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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-30
THE DALLES.

The Gate City of the Inland Empire is situated at
the head of navigation the Middle Columbia and
is a thriving, prosperous city.
ITS TERRITORY.
It is the supply city for extensive and rich agri
cultural grazing country its trade reaching
far south as Summer Lake, distance Of two
hundred miles.
THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET.
The rich grazing country along the eastern slope
the the Cascades furnishes pasture for thousands
Of sheep the wool from which finds market here
The Dalles is the largest original wool shipping
point in America, about 100000 pounds being
shipped last year.
ITS PRODUCTS.
The salmon fisheries are the the Columbia,
yielding this year of 1,5oo 900 which
and will be than doubled in the near future
The products of the beautiful Kickital valley find
market here and the country south and east has this
year filed the warehouses and all available storage
places to overhowing with their products.
ITS WEALTH
richest city Of it's size the and its
money scattered and is being used to develop
farming country than is tributary to any other
city in Eastern Oregon.
It's situation unsurpassed! Its climate delight
full It's possibilities incalcu1ab1e It's
limired! And on these corner stones she stands
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-30
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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-30
sbIPEs { KIBERsLY,
Wholesale and Retail Druggisk.
DEALERS III
Fine Imported, Key West and Domestic
CIGARS.
PAIN T
Now is the time to paint your house
and if you wish to get the best, quality
and a fine color use the
Sherwin, Williams Co.'S Paint.
Sherwin, Williams Co.'S Paint.

/. For. those: wishing to see the quality
and color of the above paintwe call their
attention to the residence of S. l.. Brooks,
Judge Bennett, Smith French and dothers
painted by Paul Kreft
snipes & Kinersly are agents for the
above paint for The Dsilles. Or.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-30

is here and has come to stay. It hopes,
to win its way to public favor by ener-
gy, industry and merit; and to this end
we ask that you give it fair trial. and
if satisfied with it's course generous
support.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06
A Valuable Knife.

An acquaintance Of ours once breakfasted
in the tavern at Anesbury, Mass. His at
tention was attracted to and riTesed on a
venerable gentleman at the table opposite,
who voraciously shoveied big pieces of cold
apple pie into his mouth By means Of a
knife. The spectacle amused if it did not
horrify the spectator; be could hardly IN
derstand how one of 40 noble a countenance
and so distinguished presence should
consume cold apple pie for breakfast, and,
more shocking yet, scoop in the monstrons
eomestible with a vulgar, phebeian knife.
Tell me- said cur friend TO the waiter.
after the venerable stranger had left the
room, who was that old gentleman who
shoSeled IN that aerocious cold pie so In
dastrously?'
That, sir" answered the waiter proud
ly, as he drew himself up 20 his full height,
that, sir, was Mr.. Whittier. our famous
poet"
''Oh. IL that's the case" cried cur friend,
it's ali right, cold pie or Id cold pie. I'm
free 20 say that whatever Mr.. Whittier
does needs no apology or jas2scation-"
Ourfriend mean: it too. AS sn earnest
CT ms sincerity be captured the very knife
with which the famous post bad eaten The
cold apple PIE, and that knife u now one
OF tie most treasured POSSESSIONS Of tbs
gentleman who gave us this Interesting
nAxrAtsSe--E0gena Field IN Chicago Eexz
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06
a WET HARVEST.

With all our almost ceaseless winds it
is next to impossible to injure Kansas
wheat by rains, however excessive, while
it is growing. While excessive rains, or
close, humid, heated atmosphere often
causes rust in many of the states near
sea level, such disaster seldom happens
in Kansas and then only in local and
circumscribed districts. But more than
one season south Kansas farmers lost
heavily by excessive rains in harvest
time, as all remember. The present
wheat crop is enormous, the acreage IS
immense, the stand magnificent and the
harvest practically here, but the rains
come almost every day. A loss of five
or ten cents on every bushel viii be sus-
tanned wherever the grain is in the least
damaged. Therefore shock up only
when dry and then with more than
ordinary care and be sure to see that the
cap sheaves are perfect and thoroughly
placed. In short, Kansas wants all there
is is be gotten out of her present wheat
crop, as does every individual farmer,
and as there remains but the one single
chance of trouble, extra pains to avoid
it should be taken.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06

machinists, bricklayers, carpenters and
printers. The negroes have learned that
practical education is what they most
need, and they readily adapt themselves
in these schools to training in the calling
or handicraft for which they have nat
ural taste or learning. In the meantime,
as Mr.. Burrows shows from the census,
the negroes, while making this steady
advancement in education, have not neg
lected the accumulation of profits. The
total value Of the property owned by
them in the south is stated to be be-
tween $50, GOO, 600 and 5000, 0O0. 600. The
negroes of Georgia pay taxes ON $40. 000.-
GOO worth of real estate and In Maryland
on So, 000, 900 worth, and the conviction
is growing with them everywhere that
they ought to own their homes.
Temperance, too, is growing among
them, and the law of property rights Is
strengthening them IN belief IN the
validity OF the marriage contract. Sum-
ming up, Mr. Burrows sees that these
facts show that the negroes in the south
are animated by a progressive spirit.
They are raising and following their own
leaders, are rapidly copying the organic,
industrial and administrative features of
white society, and have discovered that
industrial redemption IS not to be found
in legislative and political measures; they
are silently and steadily developing
sense of self-respect, new capacity for
and pride in their race
which more than anything else secures
for them the respect and fraternal feel
ing of their white neighbors.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06
PROGRESS OF SOUTHERN NEGROES

The Rev. Samuel J. Burrows has a
noteworthy paper on ''What the South
ern Negro is doing for HIMSELF in the
June edition of the Atlantic Monthly.
1t is the result of a recent tour by him
through Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ten
nessee, the District of Columbia and
Maryland, and is a comprehensive
statement of a progress that is especially
remarkable when the conditions of the
negro at the time of his emancipation,
as a result of the civil war, is recalled.
Then there was not 5 per cent. of that
race who could lay claim to anything
like schooling, whereas it is now reason
able to assume that 80 per cent, can
show some training and thousands of
them are engaged as teachers in the pub
lie schools, quite competent, as their ex-
animation papers will show, to discharge
their duties as such fully and faithfully.
They make, in many places, volun-
tary subscriptions TO pay the public
school teachers to keep the schools open
beyond the three months limit provided
by law, aud have in many instances
themselves profted by the training in
housekeeping and cooking which their
girls have received in Hampton, Allan
ia, Tuskegee, Nashville, and Memphis.
The fathers labor cheerfully, and the
mothers at scrubbing and washing. in
order that the boys and girls may enter
the world better equipped for the battle
that all must encounter in it than they
were themselves. And thousands of
these boys and girls have graduated with
honors and have entered or are entering
upon useful lives as journalists, school
teachers, physicians and LAWYERS, or at
some handicraft that affords them
ready recompeuse for labor. There are
thirty-Seven newspapers published
in the south by negroes. seven
monthly and two semi-monthly, the
rest weekly. the aggregate circulation
of all footing up sos. coo copies. This is
very creditable. but it IS not any more so
than the exhibit made by the several ne
gro church organizations, which are all
now on a self-supporting basis and indie
pendent of white help.
Mr.. Burrows instances in proof Of this
the fact that last year the Zion Methodist
Episcopal church in North Carolina
raised $4,000 TO support its religious in
situations, and that in Birmingham. Ala,
there are churches for negro congrega-
tons that cost Sl5. 600, and in Washing
ton two that cost $50, 600 each, and that
there are negro pastors that are paid as
high as $500 wear The negroes sup
port Masonic, Odd Fellows and other
benevolent and fraternsl organizations,
and hospitals. Young Mems
Christian associations, alliances, build
ing associations, penny savings banks
and school and postal savings banks.
The Nashville. Selma and Atlanta
are doing well. and
all the seminaries and academies,
those like our lie Moyne instl-
tute that have departments for training
students 10 be nurses. house servants.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06
Reasons why Man sray Not Ply,

Professor Hazen, OF the signal Office,
says there are inSurmountable obstacles TO
perfecting a flying machine. Professor
HazeD states the main obstacles thus:
First-It is impossible TO use the food
which the bird uses TO develop power by
any contriysnce which can ever be invented
that will give one 1.-THE Of the effect that
the bird gets. That Is 20 say, while pos
sibly spring or other application Of force,
by using up an enormous amount Of en-
ergy In a very short time, might moment
arily initiate bird. yet the motive power
IN such case would De rapidly used up.
Second-It is impossible, By the most
delicate mechanism and most perfect
wings, N equal tbs perfection and sdzpta-
bility OF the bird in its own element
Third-Thsre is a limit Of weight beyond
which IL IL impossible for bird 70 1y. II
is probable that the ostrich had the power
Of fight ia ages gone by, but when its en-
vironment became such that IL did not
need It's wings 70 escape from its ensrniss.
or when II began 20 grow larger from any
favoring circumstance II used its wings
less and les. 20 that nosV Il - entirely IN
capable Of fight /, - psobsbie tina. tbs
condor. weighing Fifty pounds. AID with q
spread Of wings Of fourteen feet, l. very
bear the linni: Ct weight We may conclade
then that we can never equal a bird. AID
hence tbat a self raising. self supporting
and self propeling flying rAchins cannot
possibly oe balls 70 carry q Eaaa.-Iadlan-
s2olls Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06
Roman. Could pls,nhsri. Children.

BY the common law, up to che date of
Henry II, one-third Of mans goods went
to mis- heirs or lineal descendants, one-third
To his wife, and only the other third was at
bis own disposal
The Roman law required true and suf-
6cient reason to be assigned for dizinherit-
ing children, or else that some legacy. how
ever small. should testify that the deceased
had not forgotten the existence OF hiSchiId-
This is the origin of the popular error that
it is necessary TO disinhsrit an heir by ''cut-
ting him OFF with a shilling" As a matter
of feet, a man in England may now dispose
OF the whole OF his goods and chatsels a.
he thinks fit, and the judges viii even al
low considerable room for eccentricity,
should the will be disputed as showing ev-
idence that the testator must have been Of
unsound mind According to DR.. Forbes
Winslow, there Is record of the fantastic
will of an admitted lunstic being literally
carried out.-All the Year BOUND
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06
CURRENCY FADS.

Mr.. Andrew j. Carnegie's article ''The
A B G of Money" bids fair to make him
famous as a financial theorist, at least
among the class of people who hold to
his idea of what it takes to constitute
money; i. e., intrinsic value-gold. The
article is being published by the papers
in sympathy with that notion, some Of
them openly endorsing it with all its
vagaries. One of Carnegie's favorite
idioms is in regard to ''ideal money"
which has been touched upon in these
COLUMNS. Here is another:
The idea that government could make
money" simply by stamping certain words
upon pieces of paper. just as any of you
can make money" by writing note
promising to pay 500 on demandl But
you know that when you do that you are
not making money" but making a
debt" so is any government that issues
its promise to pay.
Will Mr.. Carnegie, or some one for
him, tell us why the government places
its stamp upon the coins it issues if it is
not necessary in order to make money
of them? If the intrinsic value theory
Is correct, why not simply indicate what
the value is in plain figures stamped
upon the piece of metal? If the intrinsic
value idea is correct why was the trade
dollar. which contained nearly one-tenth
more silver than the standard dollar
taken at discount of 20 per cent of its
face value, while the latter passed at
par? And how is it that the current is
sue of pennies pass universally at their
face value, although they are less
one-fifth the weight of the old-fashioned
copper cent, which is also taken at par.
These are only few of the questions
that suggest themselves while reading
the monometalistic theories, but if these
are answered satisfactorily. others that
might be asked may be omitted, as
being covered by the answers to the
others.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06

Hon. j. G. Haskell, the original archi-
teCt of the state house, has been elected
by the new State Board of Public Works
to the position of state architect. Mr..
Haskell's reputation as an architect and
his standing as a citizen are too we'll as
sured TO render necessary any Mandatory
observations from the EAGLE or from
any one else, and we only mention the
fact to congratulate the new board on
Its selection and his acceptance. If Has
kell had never been displaced the state
would have had, to all intents and pur-
poses. as attractive a state house as it
has and saved anywhere from one 70
three hundred thousand dollars.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06

From Bishop Ireland's declarations in
reference to the much discussed Lucerne
church is not without a diversity of
sentiment touching church polity and
creed. The bishop seems disposed to
take the denial of the secretary of the
American-German priests verin with
several grains of allowance. Well, per-
haps an clubbing of opinions in that
church at this time would have a puri-
flying and revivifying effect upon it and
at the same time give the community at
large clearer understanding of the real
teachings and doctrines of that body, as
is the case with several divisions of the
Protestant church.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06
oueer Origin of Some Words


''Oh, dearp' is equivalent to 20 dio milo, "
80 my God"
"Thimble" was originally thumb bell"
the thimble formerly having been worn on
the thumb.
''Slav" is not the ''slave" of the old ety.
biologists, but, in reality, a person of noble
lineage.
Rotten row." the famous London
street, gained its name by being called ''la
route du rot" in English, ''the kings pas
sage way"
''Dandelion" is dent de leon, 'the lions
TOOTH" and vinegar" was once vim aigre
(sour wine).
Madame" is my lady" and 'sir'' has
been extracted from the Latin Senior"
through the French.
Biscuit" keeps alive the Latin phrase.
bis coctus, twice cooked" and verdict"
is simply we're dictum (true saying).
An ''earl" was an elder" in primitive
society, while pope" is the same as
papa" and GEAR" and "kaiser" are both
caesars.
A VILLAIN" before the stigma OF disgrace
was attached to him, was simply laborer
On the villa" of Roman country gentle
man.
''HuZzy" once meant respectable house
wife; "knave" was simply boy. Jim
miny" is a "reminiscences Of the classical ad-
Duration 80 genini," used by the Romans
when they called upon the twins Castor
and Pollok to help them.
Lord" is the old Anglo-Saxon "hla-
ford" Coaf distributorj The Latin term
for Lord" is Doninus, which has given
Us dominic, the old term for preacher
St. Louis Republic.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06
Perkins, Practical Joker.

Perkins, practical joker, is again in the
city. This time he perpetrated a new YER
sion of an old joke upon his victim. TWAS
evening, and Perkins, with a friend, was
walking on the Bowery. Suddenly they
came upon a peanut merchant of the Ital-
ian persuasion. Perkins was instantly the
father of an idea
Il say, George" he said to his friend,
"Fll bet cigar can make that fellow so
angry within three minutes that he won't
know whether he's afoot or on horseback.
And won't use any profanity or call him
hard names, either"
His mischief loving friend accepted the
challenge, and Perkins approached the
stand.
Gimme pint of peanuts" he said to
the merchant.
He received and paid for them.
'These are stale nuts" he exclaimed
after munching one. Here, take 'em
back. Idon't want TO be swindled in any
such fashion as this"
"Fresha peanutta," protested the Italian
'Rosta him halfa the hour"
''See here, sir, you are trying to swindle
me and you know it, you miserable inter
jectionp roared in Perkins, with well
feigned wrath.
The Italian looked at his tormentor in
dismay He had never had such an epithet
applied to him before, and he was at a loss
to know how to proceed. So he kept silent
and stared hard at Perkins.
"Oh, you brazen old proposition, you
adverb. you participle, you conglomera-
ton of etymology, syntax and prosody.
No wonder you can't talk when you are
brought face to face with such crime as
this. What do you mean anyway, you ex-
traneous old adjective1" And Perkins
scowled at the unhappy merchant so
fercely that his eyes dropped under the
glare.
YES, you know you are guilty, you
common noun, and have a notion TO
have you arrested"
Gradually the Italian had become angry,
so angry that he evidently did not dare
trust himself TO talk, but at the sugges-
ton Of arrest and imprisonment be grew
frightened. He offered TO take back the
peanuts and refund the money, but Per
kins refused to give them up.
mo" he said savagely, Il win keep the
peanutta and use it as evidence, you cow
ering, cringing verbp' and be walked
away chuckling to himself at the success
that had attended his joke. And still Per
kins is ut large.-New York Herald.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06
he writes Love verses.

On the top floor Of one of the tallest
buildings in upper New York tolls an old
man who has probably written more po-
etry than any other single man living.
His business is that of writing the poet
lie" notices which one finds in the cheap
candies of the day. Poetry which could
never see the light of day in any other way
is hidden in these tissue papered party"
candies.
had an interesting talk with this man
few days ago. Hs has been twenty years
in the business, is over sixty years of age,
and has accumulated fortune, although
he still keeps up the same monotonous
poetical grind. at is a curious trade, you
think, suppose" said the old man, yet
some one must do it, and it is very profita-
bic. have built fourteen city and coun-
try houses out of it, and in year or two
shall lay down the pen for good, and let
some one else take up the work How do
/ write so much? Why, it has become
second nature to me. These notices are
simple; anything will do, and the more
silly they are the better. | know it is per-
feet trash, and it is preposterous to dignity
the things with the word poetry
81 spend three days of every week here,
and reel OH, suppose, hundred OF THESE
things every day. Why, 1 often eat my
lunch in one hand and write with the
otherl Yet as l say, it is profitable, much
better than writing bad novels, for after
all my verses never do any harm They are
silly, grant you, but perfectly harmless,
and young Lads and girls like to be merry
over them. Dear me- suppose I've married
many a couple with this pen, and if you'll
excuse me I'll just write score or more
before we go out to lunch" and in about
fifteen minutes the old man was ready to
go with me, carrying in his pocket an en-
velope full as the result of an hours work
Cor. Boston Journal.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06

Thirty years ago yesterday, June Srd.
1861, was fought" the first battle of the
war, after the surrender of Fort sumter
and the first bsttle in which our volunteer
soldiers were engaged. This was at Phil
lpl, West Virginia, where a small rebel
army had been chartered for short time,
getting ready TO come north and capture
the northern mudsills before breakfast"
Peabody Gazette.
The battle you speak of occurred as
you state it, but it was not the first bat
tie OF the war after Sumter. The first
held engagement took place at Big
Bethel, on the York peninsular, between
Zen. Buffers expedition from Fortress
Monroe and Gen. Magruders Virginia
and North Carolina volunteers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06

Preparations for engaging in irrigat-
ing enterprises in the southwestern por-
ton of the state are being made with a
degree or earnestness that suggests a
gratifying amount of confidence in the
ultimateS in that section. On Wednesday
the charter of the Western Kansas
Water Works Irrigation and Land com
pany, organized for the purpose of lay
ing out town sites, building dams, canals,
water works and electric light plants,
was filed with the secretary of the state.
Capital stock $1,000, 900. The directors
are W. NJ, Sutton, C. G. Gilbert and Z.
f. Soule. The place of business will be
at Dodge City, Ford county.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06

Because the EAGLE said, less than two
months ago, that the refusal of the
United States treasurer to furnish bull
lion for the export stream just then
setting in indicated big drain, de-
creased volume of circulation and pro-
badly stringent money market in the
near future, it was laughed to scorn.
The drain has now reached a million of
dollars per day, or more than can be
supplied very much longer without dis
aster to the money centers of the east.
With all the crop failures reported from
Europe and the abundance of the west
it now looks as if the flow must soon be
reversed. In the mean time our dis
patches tell of meetings of the money
kings of New York to discuss with and
advise the secretary of the TT, asury.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-06

The state supreme court adjourned
Wednesday out of respect of Gen. B. F.
Sringfellow, who died several months
ago. Judge John Martin, member of
the committee appointed by the court at
the Nay term to draft appropriate reso-
lutions concerning Gen. Strmgfellow's
death, presented report to the commit
Tee. Chief Justice Horton, who was an
intimate friend of the deceased, gave an
appropriate eulogY.