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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-12-01


Direct connection at San Francisco with Occi-
dental and Oriental and Pacific mail steamship
lines Tor JAPAN and CHINA. Sailing dates on
application.
Rates and tickets to Eastern points and Eu
rope. Also JAPAN, CHINA, HONOLULU and
AUSTRALIA. can be obtained from
J. B. KIRKLAND, Ticket Agent.
Through Ticket once 1s4 Third street, where
through tickets to all points in the Eastern
states, Canada and Europe can be obtained at
lowest rates from
]. B. KIRKLAND, Ticket Agent
All above trains arrive at and depart from
Grand Central Station. Fifth and Irving streets
YAMHILL DIVISION.
Passenger Depot, foot of Jefferson street.
7:20 a. M. 12:15, 1:45, 5:25, 6:45, +t8:05 D. m.
(and IL 80 p m. on Saturday only, and $40 a. m
and $3.50 p. m. Sundays only). Arrive at
Portland oaily at +7:10 and $50 M; and 80,
"a 10, 6:35 and 7:55 p. M, (and 10 Is and
$40 p m. on Sundays only.
Leave for Sheridan, week days, 1t $3.50 D. m
Arrive at Portland, $3.50 a. m.
Leave for AIRLIE on Monday, Wednesday and
Frfuay at 9:40 a. m. Arrive at Portland, Tues
dav, Thursday and Saturday at 3:05 p. IN.
*Except Sunday. ++Except Saturday.
r. KOEHLER, &, 81. MARKHAM,
Manager. Asst G. F. q Pass. Agt
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-12-01
RATES or FARE
). s. scHENk. HIM BEAL,
President. Cashier
First National Bank.

THE DALLES OREGON
Deposits received, subject to Sight
Draft or Check.
Collections made and proceeds prom ptlv
remitted on day of collection.
Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold ON
New York, San Francisco anS PORT
land.
DIRECTORS
D. P. THoMPsoN. JNo. s. ScHENcK.
Ed. M. WILLIAMS, GEO. A. LIEBK.
b. M. BEALL.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-12-01

INDEPENDENCE PASSENGER. Express train
Daily Except Sunday
4;50 p. m. tLv Portland Ar, S:25. a. m.
{ 80 p. m. Al. .MeMinnvile. Lv.S $3.50 a, m.
$3.50 p. m Car. Independence..Lv.> 4:aO a. m.
The evening times., 1897-02-02
DOWN BRAKES.

In less than one year the time will expire
in which railway corporations, under the
law passed some years ago, must equip
their cars with automatic couplers and
brakes. The majority of companies have
as yet done nothing to comply with the
statute, and as they will become delin-
quent on the first OF January next, Con-
greSs is urged to extend the time until
1903.
il is probable that this extension, unless
IL should be accompanied by some definite
guaranty on the part of the railways, viii
be opposed by the labor organizations.
The change fr,m the present man-killing
system would he, IL is true, expensive,
and few companies would be likely to
effect IL except under compulsion. II they
secure another open season of five years,
it is not impossible that they might depend
upon getting still another at the end of
that time, and refrain from action in the
interim
Nothing is more certain than that, while
the present crude system remains in vogue,
the accident mortality among railway
employees always viii he greater than, in
an humanity and decency, it should be.
The evening times., 1897-02-02
STRUCK BOTTOM

In addition TO the unlimited vidousness
OF inanimate things they posscss the imi-
ta;ive faculty an a degree that is painful.
When the wise men of the country tell
Us that the troubles OF the past are over, 4,
that we have struck bottom then every
thing else begins 10 emulate the situation,
and strike bottom also.
This seems to be especially true OF our
neat but expensive warships. One Of the
highest priced strikes bottom at her moor
ings in front OF the Brooklyn navy yard;
another one hits it hard off Governors
Island, and now the Brooklyn not only
strikes bottom in the Delaware, hut knocks
a hole in her own, incidentally. This
striking bottom habit is permeating the
Navy to such an extent that it is doubt
ful if Mr. Herbert would dare TO go out
OF the house on a slippery day.
But after things strike bottom. unless
they stay there, they start for the top
again. Let us hope that this evolution,
by way of a change, may succeed to the
present popularity of the other.
The evening times., 1897-02-02
Interviewed Their Wives.

A curious addendum to this subject, the
Seeley dinner, writes 'Flaneur'' in the San
Francisco Argonaut, is the publication Of
interviews with ladies whose husbands
were present at the dinner. OF the twenty
two guests nine We're married men and the
wives OF fthreeofthem havebeen interviewed
on their opinion Of the affair and their feel
ing toward their spouses. One of them
speaks al ronymously, but Mrs. Alfred Mar
shall and Mrs. Charles Tobias seem to have
had ro hesitancy in giving the public the
benefit of their views. Mrs. Marshall is
confident there was nothing Objectionable
in the entertainments, her husband and
brother having told her all about it. She
scould have witnessed it herself with per-
feet propricty,' and mo gentleman need
have been ashamed 10 have had it occur in
his own home'' Mrs. Charles Tobias was
told all about the dinner, including the in
cident of the raid, as soon a S her husband
got home that night, and was therefore
quite prepared for the Sensational accounts
printed in the papers. Mr.. Tobias is to he
commended a s a model husband who knows
when to take time by the forelock The
Christmas present given him at the din
ner, however, seems to have been like
a donation OF cnals to Newcastle 1t was
a bottle Of Moxie's nerve food.
The evening times., 1897-02-02
THE NEW THAMES TUNNEL

English people are congratulating Them
selves over the approaching completion OF
the new tunnel under the Thames at Black
wall, and growing over the fact that 'tbe
biggest city in the world will hold proud
possessionof the biggest tunnel
The largest tunnel on this side of the At
lantic is the one under the st. Clair River,
which is twenty-one feetin diameter. That
building under the Hudson has an external
diameter of nineteen feet, while the Black
wall tunnel is not less than twenty seven
feet across.
The length of the ne W tunnelis 200 feet,
though the breadth Of the river at Blackwell
is only ,212 feet, an apparentextravaGa
accountedfor by the fact that in order to get
beneath the bed OF the river the engi-
neers had to go down depth OF eighty feet
below Thames high water. That the ap-
proacbes might not be too steep, therefore,
the tunnel had to be made about five times
tile actual breadth OF the river crossed.
Our American tunnels have been bored
through clay, but the Blackwall tunnel had
to be bored through gravel, an undertaking
infinitely more dfficult-so difficult, in
deed, that many OF the most experienced
engineers, when consulted, doubted whether
the enterprise could be carried through all
right.
The undertaking was, however, an i'm
perative necessity. Nearly 1000 900 Lon
doners live east of London bridge, and until
two years ago, when & he Tower bridge was
opened, they had only three ways OF
crossing the river-by the foot passenger
subway at the Tower, by the Mapping tun
mel and by the Wool wich free ferry. There
was not a single bridge east OF London
bridge.
The Blackwall tunnel was begun in April,
1892. Extraordinary precautions were
taken on behalf of the workmen engaged.
AS q sample, to avoid the danger of chill
in passing out of compressed air into ordi-
nary atmosphere, a covered passage To the
bank was built for the men. and hot baths
and dry clothes awaited them at the close
OF each days work 1t is hoped that the
queen will open the tunnel in person, by
way of celebrating the sixtieth year OF her
reign
The evening times., 1897-02-02
SUNDAY BAD HABITS

To replace our three regular meals at
morning, noon and night by late rising
and abstinence, followed by glutt0ny un
Sunday, is declared to be a vicious
system" The gastric secretions, accord
ing TO a medical authority, know nothing OF
seventh day OF rest They are prepared
for the usual weekday breakfast hour,
but no food comes TO them and they are
consequently absorbed
Later in the day the process is repe lated
and then insult is added to the stumach's
injury by loading ii unusually full Of food,
when the secretion is no longer there in
sufficient quantity to digest il. The regu-
lar Sunday afternoon discomfort follows,
with disnchnation for the evening meal
and-al the horrors of blue Monday
The dyspeptic is advised 10y his ply
sician to take his meals at absolutely regu-
lar intervals, and frequently follows the
instructions six days of the week, only 10
disregard them entirely on the seventh
Nine out of ten American families tissue
an invitation to dyspepsia very seventh
day." regardless of the fact that a nor
mal stomachache is almost unknown in this
country.
The evening times., 1897-02-02
THEY LIVE COMPARATIVELY

Many times have cooperative schemes Oh
living been tried, but they have invariably
failed. There is a community nalf-mlie
from Boston, called Brookline, where the
cooperative scheme has been brought to
perfection, al because the manager, as he
says, KNEW when TO stop"
.'The minute you encroach on the per-
sonal liberty of people," said Mr.. Knapp,
the manager, then your scheme is ruined.
The interesting part of this enterprise is
that it was started a few years ago by
Mr.. Knapp, who counted his money by
millions, solely as a fad. He bought
large tract of land, divided it into ter
races, and on them built groups Of
houses, which were costly affairs, forty
eight in number, dreams of architectural
beauty, clustered around a central club
house Since then he has lost his fortune
and ma kes his living managing Beaconsfield
Terrace, as the place is called.
Living is expensive there. There has
been no attempt at cooperative cooking
and each residence has its own cooks and
maids, but if a valet or maid is wanting
one can he hired to come once week and
oversee the wardrobe. Each house is fur
nished with steam heat from little
building at the end of the village, at the
rate of from SIT to S35 a month. There
is never any fuss over furnace fires and
coal for the residences of the terrace
A man is engaged at So per house TO
clean sidewalks, shovel snow, polish out
side brasses, etc. A little wagon delivers
daily packages from Boston and takes
bundles from tire terrace to other points.
A big stable supplies all kinds of carriages
cheaper than livery stable rates and ac-
commodities the private vehicles Of wealthy
residents. A florist shop supplies fresh
flowers, and all these supply stations are
connected with each house by call bells
telegraph office is in the managers
room A handsome terrace drag takes
parties into town instead of a rafting
trolley car.
When woman fortunate enough to live
in the terrace wants to give a tea or party
she does not tear up her own home, but
rents the handsome Casino for SO and its
very pretty rooms serve the purpose inn
mensely well. A Kindergarten for the chill
dren is held in the Casino mornings, but
the rest of the day, when it is not privately
rented, il is free clubhouse TO the village
There is large playground for the chill
dren and big tennis court.
AS a cooperative scheme for the wealthy
residents of Beaconsfieid Terrace thescheme
is a great success, but brought down to a
more economical basis men Of affairs are
doubtful as to its efficiency.
The evening times., 1897-02-02
A watch That Winds Itself.

The latest novelty in the line of time
keepers will appeal to lazy and forgetful
people. 1t consists of a watch which does
not require any winding. All that is neces-
sary for it's owner to do, in order to have
the time with him always, is to walk half
a mile day The watch does the rest.
These novel watches are got out in sew
eral varieties of cases, some of them ex-
tremely ornamental, but the kind most
commonly seen in Chicago is made with
plain black case and an open face. The
winding mechanism consists of an iRgeni-
Gus contrivance by which a small weight
is raised and lowered from the jar Of
walking. The motion of the weight works
a small ratchet arrangement, which winds
the spring TO its full tension, and then is
automatically held until more winding is
needed A course OF shaking up and down
for few minutes will answer the same
purpose as a stroll afoot, while all the
jolts and Jars OF ordinary existence are
likewise made useful as means of winding
The evening times., 1897-02-02
Kent Ransom for His strle.

Ransom was perhaps the best-dreSSesi
m1n in the Senate, says the Chicago Times
Herald He was more particular about
his linen and his general appearance than
he seemed to be about the laws of his
country As he walked TO his seat at the
noon hour every day he looked as If he
had Just left his barber and his tailor.
Speaking about this feature Of the North
Carolina gentleman one day Villas said that
during a trip he had made TO Buncombe
county, North Carolina, he met a man
named Jones, who invited him to his
stables to look at a pretty horse. He
was a handsome ANIMAL" continued Villas,
land l asked Jones If he was of Hamble-
tonian stock. He replied in the negative.
A runner, then, 1 asked. Jones said that
he couldn't catch a tortoise. Family
pet? / suggested. Again was mistaken.
See here them said to Jones, what in
the world are you taking such excellent
care of him for if he is worthless
Look here, mister he replied, that
horse is named Matt Ransom and l am
just 'er keeping him for style And the
reason Ransom is always returned to the
Senate continued Villas. lis because North
Carolina is proud of his style
When Ransom heard of this he was
furious. He went to villas and warned
the story he would make it a personal
matter with him. And Pansom was a
fighter and Villas knew it.
The evening times., 1897-02-02
To Blame for the Plague

The local authorities seem to be to blame
in no small degree for the spread OF the
piaguein Bombay. Instead of stamping the
germ out by drastic measures. such as
wholesale whitewashing, disinfecting an'i
cleaning, and the destruction by fire of
filthy novels in the worst quarters Of the
town, the only thing that has been done
apparently is to isolate actual cases and
recommend cleanliness in an indefinite and
general sort OF way IL is, OF course, diff
cult TO make a bigOted, half-civiIiZed peO
pie conform TO positive sanitary rules and
regulations, but il the Bombay authorities
had given the doctors full power and had
attacked the disease at it's start, as was
done in Hong Kong, whether the natives
liked 1t or not. the present awful condition
of affairs, with hundreds dying daily and
the greater part OF the population fleeing
from the city to spread the plague else
where, might have been averted.
The evening times., 1897-02-02
SUCCESSFUL FAILURES

Dickens was one OF the greatest of Eng
come an actor which caused him, in the
first place, TO turn his attention to litera-
ture.
David Livingstone studied for three years
with the sole aim OF being a missionary to
China { was only because his hopes W ere
crushed by the opium war" which made
itinpossible to enter China, that he thought
of going to Africa, and was the means Of
opening up a whole continent to Chris
tianity and civilization.
Columbus discovered America through his
failure to reach India, as he hoped to do by
sailing westward.
Some years agoaningenious plan wa pro
posed by a man named Joggins for send
ing logs from Canada to New York by tow
ing thera, hound together by cables and iron
girderS as RATS. The plan failed, as the
first raft sent out met with storm near
the end Of its voyage. the iron girders snap
ped. and the logs were scattered far and
vile. Hundreds of captains in the Atlantic.
the Mediterranean and the South Seas nc
tice1 these logs and reported on them. The
reports were collected and sySteHatiZed,
and deductions made from them as to the
course OF ocean currents In the end the
failure of the Joggins raft led TO one of the
greatest discoveries in modern marine ge
ography and navigation.
The evening times., 1897-02-02

railway in New Jersey The legislature
OF that State is considering bill to conn
pei the railways of the commonwealth TO
dead-head all cycles. There was a time,
in the days OF our bondage to these soul
laughed at the proposition; but that day
and theirs is past. New Jersey will enact
the law OF course; il for no other reason,
to make Mr.. Hobart popular in a city
where nothing and nobody has any rights
which a scorcling cycle is bound to re-
spect.
The evening times., 1897-02-02
HENRY HEITFEID.
Idaho's New Senator-EIect as He
Really Was and Is,

Henry Heitfeld is recognized as man
or gOOG character. His uprightness is
proverbiaI in the section where he resides.
Heitfcld, the Senator elect, was born in
st. Louis, in January, 1859. His father,
Henry Heitfeld, who was OF German birth
died in 1867 The future Senator at
tended the public schools of St Louis
until 1870, when, with his mother, he
moved TO Seneca, Kan, learning the trade
of stone mason.
In 1882 Mr. Heitfeld moved into the
Northwest, locating al Pomeroy, Wash
where he remained one year While
there he took up two claims in the Big
Bend country, one a homestead and the
other a timber culture While holding
the land he worked in the shops OF the
Northern Pacific Railroad, at spTague,
continuing that employment until the fall
OF 1888, when he became a resident of
Idaho.
Tie man upon whom the Senatorial foga
was destined to fall settled in Nez Perce
county, short distance from the Washing
ton line, his postoffice being CniOntOwn,
Wash. There he has since been engaged
as a farmer, fruit grower and cattIan an
He has siXty-fOur acres OF land and has
been conspcuoGsIy successful in his opera
tons. Mr. Heitfeid is married and has
five children. He enjoys the confidence
ami esteem OF his ne ghbors and is regarded
bt Eli who know him as a model citizen.
In politics Mr. Heitfeld was a Dem1cTat
until he joined the POpIlsts HeiS nlenI-
ber OF the Farmers Alliance. and il was
through his connection with that organ
ization that he was influenced IL Join
himself with the PopuiiSt party. II was
on the day of Clcveland's nomination in
1892 that he rcnounced lis Democracy
and entered the ranks OF the new party
He was active in politics but never held any
office until lie was chosen in 1894 10
represent NeZ PerCe and Latah counties in
the State Senate He served as State
senator through the third session, i'm
pressing those coming in contact with him
as man of honest intentions, who tried
TO do what he believed to be right.
The new Senator is a magnificent speci-
men Of physical development He is a six
footer and weighs 22O pounds.
The evening times., 1897-02-02
who the Dunkards Are.

The Dunkards, or TunEers. of whom the
governor of Kansas is q representative, be-
long to a sect founded in 70S at Schwarz-
enau, Germany, by Alexander Mack and
seven others, who rejected the doctrines
OF pacdo-baptism. The name is a nick
name, derived from the German Tunker-
to dip: members of the sect styling them
selves brethren. Persecution drove the
founders to Holland, and between ! 719 and
1929 they all emigrated thence to America.
They are found in Pennsylvania, Maryland,
virginia, Ohio, and Indiana, and it is
apparent that some have found their way
further west, but their numbers all told
are not great. Their church discipline is
nearly the same as that of other Baptists,
except that every brother is allowed TO
exhort. Men found apt to teach are
ordained ministers, and the oldest teachers
bishops. The Dunkards affect great plain
ness Of speech and dress, like the QUakers.
Neither take oaths, fight nor go to law,
and formerly they took no interest. They
celebrate the taking of sacrament with
love feasts, washing of feet, the kiss Of
charity, and the right hand of fellowship,
anoint the sick with oil for recovery, and
practice complete immersion, with laying
on hands and prayer even when the person
hantized is in the water.
The evening times., 1897-02-02
Up on the Match Question

A correspondent makes confession: II
have habit when go to restaurant Of
helping myself to matches, whether need
them or not. Now, go there three times
a day, and every time ! take, on an av-
erage, ten matches. That makes thirty
matches day, or 210 week Now, TAX
ing 2S days to a lunar month. that makes
$3.50 matches month, and iii the thirteen
lunar months constituting year, 76, ,440
matches. Isuppose there are 90 customers
of that restaurant, and il only half of
them take as many matches as do there
would be grand total of 1922. 900
matches That means considerable money
Now, the question is, how much do all the
restaurants in town lose in matches?''-
Philadelphia Record.
The evening times., 1897-02-02
THE CYCLE THEORY.

There is favorite scientific theory TO
the effect that everything moves in cycles,
On correlation with the rotary and or
bitual movements of the oblate spheroid
ppon which live, move and stick as it
were Some of the cycles, like those Of the
seasons, are too long; seventeen or even
thirty years between the maxima or minima
of ragetemperature. Itisunnecessaryto
refer to mean temperature because we
have had too recent experience with
that. other cycles are furnished with
hollow, tubular tires, which viii collapse
On the port or the starboard or any other
tack they may take. Still others are nickel
plated and cost hundred dollars.
1t all goes to show that the world not
only moves in but on cycles: which is a
scientific deduction from everything but
the price of a desirable article. In fact
the cycle has passed from the stageoftheory
60 that OF a recognized law and force.
with propulslve power 20 upset pedes-
trians, effete monohippic vehicles, and even
legislatures; and with combined effective
energy in the last named respect. almost
equal to that exerted by associatedcapital.
This is illustrated in q current collision
between the forces OF the cycle and the
The evening times., 1897-02-02
odd Items From Anywhere.


Since 1891 the population of France has
increased only 175 1000.
The farmers constitute large ma jority in
the legislatures of Maine and New Hamp-
shire.
Queen Margharita, of Italy, has one Of
the finest collections of antique lace in the
world.
InLarned Kan, not only is the life of an
unlicenseddog forfeited, but the owner must
pay fine.
Berlin savings banks note an increase Of
about $50, ,0O0, 900 last year in the sum Of
the deposits.
The Third United States Infantry, which
led the grand revie W in Washington in 1865,
is now 100 years old.
Cremation is making slow but steady
progress in Massachusetts,. There were 1877
incinerations last year.
Greenland boys are great egg collectors.
As soon as the gulls and other birds that nest
in the far north appear in the spring the
work begins No boy who has not practiced
a great deal at climbing tile rough mountain
sides and creeping over the glaciers is al
lowed to venture on the perilous task.
Miss Eva Dorsey Anderson, Of New Or
leans, has a unique souvenir in the shape OF
an album of leaves plucked from historical
trees Among them are leaves from the
Daniel Webster tree, planted near the Sol
diers' Home, n Washington, and leaves from
the tombs Of George Washington and bis
wife and mother
Tho authorities at one time were so
firmly convinced that Europeans could not
live in India without alcoholic stimuiants
that they discouraged the formation Of tenn.
perance societies among the soldiers. Opin-
ion is now altogether changed, and the Eng
lish soldiers in India include no fewer Than
20 900 total abstainers-
The evening times., 1897-02-02
Two Newspaper Clippings.

There arc $4,000 The ceremony of
men. women, and inaugurating VIII
children in Chicago liam Mckinley will
today suffering the be thoroughly i'm
paugs OF hunger preSSlyc and no
and cold. With the money VIII be spared
thermometer aver to make il surpass
aging 10 degrees be all Others The pa
low zero with in rade and the ball
sufficient clothing will be thoroughly Y
and with no fire artistic When the
and no wood or day Tor the 'nauGu-
coal to produce ration dawns at
warmth. what VIII least 100 900 visitors
10000 OF our fellow Will bc in Washing
citizens do? Manyton to add spiendor
of them Will die Of to the ceremony by
cold and hunger. their presence. 1t
Some OF them will would be difficult to
end their sorrows estimate the amount
and their physical OF money that win
anguish by suicide, be lavishly expended
but this is a gloomy on this occasion.
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