to
our customers of shutting off water to
tap the main. MAYS & GROVE.
12-12-tf
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NOTICE.

have it marked care of Holman & Co.,
Portland, Or, who will transfer all
freight to the Dalles Portland & Astoria
Navigation Co.
HOLMAN & Co.
Draymen and forwarders,
No. "a n. Front street,
1922 1922 Portland, Or.
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For Sale At a Bargain .

The Mission Gardens, greenhouse,
stock and fixtures. / am prepared to
offer rare bargain owing to change in
residence. For terms enquire at the
premises or of a. n. Varney at the land
Office.
15tf. J. A. VARSEY.
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The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-12-19
SOCIETIES.

A SsEMBLY NO. 1927, K. OF L.-Meets in K.
n of P. hall the second and fourth Wednes-
days of each month at 80 p. m. So
UTASCO LODGE, NO. Is, A. F. & A. M--Meets
w first and third Monday of each month at Z
P. N.
nALLEs ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER NO. O.
IL Meets in Masonic Hall the third Wednesday
of each month at p. NJ.
MODERN wooDMEN OF THE WORLD
INl Mt. Hood Camp No. IS. Meets Tuesday even
ing of each week in the K..of p Hall, at 80 P. NJ
COLUMBIA LODGE, NOS, l. Q. %. F:--Meets
~ every Friday evening at 7:30 O'Clock, in K.
of P. hall, corner Second and Court streets.
Sojourning brothers are welcome.
H. CLoUGH, Sec'y. II. A BILLS, n. G.
FRIENDSHIP LODGE, NO. O., K of P.-Meets
Il every Monday evening at 7:30 O'Clock, in
Schanno's building, corner of Court and Second
streets. Sojourning members are cordially in
vited. w. S. CRAM.
d. w.vAUsE, X. of R. and S. c.. C.
VTFOMENS CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE
w UNION will meet every Friday afternoon
at O'Clock at the reading room. Allare invited
V,EMPLE LODGE NO. 3, A. o. U. w.-Meets
Il at K. of P. Hall, Corner Second and Court
Streets, Thursday evenings at 80.
JOHN FILLooN,
WIS MYERS, Financier. II. w
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-21

SENTIMENT VS.. JUSTICE.

Walter L. Russ, publisher of the
Waif, of Lawrence, and once a convict
in the Kansas penitentlary for shooting
a man is now lecturing for the purpose
of improving our so-called reformatory
institution, in the interest of prisoners.
He claims that from a mans first en-
trance into the penitentiary until he
leaves the chief end seems to be to
humiliate and punish him; unman him,
and instead of reforming him, send him
out only prepared to do worse things.
He says the fault is in the law.
1t is an old axiom that mo culprit's
felt the halter draw with good opinion
of the law" The Prison Reform associa-
ton at its stated meetings has far years
been devoting its most earnest endeavors
right to that point, and after long and
careful study and investigation of the
object the conclusion has been arrived at
the efforts that have been put forth for the
amelioration of the condition of the in
mates of the prisons have not been
productive of the results hope for, either
in reforming the inmates of the prisons
or in restraining the evilly inclined from
the commission of crime And in view
of the fact that penalties are inflicted as
much for their restraining influence
upon others as for punishment to the
victim, 1t is by no means clear that the
best interests of the community, from a
humane standpoint, are served by max
ing prison discipline less rigid or prison
life less burdensome.
Special care should be exercised in the
selection of prison keepers. They should
be men of courage and firmness as well
as humane and of good Judgment
Under such officials, guided by fair and
just rules, it is doubtful that the average
lot of the inmates of our prisons is
harder than justice demands.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-21
Cleaning Car WhneIs.

Very efficient work is now being done
IN various departments by the use Of the
sand blast. One Of the latest applica.
tons is to the cleaning Of car wheels.
The wheel, after being carefully soaked,
Is rolled into small chamber, where il
stands in vertical position. The tread
of the wheel stands on rollers, which are
moved by gearings so that the wheel is
slowly revolved without changing its
position. Z hue into which cinders are
fed by chute Leading from bin above
leads blast Of air against the face Of the
wheel, which is then reversed.
The cinders used vary from the size Of
a grain of wheat to much larger and are
20 hard that they can be used several
times. The time saved By this method
can be imagined when one man can clean
twenty wheels IN three hours and half.
including the time consumed In rolling
them to and from the machine, and the
saving in labor is proportionateiy great
Chicago News.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-21
THE EXCESS OF SEX.

Judging from statistics of the sexes
the New York Press expresses the opinion
that big crop of Old maids is imminent.
II the statistics of Great Britain are cor
rect, the excess OF women and girls over
men and boys in that country is about
900. 600. an increase in ten years of
about 100000. In Germany the number
of females IN excess Of males IS about
100000. In Sweden and Norway the
weaker sex" is in the majority bv
about $50. 600; in Austro-Hungary bv
600, 600. and in Denmark bv sc. 600. In
the United States, Canada and Australia
the males are in the majority In this
country there are about 1000, 600 more
men than women.
The preponderance of women over
men in the European countries is readily
accounted for by the war records Of the
countries named, in the main. The in
tervals between wars over there are
too short for the population to recuper-
ate sufficiently TO overcome the deple-
tion of the masculine portion thereof
caused by war. Another feature of the
advantage that Is with Us is that Europe
loses a much larger portion of her male
population than female by emigration.
and the emigrants from Europe coming
more largely TO the United States than
10 any other country. our excess of
males over females is considerably aug
mented thereby.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-21
Tower Of the Tongues. .

Our story Of the Tower OF Babel is
known in Cbaldean and Armenian ira
dition as 1.-The Story of the Tower Of
Tongues" 1t Is one of the earliest recol-
lections Of the Tigro-Euphrates basin,
and is related by Berosus in the follow
ing manner:
THE first inhabitants Of the earth,
glorying in their own strength and size.
and despising the gods. undertook TO
raise a tower whose top should reach TIE
skies. This tower they erected in the
place where Babylon's ruins now lay
thickly strewn over the ground. In
erecting this monster roadway TO heaven
they toiled incessantly. But when it
had approached near unto heaven the
wind assisted the gods and overthrew
the work upon its contrivers; aud its
ruins are said TO be still at Babylon.
And at about the same time the gsds
introduced g diversity Of tongues among
men, who till that time had all spoken
the one language. The place in which
they attempted 10 build the tower is now
called Babylon, on account Of the con-
fusion of tongues. for confusion is by the
Hebrews called bable. st. Louis Re,
public,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-21


The 'lady factotum" is what our Eng
ish neighbors call those engaged in the
vocation of visiting housekeeper." This
is an employment which has been highly
recommended, and which number of
ladies in this country as well as in Eng
land have adopted. Such person visits
ladies who from i'll health or some other
reason are unable to perform their do
mestic duties. She oversees the servants,
inspects the stores and possibly under
takes shopping, marketing and the writ
ing Of notes, and she performs other
Offices which are of too confidential and
responsible a nature for the ordinary
servant to undertake.
If she is woman Of energy, tact and
health she can accomplish a great deal
by visiting a number of families for
about an hour day. She may go so
far as to employ assistants in marketing
and shopping, whose work she is able to
oversee with intelligence. She is paid
for this work on even better scale than
a visiting governness, and if she is an
able, efficient woman in the items of in
specting stores and furnishing food at
down town prices. she can easily save a
family half her liberal remuneration.
The inst dtion of such vocation is
a great relief to many oyerburdened or
i'll or incapable housewives, and presents
an excellent and lucrative field to women
of efficiency and refinement. 1t is a
place such as an elder sister might take,
and such indeed as many elder and M
married sisters do take for no remunera-
ton beyond ''love and affection. New
York Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-21
COMING TO THEIR MILK.


Flushed with the success of 1890 the
Alliance scornfully rejected the over
lures of the Democrats for a fusion in
the recent campaign, confident of their
ability TO down all opposition, single
handed and alone. The overwhelming
defeat that party sustained has pretty
thoroughly knocked the conceit out of
it, and already it is running after the
Democracy and before another cam
paign it viii be ready to agree to any
sort of terms the latter may dictate.
Here is what the Hutchinson Advocate,
one of the leading Alliance organs of
the state has to say on that subject:
"The thing to do is to down the Repub-
lican party. There is no use trying to dis
guise that fact. 1t is the Republicans that
we are after now and propse to keep
straight after them till we bring them in
out of the wet; and for the present we
shall not be very choice Of the means en-
ployed.
If the Democrats have any regard for
decency and manhood, after the recent
rebuff and open insults offered them by
the Alliance, they will pursue the even
tenor Of their way:-the only considera-
ton they viii show the Alliance, which
is the common enemy of both the old
parties, will be to grant its members. as
individuals, the privilege of voting for
their ticket, but no voice in making up
the ticket or the platform on which it
will be placed.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-21
How snake, limb.

How do snakes climb? is a question
which has been frequently asked. Many
have thought that they accomplish the
feat by wrapping themselves about the
tree and following a spiral course up
ward. Several years ago story went
the rounds of the papers to the effect
that two woedchoppers, having felled q
large oak tree several feet in diameter
and very tail, found in its top two COM
mon blacksnakes.
After pondering for some time the
men arrived at the conclusion that one
snake had taken hold of the others tail,
and thus by cooperation they had been
enabled to clasp the trunk, and by cir
cling about it had ascended to the top.
Whatever probability may have at
tached to this conclusion has been dis
PEELED by the observation of two young
naturalists while hauling frewood from
the forest.
A black snake, measuring perhaps a
tri1e over six feet, was found clinging
to the side of small tree, around which
it could have wrapped itself nearly twice
had it wished to do SO. Instead of this
the snake passed right and left at short
distances, catching the folds along its
under parts over and behind the slightly
projecting roughnesses Of bark.
AS the snake rested only five or six
feet off the ground one of the young
men grasped it's tail to test its climbing
qualities, but so great was the force with
which it pulled upward that it proved a
difficult task to hold it. Finally, becom-
ing annoyed at this i'll treatment, the
snake reached down threateningly at the
hands, and losing its hold fell
to the ground. 1t was borne home in
triumph but was afterward returned
to the forest.-Youth's Com
panion,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-21
1T IS TRUE OF KANSAS CITY,

Elsewhere in this issue we make the
declaration, as we have oft times before,
that Kansas City not only controls the
commerce of the state of Kansas to the
hurt of Kansas towns, and of Kansas
railroads, and has done SO for years, but
that the Missouri municipality seeks con-
tinually to control the politics of Kansas,
making of the state, as we said the other
day, complete catspaw for all her
schemes with the one hand, while en-
deavoring to rob her towns and cities of
their enterprises with the other. Again,
lately, one of the most prominent manu-
facturers of this city was approached by
one claiming to be representative of a
commercial organization of Kansas City
with a proposition to move his interests
to Kansas City, Missouri, from which
point he was assured he could reach his
customers in south Kansas and Okla
homa cheaper than from this city. And
so the Journal of yesterday, speaking of
their Missouri river steal, again makes
our words true that they seek to control
Kansas politically as well, that paper
editorially declaring the following:
"Leavef1worth will aid Kansas City in
the attempt to secure adequate work on
the Missouri river to fit it for navigation.
Leayenworth is interested, as are all
other cities in the Missouri valley. Not
a congressman should be returned to
Washington who will not work honestly
and heartily for this object"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-21
Hot Griddle Cakes.

DR. Prices Cream Baking Powder possesses peculiar
merit not approached by that of any other baking powder
1t produces the hot buckwhea Indian wheat cakes hot
biscuit doughnuts wafes Any these tasteful
things be eaten when hot with mpuny by persons of
the most delicate digestive organs Dr. Prices Cream
ing Powder eavens without fermentation decomposition
En- * preparation the purest of cream of tartar So
"a tc used and in such equivalents always
guarantee perfectly neutral result thereby giving the
TAI and sweet favor peculiar buckwheat and
that may used flavor so much desired and a
precated by all The oldest patrons of Dr. Prices powder
the story that they get the any
other leavening agent that their gdde cakes biscuits etc
are never light and sweet or so good q
wien raised with Dr.. Prices Cream Baking Powder.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-21
For Your Health.

For neuralgia in the face apply mus
tard plaster to the elbow. For neuralgia
in the head apply the plaster to the back
of the neck. The reason for this is that
mustard touches the nerves the moment
it begins to draw or burn, and 70 be of
the most use must be applied 10 the
nerve centers or directly over the place
where it touches the affected nerve most
quickly. Let the patient have plenty Of
sunlight
1t IS said that horseradish grated and
mixed with vinegar and applied 10 the
temple when the face or head IS affected
with neuralgia viii give relief.
AT some hospitals almost the only
gargle used for the throat IS hot salt
wafer
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-21
Suicide. in Esrllsh Ari.soeracy.

Suicides among the aristocracy in Eng
land are rather numerous. Lord COngles
ton, who was Mr.. ParnelI's great-uncle,
hanged himself in 1S42. In the same
year the Earl of Munster, one of the IL
legitimate SONS OF King William ~,
shot himself in the head. In 1869 Lord
Cloncsrry, the last of his house, jumped
from window and broke his neck.
In 1878 the last Earl Of De Ia War;
drowned himself, and in 1873 Lord
Lyttleton, the insane brother-in-law OF
Gladstone, escaped from his keepers.
threw himself of the staircase Of his
own house and was killed.
A story Of suicide in which sentiment
is mingled is that Of Prince Baudouin,
heir to the throne Of Belgium. The
youthful prince loved beneath bis sta
ton. and finding that love could never
be- realized sought peace in the eternal
silence Of the grave.-Cincinnah En-
quirer.