The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-28

1eel the earLn move SunW1r0.
join the great march onward,
And take by faith, while living,
+. sJ. g. sWhdttier
Temperance Work Among Foreigners.
The countries from which many immi-
grants come are far behind the United
States in temperance sentiment. The
ma jority of those who come here have
been brought up to believe that the
drinking of beer especially is healthful.
This habit and belief makes it hard to
convince them that total abstinence is
best Politicians ponder and toady to
their supposed wishes for the sake of
their votes. They are law-abiding
people, or were until spoiled by our poll
ticians, until today the foreign vote
threatens our free institutions. -
Total abstinence is gaining ground in
the European countries, from which
most of them Gomez. They never fall
from grace. Once converted they are
converted to stay. When foreigners
are converted to total abstinence they
show more temperance backbone than
the average American does. Look at
Scandinavian and German prohibit.
tionists9 Theyiwant no halfway meas
ures and they never fall from grace. .r.t
Ulyssis S. Grant, the great soldier of
the late civil war, noted for. his energy
and push was born on the 9th day of
April. Temperance people have adopted
his famous dispatch: ''f propose to
fight it out on this, line if it takes all
summer" Yea, and many summers
How the House was Purchased. q
A house, Hobson-you buying house?
Bless my life! who's died and left you
money, man? 1 wish l had that luck
but never shaH.r-.
''No one has left me the money;
earned every penny of it," 't,5s s...
'"'Eh? You don't say. Why heard
you were paying two hundred cash for
the house, and meant to lay" out forty
more in paint, fences, co~shed, and SO
on" ~ - >-e-r - 81
"Well. it is true. That is just the fig
ure.'
81 cannot see how you did it. We
earn the same wages, we have neither of
us been sick, your family is one larger
than mine, and though Pm not In. debt
and l always take credit for that-I am
not forehanded a shilling, and you are
buying a house. With no rent to pay,
and garden to draw half your living
from, you'll soon grow rich at this. rate.
Tell us your secret, if you've mind to
do good turn to an old neighbor."
my money is the saving of seven
years, since 1 was married. You know,
I've lived in comfort, and now and then
had an outing with the family, and none
of us lacked, while none of us wasted.
The week / was married said to Polly:
Ny girl. let us own house Says Polly,
You re. joking Tom; we own a house
If we pay our rent we'll do well. See
here Polly, I said ,.fIll spend no money
on whiskey; beer,i or tobacco. Free. of
that spending, and all the wasting those
things bring, Pm sure cah in time buy
house for plenty of workingmen, Polly,
spend at the tavern what would buy'em
a house twice over, With a home of
your own in your eye, Polly, and me
where you can, and a. house we'll
have, ,"
- "'But / cannot believe that mere saw
ings out of beer, a little bit ofliquor, and
some tobacco will build house, Hob
"Try it. In seven years you'll have as
good a house, or perhaps in much less
bAhiC. NFdSCc stlC hlShCI, Saho yOuT LulSStS
has more experience in housekeeping
than Polly had when she begun"
-4'By few shillings week, Hobson?"
Money breeds money, my man. Your
bit of money will inspire you all to save
and earn. You'll lend it at some interest
too; and the time you spend at the cor
ner store YOU will spend in earning extra
shilIihgs. There's demand for work.
Besides, until you study it up, you've no
idea the amount of good cash that goes
in bad smoke and rink.''-Mrs., ,McNair
Wright.
A preacher of the Denver conference
was sent to mining town that had no
place to preach except a saloon. The
proprietor said he might preach if he
would stand where he said. He con-
head of whisky barrel. The preacher
said he was preaching where he long
wanted to be-he had the deril under has
feet.
Senator Stanford, in speaking of his
plans for his California University, said
that he desired to have the students un-
derstand the evil consequences of intern
perance. He believed there are In Cal
ifornia today more adult men selling
and the loss from this source is equal to
twenty-five per cent. of the power of
production.
| Alady tells us that she heard colored
/ preacher say: De fo'spart of de- house
will please sit down 70, de hind part
cannot see de fo' part if de fo' part per
sist in standing befo' de hind part, to de
utah obsclusion of de hind part by de
fo' part. ~
Madam, are you a woman suffrag-
| ist r. No, sir, / haven't time. to be.,'
Et'Haten 1timel Well, if you had the
privilege of voting, whom would you