The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-06
HOOD RIVER.

still remains within the limits, of what
is still left of Wasco county. There is
the Arctic cold of the western boundary,
part of which is,a region of perpetual
snow and ice as well as.the semi-tropical
heat of the Columbia bottom nearly
1000 feet below. In the southeast we
have a vast hilly stock range where
there is very light rainfall, while in the
extreme northwest we have precipita-
ton nearly equal to that of the William
cite Valley. Midway between all these
extremes of heat and cold, of depression
and elevation, of drought and moisture
lies the beautiful little valley of Hood
River. The valley proper is not so much
the depression created, in the lapse of
centuries by the rush of waters from the
summit of the Cascade Mountains, as it
is stretch of high bench land on either
side of Hood River rising up out of the
Columbia on the north and reaching
back to within less than dozen miles
from the base of Mount Hood. On
either side of this plane rise abrupt and
precipitious mountains running north
and south and nearly parallel with the
main body of Hood River. On the north
across the Columbia there is chain of
similar mountains running parallel with
the river, with Mount Adams in the dis
tance on the south and visible almost
everywhere stands Mount Hood. Hem
ley presents picture of scenic beauty
nowhere equalled in Eastern Oregon and
scarcely excelled anywhere else. But
this is not all, for in this prosaic age few
are able to subsist on scenery alone.
The Hood river valley has climate
all its own. 1t is neither so hot in sum-
mer nor SO cold in winter as other parts
of Eastern Oregon, while compared with
the Willamette valley it Is much cooler
in summer if it is colder in winter. If
the residents of the valley are to be ac-
cepted as judges of its climate then
there is no place on earth like Hood
River. One enthusiast, who has long
resided there, said to the writer: .'All
we want is an irrigating ditch on either
side of the river and then a man need
not die to go to heaven A lady, who
lately married one of Hood Rivers most
prosperous farmers, and who previous to
her marriage had resided amid the
"beauty and chivalry" of Washington,
d. c., was equally pronounced in her ad-
miration of her new home. That seems
to be way they all have and really,
after a person has "donep the valley
from one end to the other, and has had
an opportunity to test its delightful
climate he begins to think they are not
far astray. The writer has no interests
there whatever, and does not know that
he, ever shall have any but despite the
effort to curb the, expression of his adj
miration he is constrained to put it on
record that, after a thorough acquaint-
ance with every part of it, extending
over several years, he cannot think of
any spot an earth he has ever visited,
take it for all in all, in everything that
goes to make perfect climate, to equal
the Hood river valley.
Baby is sick.-The woeful expression
of Des Moines teamster's icountenance
showed his deep anxiety was not entire
ly without cause, when he inquired OF a
druggist of the same city what was best
to give baby for cold? 1t was not ne
cessary for him to say more, his counte-
nance showed that the pet of the family,
if not the idol of his life was in distress.
"We give our baby Chamberlain's. Cough
Remedy was the druggist's answer.
81 don't like to give the baby such strong
medicine, ~ said the teamster. You know
John Oleson, of the Watters-TalbotP Print
ing Co., don't you? inquired the drug
gist. ellis baby, when eighteen months
old, got hold of bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy and drank the whole of
it. OF course it made the baby vomit
very freely but did not injure it in the
least, and what is more, it cured the ba-
by's cold. The teamster already knew
the value of the Remedy, having used it
himself, and was now satisfied that there
was no danger in giving it even to a
baby. For sale by Snipes & Kinersly.
An exchange says there is vast differ
ence between living simply, and simply