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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-20
saw Your Grain .

Few realize that each squirrel de-
stroys $3.50 worth of grain annually.
Wakelee's Squirrel and Gopher Extern
inaoor is the most effective and econom-
icai poison known. Price reduced to 80
cents For sale by NJ. Il. DonneU,
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DOUGLAS ALLEN, The DalIes.
C. NJ. WHITELAw, Antelope.

Stages leave The Dalles from UmatilIe House
at a. m, also from Antelope at 7:30 a. m. every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Connections
made at Antelope for Prineville, Mitchell and
points beyond. Close connections made at The
Dalles with railways, trains and boats.
Stages from Antelope reach The Dalles Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays at 1 80 p. m.
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Cash in Your Checks

ALI county warrants registered prior
to March y, 1898, will be paid at my
office. Interest ceases after Sept. Z,
1897. G. L. PHILLIPS,
County Treasurer.
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ATTENTION, sHEEPMENl

Do you want the earliest and best
range in Washington, with $40 acres of
decided land, and a chance to raise un-
limited quantities of alfalfa? If you do,
call on or address
j. II. CRADLEBAUGH
ag2I-tf The Dalles, Or.
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Married ladies should see DR.. Mullir-
nix. They will learn something that
they have always wanted to know.
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MAKRTED.

At the Catholic church in the city,
Monday morning, September Goth, Mr..
d. 4. Leonard to Miss Anna Betencorte.
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For Sale.

band of young breeding ewes.
Easy terms to right party. Apply to
n. B. BROOKS,
sI5 2t Goldendale, Wash.
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New line of Garland ranges and cook
stoves at Maier & Benton's store.
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A Fine School.

ST. Mary's academy for ladies, located
in this city and under the direction of
the Sisters, is one of the best educational
institutions on the coast. The building
is of brick, large and well ventilated.
Besides the regular studies, especial eff.
fort is made to instil into the minds of
the pupils desire to form their hearts
to virtue, and to fit them to be true and
noble women. Gratuitous lessons are
given in all kinds of plain and fancy
needle word, knitting, embroidery, etc.
Pupils will receive the same watChful
care that would be given them by con-
scIentious parents. 1t is in fact an ideal
shcOol and pleasant home. Those who
have girls to send TO school should write
to st. Mary's academy for terms. If.
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Nebraska corn for sale at the Wasco
warehouse. Best feed on earth. m9-tf
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-20

Nitrogene cures all liver and kidney
complaints.
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If you suffer with headache or pain in
the eyes, if print blurs when reading,
you should have your eyes examined.
Possible detective vision is the cause of
the pain and if corrected will relieve
the pain. DIR. Lannerberg, eye special
ist, Office in the Vogt block, will examine
your eyes free of charge.
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Nitrogene cures lost manhood in
teen days.
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DaNeS, Moro and Antelope
STAGE LINE.

Through by daylight via Grass Valley, Ken
and Cross Hollows
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TIME CARD.

TIME CARD.
No. 4, to Spokane and Great Northern arrives
at p. M, leaves at sos p. m. No. 2, to Pendle-
ton Baker City and Union Pacific, arrives at Ills
a M, departs at 20 a. m.
No 8, from Spokane and Great Northern, ar
rives at 80 a. m, departs at S:S5 a. m. No. l.
from Baker City and Uniou Pacific, arrives at
1855 a.. M, departs at 400 a.
Nos. % and "a, moving east of The Dalles, will
carry passengers. No. % grrives at $50 p. m,
departs at 12:45 p.
Passengers for Heppner will take train leaving
here at 6:05 D. m.
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For full details call on o. & & Co.'s Agent at
The Dalles, or address
W, H. HURLBURT, Gen. Pass. Agt
Portland, Oregon
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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11
"S1ILl LACKING"

The Tariff Law a Failure to the Last.
The receipts for January were nearly
100000 less than the expenditures.
That is, under the present Wilson tariH,
which some Democrats affect to believe
will some day produce enough revenue,
we increased our debt last month $0OO,-
600 daily. This Wilson tariff has now
been in operation Twenty-Five months, and
has resulted in total deficit of $126,-
ST. PIG. For the first Twenty-Five months
of the Mckinley tariff it produced sur
plus of $23 ops, 1873. The mere statement
of these easily proved and not disputed
facts should be sufficient argument to con-
vince any sensible mind that the repeal
of the Mckinley tariff was gigantic
blunder, and the passage of the wilson
tariff an act not far removed from crime.
The excuse that the shortage under the
Wilson law is due to more extravagant
appropriations will not hold water, for
the receipts for the Twenty-Five months
under the Mckinley law were greater
than under the Wilson law for the same
time by $146, 114.62, while the expendi-
lures for the same time under the McKin-
ley law were not quite $3,OOO,OOO less.
There has been a great deal of unwise
legislation in the world, but it is doubtful
if ever a people were called upon before
enjoying unexampled prosperity. and
adopt one in it's stead designed to close
their factories. paralyze their industries,
decrease their commerce and plunge them
into misunderstanding Commercial.
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SLOW BUT SURE.
Business Improvements Coming az
Rapidly as Could Be Expected.

Business Improvements Coming az
Rapidly as Could Be Expected.
There is a gradual but certain improve
ment in all departments of business ac-
tivity, including the manufacturing and
merchandising interests in all parts of the
country With this acceleration of trad
ing activity comes a growth of business
confidence that is shown in the large pur-
chases of raw materials for use in supply
ing market that is certain to open up
brisk and strong in the spring.
1t is believed by close observers of COM
mercial conditions for many years past
that the industrial recuperation will be
similar to the trade revival that followed
the resumption of specie payments in
1879. The people waited for a few
months for the benefits that were prom
ised, and there was great disappointment
over the fact that quick wave of pros
perity did not sweep over the country.
When the revival came, however. it come
suddenly and strong. bringing the greatest
growth and prosperity the country had
ever seen.
There is every indication that such a re-
covery from the depression Of the past
three years has already set in. There is
no wild speculation of any kind at this
time, and hence the gain must be attrib-
uted to the deliberate Judgment of the
ablest and most conservative business
men-Chicago Times Herald.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11
PoPULIsM AND SILVER.
was the Peoples Party Rea1Ix III.
Friend of the White Metz

was the Peoples Party ReaIlx ~.
FRIEND of the White Metal?
IN speech before the bimetall;c cor-
ventlon at Topeka on Tuesday ex-Sen tor
Jonn Martin declared that free silver MS :
only surface issue and that deem dow
beneath it were the real issues wh;oh ~ :
sn'el party would be called upon to solve
II tue next breath he declared for the
government ownership of railroads and
limited at other procedures which bors
come to be regarded as the socialist;c nro.
gram, pure and simple
At Boston on Monday George r Wash
burn, member of the Populist Nat;ona,
COMMITTEE. issued an address to the p,,,
ullst party, in the course of which he col.
We united with the silver forces n ~,
recent campaign-not because We hal;ar,,
free coinage of silver is the solution ~ IT,
financial problem, but because II wo,I.l
better existing conditions, would maat
with the least resistance and would no.
come the entering wedge for our main
issue, viz: Full legal tender paper money
issued and regulated by the Governmen,
alone. We do not stand for redemntion
money. but for scientific dollar. Ient
invariable by proper regulation of the
money volume"
At dozen different places since tha
last election, leaders of the Populist ma :
ty have uttered the same sentiments In
fact, they have lost no opportunity since
election is over to furnish substantial ev;-
dence that the Republican charge was
true and that the Populist party IS not 4
1r1eno 70 silver Kansas City Journal.
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their average yearly earnings. To this
the agitator during the last campaign re-
piled that, although 1890 was prosperous
year, since then there has been decrease
and the condition Of the workingman is
not as good as it was.
Conclusive evidence that wages have in
creased and more men are EMPLOYED is
furnished by the report of the Massachn-
setts bureau of labor statistics. which has
Just been issued. This is the best of the
state labor bureaus. The report consid-
ers AZ Identical manufacturing estab-
hshments in 1885 and 1895. By COM
parison of their returns in 1885 and 1S95
1t is learned that the number of persons
employed therein has increased from ISL.
~ to 21S,352, an increase of 3O.S75 mr.
1871 per cent. Meanwhile wages have
also increased. In 1885 the AVERAGE
yearly earnings of each employe in these
identical establishments was 1861 60 This
increased to $41S.99 in 1895, a percenta 90
or increase of 1886. The increase in The
total amount paid for wages during tho
same period by these 2,427 identical mann
1acturing establishments was S23. co.. 759
an increase of 34.95 per cent.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11
DECLINE OF BRYANISM.

His Rapid Disappearance Is Evidence
that HE IL "Lost Cause"
Perhaps the only thing in American
politics more remarkable than the rapid
and picturesque rise of the silver move
ment before the last presidential election
is the precipitous downward tendency OF
the same movement since the defeat OF lis
vociferous prophet, William j. Bryan.
As the period of sober afterthought
lengthens out, and as the time for the in
auguration of President Mckinley draws
near, the conviction is forced upon Re
publcans that they were unnecessarily
alarmed and upon Popocrats that they
were foolishly hopeful.
The delusion that Bryan was dramatic
ally near the goal, and that he could keep
up the fever of silver enthusiasm for four
years and win, hands down, in 1900, was
soon dispelled. When the clamorous din
of his oratory died away, all the enthu-
siasm went with it. Among his followers
the bitterness of first disappointment has
been followed by the hopelessness OF utter
despair.
A careful study of the official returns
has convinced the sincere men OF all po-
litical faiths that McKinley's victory was
with one exception, the most sweeping IN
the history of the country, and that bry-
ans defeat was deliberate, honest and
mighty protest against dangerous falla-
cies, designed to mislead the unthlnklng
and catch the time serving.
Considering normal conditions, the most
emphatic. reputation of Organism came
from the States where he expounded his
doctrines most persistently. In the eight
cen decisive Mckinley States Mckinley's
majority over Bryan was 1,54S.OOO. with
241 electoral votes, not to speak OF the
30 additional electoral votes received IN
the close States.
Mr.. Bryan still travels about considera-
bly,, but he can lose himself in a crowd
just the same as any other citizen. His
goings and comings are no longer an
nounced. Since his defeat he has made
two visits to this city, and on each occa-
sion the only one so poor to do him rever-
ence was his friend Robidoux, the Unicn
avenue saloonkeeper.
In politics it is possible to set in motion
a great wave on a false issue; but when
the tide once begins to ebb it never re-
turns.
There is nothing unique in the neglect of
Mr.. Bryan. He is simply the champion
of lost cause.-Kansas City Journal.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11
THE TARIFF WILL PASS.

Democrats to Join with Republicans
in Favor of Protective Measure.
Unless the most experienced observers
in Washington are greatly deceived, says
an exchange, the Republicans need have
no anxiety about the passing of the Re-
publican tariff bill by the Senate, even if
the Republican Senators are not a ma
jority. There will be no serious opposition
to such a tariff bill as the Ways and
Means Committee is framing. Demo
cratic Senators may offer some opposi-
ton, but it will be perfunctory. This is
because there are not dozen free traders
in Congress such as there used to be, and
possibly fewer advocates of high tariff
The free trader is now confined to- the
editorial room or the recitation rooms of
few colleges. The experience of the
past few years has modified the free
trader who has connection with business
As for the people generally, they attribute
the stagnation in business to the present
tariff. Democrats in Congress who were
free traders are now in favor of reve-
nue. tariff which will give incidental pro-
lection. The new Dingley tariff bill will
be a moderate measure, say those who
know about it. 1t will give protection to
home industries. but such protection as is
compatible with an increase of revenue.
To such a measure there will be no seri-
GUS opposition. Even the silverites, who
year ago threatened to antagonize any
revenue measure which does not include
the free coinage of fifty dollars, have
wisely come to the conclusion that such
a line of action would be unwise, and
would hurt their cause. Democrats, who
are now chiefly from the South, see the
folly of opposing a tariff which will in
sure ample revenue at a time when the
deficit is at the rate of sixty or seventy
million dollars a year.
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ditions which have been made and the
interior decorations from time to time
bring the total cost, down to date, with
furnishings, pictures, ETC., to about $1,-
100000.
The first floor is occupied by the great
East Room, 80 feet by 40, stretching
across the entire eastern wing OF the
building; opening from this three otner
rooms in line, known as the Green Room.
the Blue Room and the Red Room. THESE
titles grow out of the fact that the walls
and furnishings are of the colors indicat-
ed. Still beyond these at the southwest
corner of the building is the great state
dining room. 40 feet by 30, and capable
of seating fifty-four people at the large
table which stretches its entire length. On
the opposite side of the great corridor
which runs through the building is the
private dining room. where the President
and his family gather around the family
board. The basement is occupied by
kitchen, laundry and other paraphernalla
of household life. The second floor is oc-
cupied in part as the residence of the
presidential family, the remainder of the
floor being given up for Offices for the
President and his staff Of clerks and as
sistants The western end of the house
is occupied exclusively by the family, and
this is sacred from the public eye, while
the eastern half is given up to business.
Into this portion of the building all day
long flows a stream of visitors, some of
them to pay their respects to the Presi-
dent, others to discuss with him the af-
fairs of the nation, others pleading for ap-
pointment for themselves or their friends.
while still others are content to lay their
wants before the Presidents private sec
rotary or his corps of assistants and clerks
who occupy adjoining rooms.
President and Mrs. Mckinley will find
the executive mansion in apple pie order
upon their entrance on the 4th of March
The retinue of servants and attaches re-
main through one administration after an
other. excepting as to the few personal
attendants whom the President or his
family may desire to bring. The force
of clerks and assistants to the President
usually remain with but slight change,
many of those now employed having been
on duty in the building since the time of
Presidents Lincoln and Grant.
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The executive mansion, better known as
the ''White House," which is to be the
home of Hon. William Mckinley during
the coming four years, will, at the end OF
his term, have given to the country hum
dred years of it's history. Although it's
corner stone was laid in 1892, it was not
until the latter part of the year 1900 that
it was occupied as presidential resi-
dence, and even then it was not In a COM
pleted condition. So it will require prac-
tically all of the term of President Nc
kinley to round out the century of the oc-
cupancy of the executive mansion by
Presidents of the United States. George
Washington, under whose auspices and
during whose presidency the corner stone
was laid, did not live to see the building
completed, his death occurring but a few
months prior to it's occupancy, and it is
related that he walked through the unfin-
ished building commenting upon and ad-
miring its general beauty and prospects
only few days before his death.
1t was not white house" when Wash
lngton last saw it, or when it was occu-
pied by the early Presidents. 1t was not
until after the vandalism of the British.
who set fire to it on the same day that
they burned the Capitol building. that it
was of the color which has given it the
title of the white House." during the
recollection even of the preceding GEN
Grafton. Built originally of brown sand
stone from Virginia, it retained the orig
inal color of the stone until after the fire
which blackened it's walls had rendered
1t an unsightly object. Luckily the fire
was quickly extinguished by heavy fall
of rain, which set in shortly after it was
started, and as it was found that the walls
were not damaged, they were not rebuilt.
The fire and smoke having, however, dis
figured them, it became necessary to cover
them with coat of paint, and thus the
presidential mansion became known as the
white House." and has so remained
since that time. Coat after coat of paint
has been given it as years have passed,
but it is the same old White House whose
plans were made under the direction of
Gen. Washington, and whose corner stone
was laid in his presence and whose nearly
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11
THE WHITE HOUSE.

completed walls and apartments were fire.
quently admired by him during the clos
ing years of his life.
The executive mansion has been so fire.
quently described that its details seem
unnecessary. Standing in the midst OF
magnificent group of elms, oaks and other
forest trees, surrounded by well-kept
lawns which are ornamented with various
flowers and shrubs showing the highest
production of the landscape gardener
art, it divides attention among visitors to
Washington with the great Capitol whose
picture was given to the readers of this
paper a few weeks since. Surrounded
by ample ground, whose total area is
about eighty acres, the gates at its front
stand always open to visitors, who may
freely enter not only the grounds but, dur
ing certain hours of the day, the executive
mansion itself. No permit is necessary
every American citizen, every visitor to
the American republic, may visit and in
spect and enter upon the residence of the
Chief Magistrate of the land. Courteous
officials at the doors admit all who come
during the hours allotted for visitors and
they are permitted to pass through those
apartments not kept as private business
Offices of the President. The great East
Room, celebrated in history and the sub
ject of constant admiration, is always
open to the public, and it's walls frequent
ly contain the most brilliant assemblages,
including representatives of all the great
nations of the world.
The structure, as already indicated, is
built of brown stone painted white. Its
length is 10 feet and it's width Sc. It
originally fronted southwark, looking
out on the Potomac river, but the drive
way was constructed so as to bring car
riages past the north entrance, and that
has gradually come to be known as the
front" of the building. During Jack
sons term, large portico, with heavy
stone columns, was added to the north
front, so arranged that carriages drive un-
der it between the great pillars, depos-
iting their occupants upon the stone steps
leading to the vestibule of the executive
mansion. 1t is the north front of the
building. and the portico added during
Jackson's administration, which is shown
in the accompanying picture. The build
ing cost originally $25O,OOO, but the ad-
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11
WAGES IN EUROPE.
A Comparison with the Figures Paid
in America.

A Com parison with the Figures Paid
in America.
The recent annual report of the Massa-
chusetts bureau of statistics of labor con-
tains a careful comparison of wages and
prices here and abroad. Chief Wadlin
ascertains that during the period 1860
1883 wages were 1874 per cent higher in
Massachusetts, than in Great Britain and
the general average weekly wage is now
Il per cent higher.
As to the items entering into the cost of
living, they were on the average only II 20
per cent higher in 1883 in Massac husetts
than in Great Britain-and of his figures
11.40 per cent was due to the single item
of higher rents, leaving only 5S1 as the
higher average cost of food, clothing and
other necessaries.
Of course, the Massachusetts workman
spends more money than his English con-
sin-he can afford to. He earns 1874 per
cent more. He expends 11.49 Der cent
more because of his higher rent. and ~
Der cent more on account of the higher
cost of certain necessaries of life. Then
beyond this, as Chief Wadlin's figures
show. he expends voluntarily 31.12 per
cent to maintain that higher STANDARD of
American living generally which ia re-
flected in his higher rent. The Massachu-
sets workman, native or naturalized
demands a larger house and more con-
yeniences than he or his ancestors were
satisfied with in the ''old country" 1t is
this which makes his rent q larger item.
and he demands other things to CORE
spond.
Altogether. the Massachusetts, work
man eynpndS 4S Al per cent more FIR tho
support of his family than the English
workman. But as the Massachusetts
workman earns 75.4 per cent more, he can
do this-he can provide better home and
longer schooling for his children, and still
lay up larger proportion Of his wages
against the inevitable 'srainy day."
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11

deed gold is more convenient in the form
OF large bars than in the form of small
coined pieces, the loss by abrasion in ship
ping the former being much smaller than
the latter. 1t is money because it per-
forms the functions of money. In addi-
ton to the new gold of our own produc-
ton there has been added to the amount
OF money in the country during the same
period, by importation of gold from for
eign countries, not less than $50, 1000, 900,
making a total addition from these two
sources alone of about $50, OOO, 900 within
six months.-Sioux City Telegraph.