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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-29

before the finishing touches are put on,
but when they are the club will have as
handsome rooms as there are in the
state.
Frank Pickett, who has been en-
ployed on the Columbia Southern in
laying track, was Sunday sitting astride
an iron bar used in holding the rails in
place while they are spiked down, when
the bar slipped and he fell, injuring
himself severely. He was sent here
this morning, and Is at the Umatilla
House under the care of DIR. Logan.
! Mrs. L. H. Scott, who resides near
Wapinitis, while gathering muskmelons
hand by snake supposed to be rattler.
She at once went to the house and ap-
piled bluing or indigo to the wound.
Whether it was the efficacy of the bluing
or that the snake was of a non-poison-
out variety, the bite had but little effect
on her.
= The Umatilla House Office is being
changed so that old timers feel lost on
entering 1t. The counter has been
moved up to the front, the big safe
placed in the corner of the bar-room,
the door between it and the Office being
removed, and everything else is moved
as system atically as a woman changes
the bedstead and furniture in a bed
room when she has nothing else to do.
Portland has been having genuine
uzahfnOf oh0xuoro hn do
but fortunately they have not yet
reached this side of the mountains,
though the clouds have threatened rain
! for a day or two. The harvest is all
completed except in the Palouse, and
there it lie about done, SO that little dam
age could now be done except to the
threshed wheat that remains uncovered
in the fields.
The Hood River fair begins Wednes-
day next, and the display of fruits will
be one of the finest ever seen in the
Northwest. The railroad and boat
lines have made special rates for the oc-
casion, and we urge all interested in
fruit-growing and all who like to see
beautiful displays of orchard and vine
products to attend. The fair begins
Wednesday and holds over Thursday and
Friday.
The funeral of the late Charles John.
ston took place from the Masonic hal
this morning at 10 o'clock, the funera
services being conducted by Rev. w. G
Curtis, followed by the rites of the order
, of which deceased was an honored mem
ber. The casket was covered with
flowers, simple tributes of love anC
friendship. The long procession tina
wound Its way out to the city of thu
dead, spoke more eloquently than word
of the esteem in which the dead engin
eer was held.
> Even gum-chewing may stand one il
,, , good stead upon occasion, as one youni
woman of Camden, Me-, found durin
an ascent of Mount Battle. She wor
shortSSskirt and it caught on broker
< bit of shrubbery and was torn. Sh
e calmly took the gum she was chewin
b from her mouth, put the torn parts c
o the dress into place and fixed ther
It there with it. Anybody who has mad
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-29

Just received another large shipment
of fruit cans at Maier & Benton's. s24-tf
Thirty-four of our merchants have
signed the agreement not to collect until
Monday, the 4th.
Wanted-A girl to do housework foI
family of three. Inquire at thif
Office. s24-tf
Collection day, owing to it falling on
Saturday, has, by general consent, been
postponed until Monday, Oct. 4th.
A few focks of wild geese have made
their appearance from the north, which
indicates that the Klondikers are hav.'
ing come winter weather.
= The wheat market is weak and the
price is going slowly but steadily down
Quotations today are 73 cents, and the
market very weak at that.
\ The ladies of the Methodist church,
will give a social Saturday night, at
which a program will be rendered, and
pies, cakes etc., will be served. All for
Is cents.
The funeral of the late William Hook
man will take place from the Methodist
church tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock,
and the interment will be in charge of
the Knights of Pythias, who will con-
duct the burial services according to the
Nrituals of their order.
Tuesday evening the 1O-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Haslam was
playing on the fence in front of their
residence when he fell and one of the
sharp iron pickets penetrated his lung.
The wound is a dangerous one, but it is
thought the boy will recover.
We note the ladies hats continue to be
worn larger and more of them, and the
indications are that the once popular
Gainsborough is to again be the fashion
To our notion it was the prettiest hat
the fairy fingers of a milliner evel
trimmed or the face of lovely woman
/ ever adorned.
K The Columbia Southern expects to ge
Its road completed by Friday night
There is lots of work piled up for it tt
do, and it will be kept busy unit
Christmas moving the wheat crop. Th,
road is losing $500 day by not beins
completed, as farmers need money anC
are hauling their wheat to Rufus.
Dahlia purple, tannip/ brown AMI
rousse green are the Jthree popular
shades in millinery, and the walkin,
hat has superseded ths so-long favorite
the sailor. All these popular shade
and shapes will be shown at the CRANE
opening at Mrs. Briggs millinery par
lors tomorrow afternoon and evening.
Members of the Commercial Club loo
as disconsolate as lot of bees who's
hive has been destroyed. The clu
rooms are all torn up and they haye n
place to go. It will be several weeks ye
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-29
Meeting Notice.

The officers and members of Friend
ship Lodge, No. 9. K. of P, are hereby
notified to meet in Castle Hall tomor-
row at 9 o'clock, to attend the funeral of
our late brother, w. NJ. Hickman. By
order of the lodge. D. w. VAUsE,
K. of r. and S..
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-29

Bread, cakes and everything of that
kind, as well as confectionery, Ice cream,
etc., at the Elite, next door to Parkin's
barber shop. 7-tf
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-29
An Experiment in Sowing.

Farmers near Garfield are trying an
experiment in sowing fall wheat. A few
sowed their early summer fallow to
wheat in June, and the grain is now
from four to six inches high and grow
ing nicely. The object of the early SOW
ing is to get the seed in the ground be-
fore the June rains so that all of it will
come up and get good start before cold
weather.
Besides getting well-rooted, the wheat
makes fine fall pasture, lasting until the
ground is too damp to allow tramping.
Another advantage claimed is that the
wheat will be high enough during the
winter to hold the snow from blowing
off. and thus the roots will be protected
by the tops and the snow from the freez-
ing and thawing of the ground, which,
in the past, has proved So disastrous to
winter wheat.
Senator McCroskey has 200 acres OF
this wheat, which now affords splendid
pasture for stock, and there are several
other fields in this vicinity. One field
between Garfield and Pennington is
fully elk inches high, and covers the
ground with a perfect carpet. giving the
appearance of field in June, and max
| ing beautiful contrast with the fields
of ripened grain which surround it or
| all aidas
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-29
Tbs DalIes Daily Chronicle.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 1885,
wAYslDE. GLEANINes.

Random Observations and Local Events
of Lesser Magnitude.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-29
Pioneer Bakery Ready for usIness.

Pioneer Bakery Ready Tor Business.
In connection with my grocery store
have again reopened this we;l-known
bakery, and am now prepared to furnish
my friends and patrons with fresh bread
every morning. Thanking you all for
,favors received in the past, would ask
for the continuance OF the same.
GEO. RUCH,
spt29-tf Pioneer Grocer.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-29

Try schiIling's Best tea and baking powder
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
Writer'S and Sneakers.

The principal difference between writ
ers and speakers is, after all, to be discov-
cred in temperament. The presence of an
audience, especially n large audience, has
always one of two effects on "a man. 1t
either stimulates or depresses him. To the
born speaker it lends vivacity to the intel.
lcct and fluency to the tongue; others it
strikes dumb. A man may of course be
fluent without being an orator An empty
man is often fluent-that Is due to vanity;
"a pompous man is sometimes confident
and ready of speech-that is duo to con-
ceit. The one chatters on, serenely uncon-
scious that he is talking nonsense; the
other has too lofty a sense Of his own i'm
portance To suspect for u moment that his
rounded periods are mere commonplace.
The fact is that In every case the fruit
smacks of the soil
But even with the greatest orators there
is not only particular style and flavor
peculiar To each. but so complete and close
an adaptation to the taste of the audience
addressed that the oratory Of one age is
very apt TO seem WEAKNESS or darkness to
the next -Gentleman Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
BE SURE YOU ARE RIGHT.
Young Men In Business Should 30 Sure
Before Going Ahead.

One of the many important points to be
impressed upon the understanding of "a
subordinate, and one that the manager
should be sure is understood, is that moth
ing should be attempted unless tho idea is
perfectly clear
But rather than appear dull of appre-
hension the asserting reply is given when
the idea is very vague.
MY first position entailing any respon-
sibility," said a retired merchant twas To
make payments of the city bills, which our
house settled monthly. My duties consist
ed in taking the statements and the
amount which the bookkeeper prepared
and placed in n small hand satchel Some
times ] would have only $50, again 5000
or $500. On my first trip the cashier count
ed the money, footed the statements and
handed me the satchel, cautioning me
about taking receipts for money paid out
and not to pay out moro than the state
ments called for. 1t was considered quite
an honor to make these monthly trips, and
therefore when / was called into Office l
was very proud indeed, the elation some
what turning my head. After had start
ed found l was dreadfully hazy on some
points, but my pride would not permit
my return to the Office made several pay
iHohos anu was cohgraouiatlnB HyselI on
my business abilities when l came to a
store where the clerk who received the
money said, See here, young man, this
calls for S35, not S25. He was very dicta-
torial, so much so that thought he must
be very high in authority, so l trembling
ly handed over $40 more and hurriedly
thrust the receipt he gave me in the satch-
el and got out Us quick as l could OF
course, when l came TO the last man
was SO short-a contingency that had
not occurred to me. Considerably crest
fallen, retSirned to the office and made
my statement. Imagine my CONSERVATION
when l was shown the receipt given me
by my pompous friend for $751; Where was
the SHOP Well, paid over my own money
to make up the shortage, but the lesson
was worth all 1t cost. "--Hardware.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
NEW YEARS THE FRENCH HOLIDAY.
Jan. 1 the Day of Presents and Fetes In
Paris.

NV Year, not Christmas, Is the French
day of days. The only bit of unusual
Christmas gayety is the morning rush of
the children from chimney TO chimney to
investigate the suspended stockings and
boots. They usually find NJ. Santa Claus
TO be a wag, leaving few toys, but making
many pleasantries.
New Year Is more jubilant. You wake
TO see in your doorway smiling, well
soaped maid. AS your eyes open she rush
es on you, crying, "Bonne AIMEE" No
sinking under the bedclothes will spare
you an expectant New Year kiss, to be
followed when you have made your offer
ing by a resembling one of satisfaction a
signal for other maids tarrying outside
the door to enter and wish you in like
manner happy New Year. When all have
received their token they troop out, volu-
bly, calling down upon your head the bless
ing of the saints.
You lie back upon your pillow, knowing
full well that not until every other mem
Der of the family has been visited will one
condescend to light your fire.
AT last it is lit and the we'll soaped
maid hands you cup of coffee and the
New Year roll.
Not for long are you left to dream alone
The children come with arms laden. They
make the floor a veritable toyshop. You
are called upon to examine, admire and
try.
Tops buzz, steam engines run you down,
and your washbowl is converted into "a
lake.
Thus, with dressing gown calls from
feminine members of the household, the
morning slips away. At last you scramble
to be ready for breakfast.
In the dining room are assembled the
gentlemen of the family to greet the ladies
with courtly bow and calamity to kiss
their hands. The gay breakfast is over,
the children, the youth and those of the
family in the prime of life make ready to
pay visits. They start forth, pockets and
hands filed with remembrances.
The older ones, ensconoed in great easy
chairs before the fire, wait for the young
er relatives and friends, who will come
with light and merry talk to make good
cheer.
New Year is the day of the young, the
old and the servants.-New York Times
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
Didn't Like Experiments.

One OF the Massachusetts congressman
lives near Boston. He has a beautiful es-
tate, his admiration for which is shared
by his coachman, Mike. The other day
Mike brought a couple of his Irish friends
upon the place. and after escorting them
around the grounds and showing them
the stable ushered them into the hall
There, somewhat to his surprise, he met
his employer, but the latter was deter
mined not to be outdone in hospitality by
his coachman. Bring your friends right
into the dining room, Mike, - he said, and
into the dining room the trio followed
him.
NOW, my men, of course you can have
what you like, ~ he remarked as he stood
by the sideboard, "but have drink here
that l think you will like. There is %
story 10 it, by the way, he added, (which
may interest you. 1t is called Benedictine,
and 1t is made by monks up on the Alps.
They fill a little flask with it and send out
their st. Bernard dogs TO find travellers
who may be overcome by the cold When
poor, half frozen fellow is found, he
drinks little of this cordial from the
flask, and then he is able to follow the
dogs to a place of SHELTER
The men listened to the story in silence.
Finally one of them mustered up courage
10 speak Have you any gimp ho asked.
Certainly, said the congressman as
he laid aside the cordial "Help yourself A."
The men took n good, substantial drink
of gin and smiled happily over its familiar
taste.
That wasn't bad, " said one of them.
Now bring on your dog liquorP Wash
ington Post
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
VIII Go Around the Horn.

The little two masted schooner Myr-
tie Camp, which is bound from Cheboy.
gan, Mich, around the stormy Horn to
Honolulu, arrived in New York the 9TH
er day and put into Erie basin to fit
out for her long voyage. She had been
33 actual sailing days from her home
port on Lake Michigan to New York.
Her skipper, Captain Gunderson, says
he has been ordered by his owner, Os.
wald +. Stevens, to trade between the
Hawaiian Islands. Captain Gunderson
has a crew of five men. His experience
has been confined chiefly to the lakes.
The Myrtle Camp measures 4S. 40 tons,
is 81 feet inches long, IS feet 1 inch
broad and feet 8 inches deep. She was
built at Manitowoc, Wis, in 1892.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
Self Hardening Steel.

Tho employment of self hardening steel
is said to DO rapidly extending. 1t is char
acterized as "a kind of steel which is hard
when in its normal state, as it cools nat
urally in the atmosphere, there being no
necessity of quenching it in water or Of
cooling 1t rapidly from q red heat in any
manner. 1t becomes soft enough to DO shap-
ed into simple forms when redhot, is of a
nature that will not endure white heat
and Is at a much higher temperature at
such heat than wrought iron is when it Is
equally luminous, and throws dark red
spark from the emery wheel when there is
much carbon in its composition. Accord
ing to Spaulding, the we'll known writer
on metallurgy, 1t appears that wherever
this kind of steel is used 1t overcomes In q
short time the prejudice which its employ.
ment generally meets. Thus tool dressers
are said to be not favorably disposed to-
ward 1t at the start, because it is very hard
to work into shape upon the anvil, and
nothing whatever can DO done in the way
Of cutting or bending it when it is cold.
After the tool comes back to be dressed
over there is danger that defects may be
disclosed upon reheating. New York Sun
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
Greeks as Fighters.

Smolenski had placed a battery Of
mountain guns on plateau overlooking
the village of Velestino, and along the
base of this plateau was battalion of
Evzones, sheltered by the position Of
the ground and by intrenchments The
battery on the plateau played on the
Turkish advance with great effect, and
the order was given by the Turkish
commander to charge it. The Turkish
infantry swung clear, and the cavalry,
led by young officer, came ON in col
umn, first at the trot and then at
swinging gallop. 1t seemed mad I'M
dertaking for cavalry to charge bat
terry OF well served artillery planted on
the crest of long, steep slope.
The brave horsemen were met with
salvos OF shells which plowed through
their ranks. Then suddenly uprose the
Evzones from their partially hidden
cover and poured upon them volley after
volley. No troops could Withstand such
IRE, and, completely broken, the Turk
lsh horsemen turned and sought shelter
III the woods in the neighborhood OF
Rlsomylos. - "With the Greeks In
Thessaly," by w. Kinnaird Rose.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
ANTARCTIC POSSIBILITIES.
E42lOrer Borcbgrevink Thinks There May
BE a Future For Commerce There.

The recent Antarctic expedition was a
commercial one and commercially it was
D failure, because we did not find the right
whale, so valuable for its whalebone. The
Antarctic was fitted out for the hunt of
that particular kind of whales neverthe-
less have no doubt that the commercial
result of the expedition would have boon
much better had we worked under more
favorable auspices.
do not by any means consider the fact
of our not having met with the right
whale in those seas as conclusive proof of
their nonexistence in the bay at Victoria
Land. The Antarctic found the right
whale at Campbell island in the winter
time; the boats fastened to five of them,
Of which, however, only one was caught
Now, to me 1t does not seem improbable
that these whales go south to the bay of
Victoria Land, where Ross saw them, in
the summer, and return north in the win
ter. 1t would seem incredible that man
Of Sir James Ross< standing, supported as
he was by able scientists and experienced
whalers, should have made grave error
when he said that this valuable whale was
to be found in large numbers in those
southern ATTITUDES.
The difference in the appearance of the
blue whale, as we found it there, and the
right whale, in the method of spouting, is
so striking that even the most casual OBJ
server could not easily be deceived. Very
possibly, had we penetrated farther into
the large open bay discovered by Ross In
the vicinity of the volcano peaks Erebus
and Terror, we too, would have found the
right whale in great numbers. We saw
very many blue whales, but had not the
appliances to take them.
AS l remarked at the international peo-
graphical congress, we found few seals
They increased, however, in number as
we worked eastward, and seemed afraid
Of the land. All of the seals that we met
on the shore showed much uneasiness. and
speedily made for the water, fact which
strengthened my belief in the existence of
q large enemy of the seal on the CONT.
nent. do not doubt that the seals con.
gregate together In larger numbers Mt
some places on the bay.
/ consider the guano beds which we dis
covered OF great commercial Importance.
and they ought to be well worth the at.
tention OF enterprising business men. Tho
specimen which 1 brought back with me
contains large percentage of ammonia
Furthermore, from the analysis of tho
specimen OF rock which 1 BROUGHT baok
with me, the possible and probable presence
OF valuable minerals on the cont,nent ,s
proved, although the lava and the volcanic
aspect OF the coast line do not speak IN
vorapy for the presepce Of heavy metals
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
THE RETIRED BURGLAR.
One of the Most Curious OF His Many Re-
markable Adventures.


"wAsr got up to the top Of the first
| flight of stairs OF house that was in
one night said the retired burglar, land
| looked along the hall OF the second story,
l saw coming from partly opened door
down toward the front Of the hall on the
left bright light. The stairs came up at
the rear OF the hail and on the right The
door OF this room where the light was
opened on the side toward the front of the
house. SO that from where / stood l could
see a little OF the front Of the room through
the opening. | listened. but didn't hear
anything, and went along down toward
the front l thought somebody must have
gone 10 bed and left the light up but when
got up near the door could see man
sitting in big chair over on the other
side OF the room. Up there by the door
could see pretty much all of the front of
the room. There was a bureau standing
AGAINST the front wall between tho two
windows, and the man was over in the
corner beyond. He wasn't sitting back
comfortable in the big chair, but forward
in il, with his arms resting on his knees
and his hands together in front of him
with finger tips touching, thinking;
thinking hard about something. He did
not see me, he wouldn't have seen mo If
I'd stood right alongside of him, he was
so busy thinking.
pretty soon he gets up and makes for
the bureau. He laid his two hands on the
handles of the top drawer, looking at the
same time into the mirror-with pretty
solemn sort of face it was too Then he
begins to draw out the top drawer slow,
still looking all the time into the mirror.
i had sort of an instinct then what it
was all about, but still didn't fully real
ize it till he'd got the drawer about half
way out and had let go of the right hand
handle and reached over with his right
hand into the drawer, still looking square
into the mirror, and lifted out a gun and
up with il to his head.
Hey, therep says /, you brass mount
ed, blue nodded idiot What's the matter
with your and l makes a break for him,
and, of course, he swings around, for it's
tremendous surprise to him, and in about
sixteenth part of second I've got his
gun, and we're standing there looking at
each other; a young fellow he was, and
not bad looking chap.
We'll, do you know that young chap
had just simply made a failure of some
business undertaking and lost all his mon
ey, and he was sensitive and despondent
over it and that night he'd sat there and
brooded over it till he thought he couldn't
stand it any longer, and he'd just upset
himself.
"Well! l gave him kind of talking
TO. tried to make it clear to him that he
wasn't poor, but rich. Lost your money!
says |. why, great Caesars gripsack
You've got youth and health and strength,
haven't you? What more do you wantY
And he took it all in good part, and left
him feeling better and grateful to me for
dropping in. New York sun.