THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1892.
SHEEPMEN AROUSE
m Montana uemacrauc mmm
Mes a Bad Break. '
"WOOL GROWERS WERE INSULTED.
The Profits on Wool Too High in the
Estimation of Timothy.
MORE THAN THEY ARK WORTHY OF
Heaping up Fortune Beoame of Spe
cial Privilege to Tmx Their
Neighbor.
Great Falls, Mont., Oct. 24. The
Great Falls Tribune, owned by Timothy
13. Collins, the democratic candidate for
governor, comes out with an editorial
which has caused a sensation and is
likely to prevent Collins receiving the
vote of about every wool grower in Mon
tana. It says: "Even if the removal
of the tariff should reduce the price to
eleven cents, the price paid across the
line in Canada, sheepmen -would still
make a large profit." It casts a reflec
tion on the sheepman, Eaying that he
soon heaps up a fortune, not because he
is especially clever as a business man or
because of his good methods or intelli
gence, but because of his privilege to
lax his neighbor, under the authority of
the government. Furthermore, the
article says they would make all "they
are entitled to" without protection.
Many of the first business men of Great
Falls" got a start, in the wool business
and they, as well as the sheepmen, de
nounce the article m scathing terms,
without regard to party, lneyregara
it as nn insult, since this is the largest
wool market in the state, 4,000,000
pounds having been shipped from here
this season.
Betting on the Result.
A New York dispatch says the betting
on the result of the election is unusually
backward this year. In former cam
paigns a few weeks before the election
large sums of money were wagered and
the betting was hot and interesting.
This year there have- been only a few
really large bets. At present the betting
on the general results is even, neither
side appearing confident enough to give
-odds. There have been a few bets, how
ever, where the odds were slightly in
favor of Cleveland. Last Thursday Alex
Ogilvie, a racing man, bet $5,000 even
on Harrison. The other end of the bet
was taken by a Philadelphia syndicate.
Ogilvie is now offering a bet from $1,000
to $5,000 that Harrison will have a ma
jority of at least 50 electoral votes.
"Buck," the well-known Kentucky
tinran-Virooiloi- hot1 Kfln tn S.1 500 Thurs
day, at the St. James hotel, that Cleve
land would carry New York. Pisston,
the wealthy Philadelphia saw manufac
turer, is said to have $10,000 in the
hands of a New York friend to be placed
onJHarrison when the proper time ar
rives. Pronounced Insane.
Victobia, B. C. Captain Delaveron of
the Russian ship Zadiakias, who has
been making seizures of eealers, is said
to have been pronounced insane by the
governor of Bering island. He is also
aid to have been discharged from the
-Russian navy. Many sealing men wel
comed this information as throwing a
flood of light upon the situation, and
others are inclined to ' be skeptical.
They say that finding its position unten
able, the Russian government has ig
nominously shifted the blame to the
captain's shoulders and pronounced him
insane to avoid international difficulty.
Upon one point both parties agree, that
the information from the governor of
Bering island being true, the government
of the czar cannot avoid makinz restitu
tion in full to the sealers.
NOTICE.
All Dalles City warrants registered
prior to January 6, 1891, will be paid if
presented at my office. Interest ceases
from and after this date.
Dated October 13th, 1892.
L. RoRDEN,
tf. Treas. Dalles City.
Dissolution of Co-partnership.'
Notice is hereby given that the firm
of Abrams & Stewart has been dissolved
by mutual consent. '
W. R. Abrams is authorized to collect
all amounts due the firm of Abrams &
Stewart, and . will pay all demands
against said nrm.
W. R. Abrams.
Wm. Stewart.
The Dalles, Or., Aug. 15th, 1892.
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Notice is hereby given to all persons
indebted to the late firm of Abrams &
. Stewart, of The Dalles, or W.R. Abrams
either by note or account, to make pay
ment of the same immediately at the
. bank of French & Co. All notes and ac
counts remaining unpaid November
15th, 1892, will be placed in attorneys'
hands with instructions to collect. Any
claimfe against the late firm must be
presented at the same place, with
proper vouchers, on or before above
date, rne business oi tno nrm must De
closed tip without further delay. Res
uectfnllv. W. R. Abrams.
WHAT WE1TEBJS EARN
SOME MAKE FORTUNES AND OTH
: ERS ' MERELY A PITTANCE.
What the Late James ; Parton Earned
and How He tWed Other Authors
Who Receive Big Pay Tor Comparative
ly Little Labor Tho Average Man. .
Not long before his death James Par
ton is reported to have said that a person
who decided to support himself exclu
sively by his pen must be content to live
on about $2,000 a year. The best ac
cording to Mr. Parton, that a" literary
man could hope to attain would be $8,000
or $7,000 a year for perhaps ten or twelve
years, when the author's experience was
ripe and while he was still in his prime.
This statement seemed rather strange
coming from so successful an author as
Mr. Parton, yet it was reported in such
a way as leaves but little doubt that this
was his opinion. Yet he was himself an
example of the falsity of it. although lie
may have thought that his case was the
exception that proves the rule.
Mr. Parton was a constant writer and
a pretty frequent author for more than
forty years. Some of his books had a
phenomenal sale. His "Life of Horace
Greeley" brought him not only a hand
some income, but a small capital. His
"History of Ben Butler," and especially
of Butler's life in New Orleans after the
capture of that city, was very popular
during the war days, and Parton's life
of Aaron Burr added materially to his
possessions.
Parton earned so much money that he
was able to accumulate, and when he
left New York and went to Newbury
port, Mass., to live, just as old age was
beginning to come upon him, he had a'
sufficient property to support him, even
if he did not write another line. Of
course he could not live in luxury, but
he lived in comfort, surrounded by all
those things which made life agreeable
to him.
MEN WHO RECEIVE BIO INCOMES.
Parton was not a great author. He
wrote as a business, and it was his busi
ness to give what his clientage wanted.
And that is the secret of the success of
those who have adopted literature ae a
profession. Those who take up the pen
in order to win an exalted and perma
nent fame must undoubtedly give but
little heed to the pecuniary considera
tion, bnt those who expect to make a
living out of authorship must do as is
done in every other profession serve
their clients and increase them if pos
sible. There are a good many other examples
which indicate that Mr. Parton was mis
taken. In hisown vicinity there lived sev
enil men who had done exceedingly well
at the business of authorship. Mr. Charles
Carleton Coffin abandoned journalism
after a brilliant career as a war corre
spondent, and has made a comfortable
f ortune and a good income by writing in
a popular manner historical and anec
dotal works designed mainly for young
persons.
Mr .1. T. Trowbridf'o lives comfort-
n.M nn the income he eets from his
boys' stories, and so does Oliver Optic.
Mr. Adams, who is vjiiver vjptic ui reai
Hfo nH-Tirmch his hair is crrav and he
has become an old man, has just entered
into a contract to turnisu a series oi ten
stories for young persons, written in the
style which earned him popularity forty
years ago. He will probably write those
ten stories within a year, for he is a very
rapid workman, and while the precise
terms of payment are not Known, it is
believed that he will receive not less
than $15,000 fdr them.
General Lew Wallace is said to have
received from $75,000 to $90,000 royalty
nnnn liia Kinrl book. "Ben Hur." but
that is one of those spasmodic and phe
nomenal successes wnicn Decome iraai
irTial Mish Alriott. besides livinsr hand
somely, left an estate valued at $100,000.
all of which has been made in aooui
twenty years. Mr. George Parsons
Lathrop, his brother-in-law, Julian Haw
thorne, Edgar Baltus and iidgar r aw
cett have no other profession than liter
ature. Lathrop and Hawthorne do
some journalistic work, while Fawcett
has a private fortune. Each of these
msn ("nnnta nn makinsr as much as 5.000
a year, and Saltns' income one year was
nearly $15,000.
SOME YOUNO AUTHORS.
There have been a number of success
ful authors of late who have complained
rtint tViow riivnnnt live bv their Dens.
A few years ago a novel appeared en-
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titled "U-uernaaie. u was puousneu
over a nom de plume, "J. S. of Dale,"
and it was regarded as one of the suc
cessful books of the year. Its author.
Mr. Stimson, was a recent graduate of
Harvard college, and the success of the
book .inspired him with literary ambi
tion. Yet he has practically abandoned
literature, excepting as a by play, and"
is making money practicing law.
Robert Grant, another young Boston
litterateur who won some fame, relies
upon the practice of a dryer profession
than literature for his support. John
Habberton, who made a great hit with
"Helen's Babies," and who writes ex
ceedingly clever stories, relies upon jour
nalism for his support, while literature
is a side issue with him. Mrs. Burnett
made no money until her play, "Little
Lord Fauntleroy," was produced, al
though she had previously written sev
eral very successful novels, and she has
practically abandoned story telling for
the drama.
These cases, however, simply illus-
frofa f Vq far a f f hat. anrt. nf litarYitnre
which develops fiction cannot be relied
upon for a very handsome support. The
authors who make money are those like
barton, isenson i. Liossing ana uoma,
who are able to set forth, in a style
which does not shoot over the head of
tm TvnWin. either histnrv or the stories
of achievement or the careers of famous
men in a manner which makes the tell
ing of the story most attractive. The
BUUUW. AV MU SUM.UVW ....... . J
sure of repeating the successes of those
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Who nave Deen namea, ana woma pruv
ably earn more money in this sort of
any other business or profession. New
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THROWN OUT OF A JOB r
HOW A DISCHARGE AFFECTS DIF
FERENT MEN IN A BIG CITY.
Heroic Struggle of "Joe." Who Is but a
Representative of the Average Unfor
tunate Fellow Looking for Work How
Others Take the Sad News.
Joe's envelope said simply:
"The house regrets it can no longer
offer you employment, but its reasons
do not hinge upon your competency, I
and we take occasion to thank yon for
good work for us, wishing yon well."
Joe thought to hide the message from
John as be passed out John had worked
at his elbows for months but he didn't.
John followed him out and said:
"Stout heart, old fellow. . You'll have
a better job in a week. - If 1 can do you
a favor, call on ma My turn next, 1
imagine."
Joe walked the'streets for hours, then
went home to his wife and babies not
less surely years older than when he had
left them in the morning. He has fixed
his purpose, and will hew to it He
takes the usual trinkets to the children,
a trifle of some sort to his wife, and
gives her, as is his rule, the week's earn
ings. Then he acts for the first time in
his life he romps and carouses with
Flora until she believes he is as much a
child as herself, and his wife watches it
all from her sewing table and wonders
if she was ever as happy in the old
courting days as she is now.
And Joe's heart is heavy under it all.
for he determines that they shall not
know of his bad Inck'until he has anoth
er job. He is hurt, humiliated, repulsed
he feels that the house has clipped him
off because it could spare him more eas
ily than any one of the hnndred odd oth
ers that it has retained. - -
"But that little wife sitting there with
her head full of belief in me mustn't
know she mnst believe me all 1 seemed
to be."
WORK AT LAST.
He looks for work ten hours a day for
a week and doesn't find it Saturday he
pawns his watch for a week's wages and
carries it home, telling them that his
watch had been stolen from him, but
that he had a clew to the thief and that
Inspector Byrnes would catch him in a
few days. He says to himself that fate
stole it from him, bnt he keeps up the
play bravely and with fortitude answers
the evening queries of the home ones
about whether they have found the
watch. The next two weeks are tided
over by selling the Building and Loan
stock. Then he borrows another week's
pay of a friend.
Every morning he starts "to work" at
the regular hour; every evening he re
turns. They go to the theater; they buy
some needed and long promised clothes;
they pay their regular missionary money
and church fees for Joe is playing a
desperate hand now, but with an insane
sort of coolness. Something asks him
over and over again every day, "Where
will it end?" but Joe just sets his lips a
little harder and don't reply even ia
thought
His encyclopedia goes next He loans
it to a friend down town at the office, so
be tells them at home. Joe cant eat
heartily this week. He watches his wife
and children's lightheartedness some
thing like a brute would do stoically,
unmoved. He tells Amy to drink his cup
of tea; he has no appetite, and don't want
it. Then he is for the farst time in his
life affected with satan's specially ex
ported article of disease insomnia. He
sits for hours watching his family as they
sleep, and be feels a heavy weight slowly
settling upon his brain that he cannot
understand the meaning of.
N ert day he finds another position, and
bis wife doesn't understand why he gives
way so completely for the first time in
his life and cries like a child while tell
ing her of it.
OTHEB TITES.
There are just a few Joes in this world
not too many.
Clarence Harney tells his wire about
it as soon as he gets home. He is sure
be knew the infernal job woulcurt hold
out long anyhow. Plenty more, though
vou just have to have a little gall; and
next day Clarence has another job. A
little less pay. to be sure, "but then," he
argues, "it's only for a week or so IH
strike a better one the first thing you
know. You don't down me not this
year."
Jim Burton, the clerk, loses his job.
He pitches into the whole family and
tells them that there must be no more
money spent for anything at alL "Un
derstand? The goodness only knows
when von will get any more from me, so
make this last as long as it will." He
goes down town, gets a job, tells them
at home that he has not yet touna one,
and so spends the entire pay for two
weeks on himself, the while ostensibly
searching for work, and making the home
ones pinch and worry with the lessening
cash. Then at the critical moment he
suddenly "finds work," and tells them
he had to take it at seven dollars a week
or nothing, when he really receives
twelve. Jjmmie's friends down town
call him "smooth."
Harris Russell, who writes shorthand,
loses a job because he is a bad speller.
He studies up 'on his spelling, answers
advertisements, gets a few encouraging
replies, and after moving to a cheaper
room once and going it for a week on a
diet of crackers and milk occasionally
a nickel's worth of hot waffles he gets
another place at one dollar a week more
salary, and determines that he will not
flounder on the same old reef a second
time. Harris is an average boy a typ
ical case.
Emmons Holman, bookkeeper, learns
that he is to be dispensed with soon, so
very dignifiedly "resigns." He tells' his
friends that the firm bucked against it
awfully, bnt that they couldn't keep
him that they offered shorter hours and
a bis raise, but that it was all no good.
He knew what he was about It is safe
to admit that he did.
Ernest Jenkins is discharged. No
friends. Can tret no work. Starves
three days. - The river. New York
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A STORY FROM PARIS.
AN ' INTERESTING ROMANCE OF A
THOUGHTLESS PAINTER.
The Willow Who Came to Dispossess the
Negligent 'Artist Staid to Aeeept His
Love, and Later His Hand and Heart.
A Little Child JLed Them. .
There is a friend of mine, a painter,
who has all the talents and no talent of
'his own. He would copy or imitate a
Greuze or a Watteau to perfection. A
Diaz by him only wants the signature,
which an unscrupulous dealer does not
hesitate to forge. My friend, whom we
will call Durand, is an excellent man,
industrious and clever, but too negligent
to take the initiative in anything, even
in painting. Well, he had given notice
to quit his apartment in July, on the
fifteenth day of the month, at noon, ac
cording to the customs of the country.
He had, however, been so absorbed in
his painting that he had forgotten to re
tain a wagon to take away his furniture,
and when he did at last concern himself
about the matter he only succeeded in
securing one for the end of the day. But
at noon precisely, just as he was putting
the finishing . touches to a copy of
Greuze's famous "Cruche-Cassee," there
came an imperious knock at the door.
It was the new tenant, escorted by her
furniture. She was furious to find that
Durand was "dawdling over bis paint
brushes," while all her furniture was
out in the street exposed to the gaze of
indiscreet passersby. She even threat
ened to send for the police in order to
bring Durand to a sense of his duties as
an outgoing tenant
Durand, like many painters, thought
the sea more charming than ever when
agitated by a storm, and concluded that
his fair visitor was rendered more beau
tiful by her anger. She was about
twenty-five years of age. She had dark
hair and blue eyes, a fine, supple figure,
and her pretty nostrils were slightly
dilated by her emotion. She was ac
companied by a little girl of six years
of age a little golden haired fairy.
"Whatr continued the irate lady, "yon
are not going away until 5 o'clock? It
is absurd! What am I to do with my
furniture? Where is the proprietor? I
must see the proprietor!" It was im
possible to gratify her last wish. The
concierge alone was available, but the
newcomer was so terrible, so aggressive
and so threatening that Cerberus was
tamed and ran away, leaving his broom
behind him.
INFLUENCE OF A CHILD.
Durand ought, according to his sys
tem of imitation, to have become wrath
ful, too, but his adversary was a pretty
woman, so he sought an ally. The lit
tle eirl was playing with a shepherdess
in porcelain de Saxe that adorned one
end of the chimney piece. - "Should you
like it?" "Oh, yes; it is so pretty!"
"Take it." "Jeanne, said the mother,
"1 forbid vou to accept anything." "If
it were only to please her," replied
Durand, "I could understand your pro
hibition, but it is an economy for me.
I shall have so much less to move."
Women are ready laughers. The lady
fixed her eyes on the wall in order to
keen her countenance. "Your name is
Jeanne?" said the painter. "Yes," an
swered the child. "And your papa
where is he?" "He died two years ago.'
"And mamma is a widow?" "Yes, mon-
sioiir.
Then t.nrninsr to the ladv. Durand
apologized for his sins, told her thai ne
had cleared one room and that he would
heln her eet her furniture in.
Soon the furniture began to find its
place the wardrobe, tne mirror, me
hnnlrratKA. "Oh. madame. without know
ing yon, as I look at these books I can
read your mind. JBalzac, Jingo, Liamar
tina" "Ta. tn.. ta " cried the irate
lady, "you would have done better to
clear out before noon than to be trying
tostndvmv character!" "I am work
ing all the time, m aflame. Look! 1
have put that console there here the
statue of the Virtnn this little mirror
opposite the window." "Oh, it is no
use; yon cannot make peace with me:
WRATH TURNED TO LOVE.
There was an interval of twenty min
ntes, during which the lady stood at the
wmdow. Lrarana naa remainea m ma
with the child. "Are thev com
ing today or tomorrow your men?" she
asked angrily as sue came d&ck into ine
Twvm- bnt. rIib stormed in the middle.
Jeanne, motionless and smiling, was
seated on a chair anu uurana was pamt-
irtr her nnrrrait. "Mamma." said the
little one suddenly, "1 am hungry. Yon
have some wine ana a paie m Dig
basket. "Gome, then, and DreaKiast on
tha rmJcrmv." murmured the mother.
Durand was left alone ' to finish his
slretch. There was a silence of ten min-
nteit. Then the child returned timidly
"Mamma has something to asg you."
"What?" "She does not dare." "She
wants ta turn me out?" "No." "What
then?" "Mamma would like to know if
yon if yon would like a piece of pate."
Thin hannened on Julv 15. and whdn
the concierge arrived, all trembling, to
announce that the men naa at lasi come
tn remnva Ihrrand's furniture, he found
him sitting on the balcony at table with
the mother and dandling xne cnna on
his knees.
MiKfnrttrne8. however, never come
alone. The wagon was too small. It
would not hold an uurana s uungs ai
rami "Trfve vour palette, your easel
and your pictures," said Jeanne; "I will
take care of them, and then you will
y. nblicmrl tn come back aeain and
finish my picture." He left them. He
only came into possession oi mem uu
Jan is. whan ha broueht all his fur
niture back into his own room. This
time, however, there was no difficulty
about the outgoing tenant, for she had
meanwhile become Durand's wife, and
the two households were merged into
one. Paris Cor. Philadelphia uuiieim.
Aiwi Ktlll We Have Dyspepsia.
Scientists assure us that upward of
5,000,000 minute glands are constantly
at work in our stomachs secreting gas
tric jnice. New York journal.
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