THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY. JUNE 12, 1897
The Weekly Gtooniele.
tHI DALLES.
OttEGON
PERSONAL. MENTION.
Wednesday.
Hagb Chrisman ia in from his ranch
at Bigelow, Or.
"the father and mother of the Johnston
. Bros, of Dafur and Chaa. Johnston of
. this city arrived from Canada last night.
Mian Nellie Batter, who has been ail
ing for a short time, yesterday developed
symptoms of typhoid fever, and on the
recommendation of Dr. Sntherland, she
was this morning taken to the Cood
Samaritan hospital at Portland for
treatment, going down on the 8 :30 train
Thursday.
Mrs. W. C. -Curtis went to Portland
this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Porter of Denver are
in the city visiting his brother, Lewis
.rorter.
Mr. David Garrison, who has been
very ill of pneumonia, is now able to be
oat, and called at this omce tnis morn
ing.
Miss Elizabeth Packard arrived on
last night's train from Oakland, Oal.
and is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Eehel
man.
MisB E. Loni8e Riddell, who has been
' attending the grand lodge. I. O. G. X
at Portlaud for several days, returned on
the Regulator last evening.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Sichellast nightcame
in from Prineville. where tbey have re
sided for several years, and went to Port
land this morning. The farm of feicbel
A Co. is closing out its business in Crook
county and Mr. and Mrs. Sichel expect
to remain permanantly is rortiana.
Friday.
Mr. W. R. West of Hood River is in
the city on a business visit.
Miss Nell Micbell came down from
Columbus this morning, and will leave
for Astoria tomorrow, where she will
visit her sister, Mrs. B. D. Johnson, be
fore taking her vacation at uearhart.
George A. Young and eon, Fred, the
sheepmen from the Kidgeway neighbor
hood, arrived in the city Wednesday
evening. They have finished shearing
and have, in round numbers, 70,000
pounds of wool.
MABK1EI).
At the Umatilla Houbb parlors, Tues
day evening, June 8th, Mr. D. A. Tur
ner to Mrs. Laura E. Frost, Rev. J. H
Wood performing the ceremony.
The groom is one of Hood River's
most thrifty farmers, . whose genial diS'
position and sterling character should
make any woman happy, and the bride,
while only residing a few years at Hood
River, is a universal favorite. We con
gratolate each of them on their happy
choice.
MARRIED.
At the home of the bride's parents,
Jane 7, 1897, by Elder B. F. Bonney,
Mr. James Davidson of Wamic, Oregon,
to Miss idattie Morris of victor, Oregon.
BORN.
In this city, Thursday, June 10th, to
Mr. and Mrs. K. U. Webber, a son.
Advertised Letters.
Following is the list of letters remain
ing in the poatoffice at The Dalles on
called for June 11, 1897. Persons call
ing for the same will give date on which
they were advertised :
Amen, Alonzo Baxter, W F
Bates, W F Blakely, Martin
Bennett, B I Crick, Charles
. Dailv, John J Davidson, A
Day," Miss Belle (2) Dicker, E C
Douglas, Albert Gage, A W
Gilgenhagen, Miss Gwynn, Rev Rhys
f Anna Jackson, Mrs H B
Jones, W J . Johnson, Carl
Morgan, Dan Montes, Joe
McCoy, Miss Maud Monis, Mies L D
. Pruyne, I B Sbearls, Mrs George
Smith, O S Thomas, Henry
Turner, Albert W Warfield, J M D
Wilkie, J B
Wilson, Mrs Mary
Williams, Mrs
Williams, Amanda
J. A. Ckossbh, P. H.
New Way to Settle Quarrel.
After a -San Diego man got a divorce
from bis wife the other day be went
home and found her there. She asked
him to sit down to dinner, after which
she asked him how he liked the new ar
rangement. "First rate," he replied,
"but I can't understand it." "Oh,
that's all right," she said; "we can live
this 'way ' in contentment. The other
way we quarrel. Now, then,. suppose
yoa retain me as housekeeper? Twenty
dollars per month and board is all I
ask." This struck the ex-husband forc
ibly, and the bargain was closed on the
spot. The couple have not had a sign of
trouble since, although they were in hot
water for thirty-two years, fretting un
der the marital yoke. They dare not
quarrel much now, for fear one will
leave the other in the larch. He must
have his meals cooked and she must
have a place to stay. Together they are
happy. now, and the bargain promises
to last to the end.
Saturday Afternoon a Legal Holiday.
It- is a fact not generally known that
under a new law of the state the legal
Sunday in Washington begins at 12
o'clock noon Saturday. The law passed
the senate March 10th, passed the house
March 11th and was approved by the
governor March 16th. It is as follows :
"An act relating to negotiable paper :
Be it enacted by the legislature of the
state of Washington : Section 1. That
as to all bills notes, drafts, checks and
other negotiable paper, the time inter
vening between Saturday at 12 o'clock
noon and Sunday at 12 . o'clock mid
night, be and the same is hereby de
clared to be a legal holiday." Walla
Walla Statesman.'
EXCLUSION OF AMERICAN BEEF.
Protest Against it to Be Made to
European Government.
Washington, June 8 The adminis
tration has outlined an important policy
to end, if possible, the controversies be
tween this government and Great
Britain, Germany and Belgium, regard'
ing the exclnsion of American cattle and
dressed beef.
This policy contemplates the submis-
sion of an earnest ioint protest by the
diplomatic representatives of the United
States at London, Berlin, Paris , and
Brussels, aiming at the revocation of
the discriminatory regulations1 which
these nations have imposed on Amer
ican cattle and beef. Before their de
parture to their respective posts,' Am
bassadors Hay, Porter and White re
ceived instructions to confer with each
other and with Bellamy Storr, the new
minister to Brussels, for the purpose of
taking action in the matter.
Mr. Storr was at the state department
yesterday receiving his final instructions
before he sails on Wednesday next for
his post in Belgium. Mr. Storr's in
structions contemplate the recommence
ment of negotiations with the Belgian
government, with a view to securing a
removal of restrictions now imposed up
on American cattle and beef.
In case the protests made by the fonr
diplomats'named are not effective, re
taliatory measures may be adopted by
the United States in the cases of all the
governments named.
A Good Run and Fine Fish.
A dispatch
from Astoria Monday,
gays :
The last week has seen a radical
change for the better in the run of
salmon. Today the deliveries of fish
have been remarkably large, even for
this time of the year. The canneries
are all running at fall capacity. Not
only are the fish nnnsoaly numerous,
bat the rnn as to quality is extraordi
narily fine. As an example, a fisherman
this morning, after a few hours' work,
turned into one of the lower town can
neries thirty cbiaook salmon, which
averaged by actual weight more than
fifty pan n da apiece.
Accident at Baker.
R. L. Lincoln, one of the La Grande
running team, met with a Eerioss acci
dent about 5 o'clock yeeterday afternoon.
With his team he was practicing on the
track, the team being tangled np at
the start-off, and Mr. Lincoln was
thrown to the ground, the cart passing
over him. His left ear was nearly sev
ered and his nose was broken. He was
pot into good surgical bands, and it is
hoped by all the firemen that the inju
ries will be so carefully attended to that
the La Grande team will not be handi
capped in the races by the absence of
one of its best men. Democrat.
A LITTLE LOVE STORY.
Beady Yf it of a Young Woman Loosen
the Tongue of a Modest Peer.
Here is a story of love and courtship,
told by Walter Besant in the London
Queen. There was a young lover who
was a compound very rare of high
rank and (Treat abilities, with sweet
ness, great modesty and shyness. Most
noble lords know their own value, and
behave accordingly. This noble lord,
however, was modest. He thought
himself so far so very far below the
worth -of tho young lady whom he
loved that he was afraid to sneak
Some women do not understand this
modesty. Believe me, ladies, 'tis a
sure and certain sign of a noble char
acter, because only a lofty soul can
conceive the existence of a goddess;
we measure others, you see, by our
selves. It is also a sure sign of love,
because such a man can only love a
woman whom he deeply respects. En
courage this modesty, my daughters:
above all, do not laugh at it. This
young man, therefore, was afraid to
speak, and the delay, which is at first,
am tola, pleasing and exciting, be
gan to grow monotonous.
One day they were playing cards for
money; after the fashion of their gen
eration. The lady won; the loser naid.
'.'It is," he raid, "half a crown. I
wish, indeed, it were a crown."
'At least," replied the lady, "your
lordship can give me a coronet."
And behold a miracle! For his
tongue was loosened, and his eyes
glowed and Lis lips spake. They lived
happy, one may euid, though it is an
unusual ending to a story, ever after
ward. WOMEN AS SHOEBLACKS.
They Are Numerous In France and Some
i y. Have Married Rich Customers.
& A custom is rapidly gaining ground
in France, and especially in 'Toulon
and certain other towns, which, it may
safely be prophesied, will not find.
much imitation in this country. This
is the employment of women as street
shoeblacks.
The French women shoeblacks are
most coquettishly gotten up, and as to
their caps and frills have somewhat
the appearance of hospital nurses, and
it is surprising that though their occu
pation is a tolerably dirty one, they al
ways seem clean and tidy; some of
them are doing the polishing in gaunt
let gloves.
In the towns in which they are em
ployed they certainly are a success pe
cuniarily, especially where English
and American visitors, who generally
seem to treat the whole affair as a
good joke, are numerous.
It is said that one reason for the oc
cupation being a popular one among
women of a certain grade in life is that
many of the fair polishers have mar
ried opulent customers who have been
impressed by their shining qualities.'
r ABOUT THE "SLOPPER."
HI Beaearene In the Garbage Recep
tacles and HI Find.
That man is a alopper," remarked a
police officer to a Washington Star
writer a few mornings since, "and he
and his class give ua any amount of
trouble. If he stole we could reach
him by law, but as he only finds we can
not easily reach him." In further ex
planation he said: "A slopper is a man
who searches through the garbage cans
in the alleys in the rear of hotels, board
ing houses and private houses. Some
search for spoons, knives and fork
that are thrown into the garbage recep
tacles' by careless servants, for it is a
fact that there are more silver spoons
and knives and forks thrown away
with the garbage than are stolen by
servants, though the contrary ia gen
erally believed. The slopper is gener
ally an hour or so ahead of the garbage
collector and he is often more regular
and careful in his rounds than the gar
bage man.
'By industry we thrive,' as the line
in the copy-books used to contain, and
by industry on. a good west end route,
especially one which takes in a num
ber of boarding houses or hotels, a slop
per can find enough tableware to pay
tho expenses of hie tour. Often he
makes a rich find. Very frequently he
has permission to 'slop' the can from
the owners of the house themselves, for
he tells them he is on the lookout for
stray pieces of meat, etc., which he sells
to those who have dogs to feed. Some
stoppers are honest enough to return
any silverware they may find for the
dog-meat privilege, but it is a terrible
temptation to many and one they can
not or do not at times withstand.
THE "WAGO OWANHAN."
A Mysterious Light That Hangs la .
West Virginia Canyon.
An old-time West Virginia wonder
is again causing quite a discussion
among the reading and thinking peo
ple of Wyoming and adjoining coun
ties. The "wonder" referred to is the
mysterious light which has been known
since times almost prehistoric as the
"Wag Owanhan."
This phenomenal light, says the St.
Louis Republic, appears to emanate
irom a certain spot on the precipitous
sides of the great Pat Wess canyon.
It casts its ghostly sheen across the
waters of the river, lighting the sur
roundings not with a "sickly , pale,
white light," but with a phosphorescent
glow of sufficient brightness to make
the reading of a newspaper or a book
possible on the darkest night. Accord
ing to some investigators of the "Wago
Owanhan" the light does not emanate
from any spot on the canyon's side, but
hangs out over the river, like a luminous
cloud or fog. This appears to have been
the case at the time when Prof. Tohlure
and Mr. I. E. Christian the latter of
Oceana, W. Va. visited the spot. On
the 15th and 16th of last February an
expedition, headed by Mr. Christian,
again visited the "Wago Owanhan."
Snow was falling rapidly at the time,
and Mr. Christian says that every flake,
when it reached a height of about 200
feet above the water, "would blare out
with dazzling brightness" and remain
luminous until it reached the surface.
A scientific investigation! of the phe
nomenon will be made.
SETTLED
IN NOVA
SCOTIA.
Colonial
Americans Who Early
Made
Their Homes In Canada.
Many loyalists, particularly from
New England, had fled to Nova Scotia ;
riUre mc cio; ui iue war, una se ,
on the spot where the city of St. John
now stands. This gave one objective
point, at any rate, - says MacmiUan's
Magazine, to the much larger band of
exiles who at the peace were forced to
seek new homes at short notice; and
in a single year the new settlements
grew to some 13,000 souls. Men of all
classes flocked there, officers and sol
diers, clergymen and lawyers, farmers,
mechanics and merchants. They were
naturally much above the average of
ordinary emigrants, both in character,
education and intelligence; but all, or
nearly all, were equally destitute and
forced to begin the battle of life afresh,
A year later New Brunswick was sep
arated from Nova Scotia, endowed with
a council and home assembly, and the
capital moved to the present site at
Fredencton.
The first council included many well-
known New England names, such as
Putnam, Winslow, Allen and Willard.
It included, also, a late judge of the
supreme court of New York, another
distinguished lawyer of that colony,
and several officers of the loyal regi
ments. Both the New York and the
Virginia branch of the Robinsons, one
of the wealthiest and most influential
families in colonial America, were here
represented, and to this day are conspic
uous in upper Canada.
Boeklen's armci salve.
The best salve in the worid for cuts,
braises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fevei
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required
It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For sale by Blakeley and
Houghton, druggists.
This I Tour Opportunity,
On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps,
a generous sample will be mailed of the
most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure
f Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demon
strate the great merits of the remedy.
ELY BROTHERS,
56 Warren St, New York City.
Hev. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls, Mont,
recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. I
can emphasize his statement, "It is a posi
tive cure for catarrh if used as directed."
Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres.
Church, Helena, Mont
Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
cure for catarrh and contains no mercury
nor any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents.
A VERY OLD TUB.
Roman Backet That Ttates Back Sixteen.
Hundred Years.
My thoughts, when I was at the ruins
of Silchester recently, were that hun
dreds- of antiquarians all over the coun
try would have given gold to anyone
who should have told them of the great
"find" that was there and then to be
safely brought to hand, says a letter in
London Truth. A friend and myself
strolled over from Aldermaston to view
the ruins and as many of the "finds." as
were still to be seen. Mr. Davis, F. S. A.,
at present superintending 'the opera
tions, -explained to us how, when dig
ging out an old well, he made the lucky
discovery of a tunnel which conducted
him to an ancient gate, the existence of
which had not been before suspected
A windlass had been fitted up over
well 18 feet deep, and men were digging
out pailfuls of earth which were being
diligently hauled up. For two weeks
the work at this point had been going
on, and within the last week it had been
discovered that this was an old Roman
tub-well. , The wood seemed somewhat
rotten, as might be expected after 1,600
years, eo that the raising of the tub
caused the greatest anxiety. The tub
had been ingeniously fitted by Mr,
Davis with two wooden shelves running
all round it one at the top and the
other , at the bottom, both of which
served to protect it from any strain dur
ing the preparation for hoisting it, and
also relieved the tub of its own weight
during the process of hoisting. After
one unsuccessful attempt to bring it up,
during which a small portion of it was
knocked off, it was triumphantly raised
to light in a comparatively perfect
state of preservation. We expect that
x the tub will shortly be on view at the
Reading museum, where ' there is al
ready a beautiful collection of Silches
ter relics.
RED TURTLES.
They Live and Breed In a Spring; Whose
Temperature I 828 Degrees. v
lhat portion of southern, or lower
California called Hell's Half-Acre ap
pears to be situated directly over
substratum of fire, which causes the
mud and water to boil as if in a caldron.
aays the L Louis Republic. At one
place on the Half-Acre there are over
100 boiling springs and hot mud geysers
on a plat of ground that is not of great
er extent than a common city square.
The chief spring in this queer aggre
gation of boiling end spouting jets of
mud and water is called the fountain
of the Boiled- Turtles on account of its
curious habit of occasionally ejecting
numbers of small red turtles. The
temperature of this spring is 226 de
grees, 14 degrees hightr than the tem
perature required to boil water un
der ordinary atmospheric pressure
Notwithstanding the fact that the tem
perature is sufficient to boil meat per
fectly within a few minutes, the small
red turtles spoken of live and .breed
there just as the ordinary variety does
in waters of common lakes, rivers add
other streams. The spring is called the
fountain of Boiled Turtles because the
queer, hard-shelled creatures of being
cooked perfectly done.
SURE CURE FOR SHIPWRECK.
What a Sunday School Pupil Would Do to
Calm the Ocean.
A certain young woman on the North
aide teaches a class in a mission Sunday
school. She had a difficult task, says,
the Chicago Times-Herald, imparting
i scraps of religious instruction to her
young charges and often amusing an
Rwpra are urJCOr,seiouslv returned to
questions which she asks. On one oc
casion she asked her pupils:
"What do the higk priests do?"
And received the reply:
"They burned insects before the peo
ple," by which the youngster, of course,
meant incense.
But one of the funniest experiences,
which well shows the queer ideas which
the children receive in their lessons,
was given when, after a discussion of
shipwreck which followed a lesson
three or four weeks previously on the
well-known story of Jonah and the
whale, she happened to ask:
"Suppose a big storm arose at sea and
it looked as though you were going to
be drowned, what would you do?
"I would throw a man overboard for a
whale to swallow," was the reply.
An Indian's Tlcket-of-Leave.
When Young Chief, a prominent
member of the Utamatilla tribe, in
Oregon, goes away for his annual vaca
tion, he. is granted the freedom of the
state by the following notice to whom
it may concern: "Young Chief has per
mission to visit Wallows and surround
ing country, with various other In
dians, to be away 60 days. He is a good,
law-abiding man, and very friendly to
ward whites. If any of his crowd are
boisterous or violate any law, if report
ed to me, I will have the matter recti
fied. Any favor shown him will be ap
preciated. He respects the whites and
asks that they resj-ct Kim."
The Mew Time Card.
The O. R. & N. has made another
change in its time table, which went into
effect June 1st. It is as follows : No. 1,
west-bound, arrives 3:55 a. m. and de
parts at 4; No. 3, west-bound, arrives
8:25, departs 8:30; No. 2, east-bound,
arrives 1 a. m., departs 1:05; No. 4,
east-bound, arrives 5:55 evening, de
parts at 6.. All trains except No. 4 stop
at Umatilla House. Train No. 1 now
runs via Walla Walla.
A special rate of $3 for round trip
tickets to Portland, with two days'
limit, has been made, going into effect
today. ' These tickets are also good going
Saturday and returning Monday.
The company Las also made the very
low rate of $5 firet-claes and $2.50 sec
ond-class from Portland to San Fran
cisco, which rate includes berth and
meals.
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ACROSS THE SEA.
The
Deserted Wife Won the
Race by
Fonr Honrs.
A race across 2,000 miles of water for
a wife was recently ended at Ellis
Island. The race was between Mrs.
Franz- Molineaux, a deserted wife, and
a young girl. Bertha Neibling, the hus
band's sweetheart.
The wife won the race by four hours
and, incidentally, the erring husband.
, Molincaux had been wealthy in Ber
lin. He had married the daughter of a
rich grain merchant. When he failed
in business he quarreled with his wife,
for she made some remark about his
poverty which angered him. He left
her, saying that he would go to Amer
ica and begin life over again. They
were proud and she permitted him.to go
alone, although in her heart she loved
him. .
The man came over here and by hard
work established himself and was in re
ceipt of a good salary. He thought
sometimes of the woman over in Berlin.
She was living with her wealthy father,
who was very fond of her. In a spirit of
pique the husband sent across the sea
for another woman to share the home
he had made here at 1860 Lexington
avenue.
Mrs. Molineaux heard of the other
woman and embarked in all haste on
the steamer Lahn. bound for New York.
The other one, Bertha Neibling, was a
steerage passenger on the Venetia from
Hamburg. The Venetia sailed first,
yet the fast steamer Lahn beat her into
port by four hours, with Mrs. Molineaux
in the first cabin.
She had little difficulty in interesting
the authorities in her case. Detective
Peter Groden found her husband and in
formed him that a woman was at Eilis
Island waiting to see him. Molineaux
was taken there and the commissioner
of immigration asked some very search
ing questions. Then he dismissed him
to another room and talked to Mrs. Mol
ineaux. Neither husband nor wife knew
of the presence of the other on the
island.
Thev were brought .into the same
room. The wife at the sight of her hus
band threw her arms around his neck
and fainted.
She recovered opportunely and told
him how cruelly she had misunuiT
stood him and that she would willingly
share povertv and a crust of bread with
him.
No man could resist talk like that.
Molineaux kissed her on the forehead
and vowed he, would be true to her to
the end of time. So they went to I860
Lexington avenue together, where they
will dwell.
The other woman? The story is prac-
ticallv finished as far as she is con
cerned. The. immigration authorities
came to the conclusion that as she had
no friends here now and was likely to be
come a public charge the best thing
they could do would be to send her back
to Germany. Chicago Record.
TOO LATE.
The Fortune
Which Came at Laet to
Wasted Life. .
Nothing is more pathetic in this world
than the fate which brings the fulfill
ment of ardent hopes only "when, the
grasshopper has becore a burden and
desire hath failed." Such a commervtary
on the vanity of human anticipations
occurred not long ago to one of the
toilers of Babylon, who, longing be
yond everything for the good things
6f this world, had, like Tantalus, reached
out ever in vain for the cakes and ale
of existence. They always seemed just
beyond hds girasp, until finally they
were within touch, when they dropped
from the nerveless, tired fingers that
were too weak to hold them.
Born to expectations which were
never realized, and rendered discontent
ed thereby with her contrasted sur
roundings, Miss A -'s life was one long.
unskillful desire. Instead of making
the best of the present, she spent her
time continually in making plans for
the future. Everything was sacrificed
to the elusive hope of the possible riches
which would, she imagined, once ob
tained, make life so delightful and de
sirable. She might have been a happy
wife and mother and a useful woman
in her generation; if it had not been
for the mirage of wealth, ever before
her longing eyes a dream which made
her commonplace surroundings insup
portable.
So the years, wore on; youth and
beauty took flight, friends grew fewer
and fewer, until in the midst of a joy
less and purposeless middle age Miss
A fell ill with a long, incurable ill-
Then, and then only, when the
world, as far as she was concerned,
had narrowed itself down. to the con
fines of a small room, and even that
grew dimmer and more unreal day by
day, came the consummation, of ber
hopes. An aged relative died and left
her the fortune for which she had so
longed.
Oh, take them away! she cried.
with- exceeding bitterness, .when they
brought her the papers that represent
ed so much and yet so little for truly
man walketh in a vain shadow and
disquieteth himself in vain; he heapeth
up riches and cannot tell who shall
gather them." N. Y. Tribune.
Larg;e and Small Soldlers-
The emperor of Germany has jus!
placed upon the wall of his study a
large photograph of which he is very
proud. It is a portrait, half life size, of
the biggest and the smallest ' soldier of
the ' Prussian army standing side by
side. The former is Private Pritzchan,
of the first regiment of the Prussian
guard. Ho stands C feet 7J inches in
his boots, and when he presented him
seljt as Dusseldorf for examination a
special apparatus had to be provided
with which to take his waist measure.
His breadth is in proper proportion to
his height The smallest soldier is the
hereditary prince. The picture is a
unique one, showing a veritable giant,
quite equal to any that figure in
Grimm's Tales," or other' books of
fables, and by his side a soldierly Lilli
putian. . . . i
LIFE IN GREAT CITIES
It Is Less Enervating Than That In
. - Isolated Communities.
And as to the tendency of the growth
of great cities to enerva te nations, there
is no proof of it at all, unless we identi
fy the life of great cities with the pas
Bion for idleness and pleasure and self
indulgence which sometimes, but by
no means universally, accompanies
their growth, says the London Spec
tator. When you get a large proletari
at, living, as that of ancient Rome and
possibly of Nineveh and Babylon, did,
on the alms of the rich "d powerful,
then no doubt you have the conditions
of a thoroughly nnnatual and unhealthy
life, and no one can wonder at the
rapid decoy of such cities and of the
nations which gloried in them. But
where the honest working class far out
number the proletariat, where the
middle classes of distributors and man
ufacturers and professional mon are la
borious and energetic, and even the
class that lives on its accumulated
wealth contains a considerable sprick- '
ling of serious and disinterested work
ers, we do not believe that there is the
smallest evidence of any greater danger
in the life of the agricultural village or
the pastoral tribe. Indeed, we should!
regard Olive Schrciner's picture of the
life of the modern Boers as indicating
a. condition of things more prolific of
morbid elements, with its almost com
plete absence of any stirring or active
intelligence, than any kind of modern;
life that is honestly laborious at all.
The Boer life is too sleepy, too desti
tute of stirring thought or effort, to
be altogether natural. It needs at least
the old element of danger and neces
sary vigilance to render it even bracing.
A GREAT DINNER.
Because Enjoyed 'by a Great Quartette-
They Are Still Alive.
The greatest dinner that I ever sat
Jown to, says Watterson in the Courier
lournal, consisted of a leg of mutton,
dressed with mustard, a bit of hot
irheat bread; and some fresh butter,
with half a jug of fine whisky to wash
it down. It was in front of New Hope
:hurch in the Bumnier of '64. Soma
ane had sent Eustis b. leg of mutton.
Some cne had sent Yeatman a large
pill box of butter. Bragg, Gen. Polk's
;ook, had some flour. Eustis and Yeat
man invited Gov. Harris and myself,
rhe governor happened to have a key
which fitted Gen. Polk's medicine case,
ill of us united in making the robbery
f a vial of Irish whisky, the general
himself being absent, and that was the
Sinner! Glorious dinner!
Please God, the quartette still survive
to tell the tale, which they do when
ever ihey meet and can get an audi
ence. Eustis is in Paris, ambassador:
the same cool, self-possessed man in di
plomacy he used to be under fire; able,
brave and lazy. Harris touching the
eighties is the dashing, brilliant, im
petuous boy he was 32 years ago and,
silver or gold, or neither, I look to
ward him as I write! Yeatman, obtru
sive only in his courage on the battle
field, lives the life of cultivated leisure
and unambitious rusticity which de
lighted him most when he was both
younger and richer than he is, though
be still has his ancestral acres.
That was a dinner.
When my little girl was one month old, she
had a scab form on lier face. It kept spread
ing until she was completely covered from
head to foot. Then she had boils. She had
forty on her head at one time, and more on her
body. When six months old she did not weigh
seven pounds, a ound and a half less than at
birth. Then her skin started to dry up and
fot so bad shecould not shut her eyes to sleep,
ut lay with them half open. About thia
time, I started luting Ccticuba Remedies,
and in one month the tea completely cured.
The doctor and drug bills were over oe hun
dred dollar, the cmcritA bill was cot more
than flee dollar. My child is now strong,
healthy, and large as any child of her age (see
photo.), and it is all owing to Ctmcu&A.
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jrits. ;eo. h. tucker. Jr.,
i32 Walker St., Milwaukee, Yf is.
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with Ccticvra Soap, gentle applications of Cu
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" In a single
Administrator's Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the County Court
of the State of Oregon for Wasco County, by an
order dated the 3d day of April, 1897. duly ap
pointed the undersigned administrator of the
estate of Andrew V. Anderson, deceased. All '
nersons having claims against said estate are .
hereby required to present the same, properly
verified, to the undersigned at French St Co.'s
bunk in Dalles City, Oregon, within six months
from the date hereof.
Dalles City, Oregon, May 19, 1897.
my22-li . C. HOSTETLER,
Administrator.
TAKEN UP. .
Came to my place about a year ago
last April, a red steer, 3 years old past ;
little white in right flank; marked two
underbits in right ear; brand is almost
nndiscernible, bat looks something like
an A. Owner can have same by paying
charges and advertising.
Williabd Taylor,
j2 lmw 15-Mile creek, Dafur P. O:
Mm