THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY. JULY 7. 1897. The Weekly Ghroniele. COD-NTT OFFICIALS. Cronty Judge.....! Robt. Mays Sheriff. T.J. Driver Clerk .- A M. Kelsav Treasurer C. L. Phillips , . , ia.s. mowers Commissioners Jd. 8. Kimsev Assessor W. H. Whipple Bnrveyor J. B. uoit Superintendent of Public Schools. . C. L. Gilbert Coroner w. it. Butts STATIC OFFICIALS. ajvernoi W. P. Lord Becretarv of State H R Kincaid Treasurer .'. Phillip Metschan Bupt. of Public Instruction li. M. irwiu Attornev-General C. M. Idleman u . 1G. W. McBride ' - )J. H. Mitchell ' (B Hermann juusioniiicii )W P Ellis 3Ute Printer ....... .".i. . W. H. Leeds Weekly Clnbbinr Bates. Chronicle and Oregonian $2 25 Chronicle and Examiner 2 25 rv..lnnH Tribune 1 75 World 2 00 NO MIRACLE ABOUT IT. The fortunes of men lie in intelli gent use of their opportunities. So it ever Las been; so it ever will be. In a few cases, such as discovery of mines or lucky speculation, fortunes are realized ; but in the cases of the great majority the element of chance cannot be counted on. and thev who are found o-ettin.o- nn in the world ! will be those who work with intelli gent and painstaking endeavor, hus band their resources, use-their ac cumulations with judgment, and make careful and sound calculation the basis of all their action. Such a course will bring some measure of success to every man who pursues it. Fortune, pursued on such principles, is not partial even to color. The Atlantic Constitution has an account of a negro in Georgia Barton F. Powell, who has had the ' sense to pursue the old-fashioned way to prosperity, and has reached if lie started in with running errands for the stores at Atlanta, and his energy ' and fidelity secured him constant em ploy ment. Then he had the knack and the purpose of holding on to his monej'. After a while he got work on a dredge-boat, where his intelli gent interest in the work and his fidelity to the requirements of the ser vice again stood him in good stead, At the age of 20 lie was the owner of 12000, which he invested in 500 ' Acres of pine land in Baker' county , "The white man from whom he bought it," says the Constitution, "committed the usual mistake, and . most likely his $2000 took wings long ago, while the negro got the - 500 acres, which are today worth three times the money. The new . owner put ten men to work, got the land in order, planted cottOD, corn and sugar cane, and cleared the first year $2500. He has continued to add to his landed possessions, paying spot cash for every farm purchased, and is now the owner of 2100 acres of land, from which he markets 400 bales of cotton annually. Besides his success on the farm, he has de veloped the country supply store idea, and thus rakes in thousands of dollars a year. He also owns a com fortable home in Bainbridge. His profits last year were over $8000." There Is no miracle in this kind of thing. The man who has done it in this case is 32 years of age, and has been handicapped by his color and by the prejudice felt against his race; yet by the sheer force of an in telligent will he has accomplished these results. This is the way the man reasoned when a speculator sought to buy his possessions by offer ing a large cash sum : "I couldn't make as good use of money as I can of my land. You see, you are always getting principal as well as interest back from your land, and after you get it all back the land still remains, more valuable than it was at first. In money you can only get the interest, and the principal is always likely to disappear. Every other kind of property wears away, but constant use improves land. There is . no such thing as wearing out land. It must be kept at work, but rested by different crops. It is like resting from walk ing by running a little. You never sit down, because if you do you will get stiff and can't pick up your speed." His is a career that illustrates what might be called Poor Richard's sense, which is much too scarce just now in every part of the country. It is well said, indeed, that lit is persons who ignore the doctrines of Poor Richard that are tound among the pessimists and swell ther&nk of discontented, the shiftless and the dependent classes." Oregonian. DESTITUTE OF MANLY INSTINCT According to reports of finances of the Stowe heirs, the son of the fam ous authoress of "U-cle Tom's Cabin" is about to " dispossess his twin sisters elderly women, and un married of the old homestead, where they jointly cared for their mother during many 3-ears of inva lidism, and where she died last year. . The neglect of Mrs. Stowe to sign the codicil to her will bequeathing the homestead to ber daughters fur nishes, it is said, their brother with the legal risht to order it sold and the proceeds divided. The public will be loath to believe that Mrs. Stowe gave to the world a man so utterly destitute of the manly in stincts of reverence for his mother's wishes and consideration for his sis ters' needs as is implied in this re port. For years the companions, housekeepers and nurses of their mother, while their brother was out in the world making a name and a position for himself, it is but justj that the little saved from the wreck of the mothers endeavor should have Been bestowed upon these duti ful caretakers of her age. "In the books we have read", men have as signed willingly and gratefully such share of a small estate devised to them under such circumstances to the self-denying women who, laying aside all claims of inheritance and filial duty, have earned many times the value of the whole in the wages of nurse and housekeeper. The cold blooded record of current events, however, tell in this instance a dif ferent story. Oregonian. would have made the boys proud, he appeared in a slouch hat and civil ians clothes. Every member of the militia, officers and privates, felt the slur, and appreciate it at its full value, , They did their duty in at tending the encampment, and in the lisrht of the governor's action at Camp Jackson, we can understand why he appointed Corbett. He didn't know any better. LESSON OF THE STRIKE. It is possible that nature intends that human industry shall procoed by great vibratory or oscillating move ments of alternate activity and ces sation. Prrsident Knight, of the Indiana district, United Mine workers of America, says the real object of the coal miners' strike is to clear out the markets and counsel the operators to pay living wages to their men. He declares it is not a war on oper ators, and the miners do not so re gard it. They admit, according to Mr. Knight, that the operators are not responsible for the present ag gravatcd condition of affaiis, but arc, like the men they employ, the vic tims of over production and under consumption. The workings of natural economic law seem to be mainly responsible for the great strike. There may have been much wisdom in the Jew ish law which provided that one 3-ear in seven should be a year of Sabbath or rest. Telegram. THE HONEST FARMER. A NEW LAW CAUSES TROUBLE. THE MURDERED It Was CHILD FOUND. Buried Near the Montgomery Gulch. Foot of The American Volunteers, Balling ton Booth's religious organization will be compelled to change their uniforms because of the enactment of militia orders in Illinois. Policemen will not be permitted to wear over coats such as those worn by army officers. The Clan na Gael Guards will be disbanded, Capt Thomas J, Ford's famous Chicago zouaves will cease to be, the Chicago hussars will be required to drop their military trappings, while boys' brigades and semi-military companies throughout the state will be disbanded . or the members fined and imprisoned. AH of these things are owing to the provisions of article 11 of the military code, now a law, having re ceived the signature of Governor Tanner. For a long time the officers of the national guard have been trying to secure an enactment whish would prevent the indiscriminate wearing of a uniform and the carrying of arms by independent military organ izations. Now that the law has gone into effect it is found that it is more sweeping than its framers antici pa ted. Pnmarily aimed at independent organizations, it has accomplished its desire by making such companies as the Clan na Gael guards, Chicago and Aurora zouaves and the Chicago hussars unlawful bodies, and will render it impossible for them to pa rade again without assuming the risk of a fine and imprisonment. It will also stop the wearing of uniforms patterned after those of the army by members of secret societies, religious bodies and the police. DIDN'T KNOW ANY BETTER. up from to review The boys Governor Lord came Salem Saturday evening the troops at Hood River. were turned out in marching order, with knapsacks, haversacks, blankets everything necessary to go into a campaign.. The officers were, of course, on hand, and each of them had provided, at his own expense, u uniform suited to his rank. There was not an officer or private among the whole 850 men but that felt a pride in the organization except Governor Lord. General Beebe had provided a horse properly caparisoned for the use of the governor, as commander in chief of the Oregon militia; but At last the story of "Sandy" .Soper's local crimes is complete, for which Dr. Kesaler, of the East Side, is entitled to credit. When the murderer arrived in Mis souri, to answer for the murder of his former wife and two children there, about six years ago, he wrote to his heart-broken wife here, to the effect that when he deserted her, on the 16tb of last April, taking their 2-year-old child with him, he killed It, and buried the remains at the foot of Tillamook street. Search was made for 'the little body at the spot designated, bat no corpse was found. Dr. Keasler, who manifested a measure of humane in terest in the cape, for the purpose of re lieving Mrs. Soper's suspense, who vainly hoped that her child might yet be alive, wrote to Soper for a more defi nite location of the burial-place of the little body. On Friday he received a reply from the unnatural and unreliable murderer, bnt the information was not measurably clearer than the first ob tained from him. However, the rest of that -day, Dr. Kessler searched the foot of Montgomery gulcb, without euccess. The search was resumed in the thick brush on Saturday, and at 3 o'clock in the afternoon be die covered a small mound near the month of the gulch, from which he brought forth the murdered infant. It was cov ered by a comparatively thin layer of earth. The body was so badly decom posed that, at the time, the manner in which its life had been taken could not be satisfactorily settled. However, it was identified as having been the Soper child by its raiment, which was the same it had on when taken from home by the inhuman father on its death journey. The coroner soon thereafter took charge of the remains, This cruel blow to Mrs. Soper's never- flagging hope that her child 'was not dead, has rendered the unhappy woman's illness very precarious. CHILD WAS BURIED ALIVE At U:dl) o clock this morning an in quest was held over the remains of the poor little body, that represented the work of either a diabolical murderer or that of an insane man The inquest but added to the horror of the crime. The child had been buried alive ! Dr. Kessler, in his evidence, showed conclusively that Soper attempted to strangle the little one, and as it relaxed into unconsciousness believed he had accomplished bis horrible work. The murderer then proceeded to bury the body.- A. hollow grave was dng and the Btill unconscious infant placed in it. The child's cap was then drawn over its face and dirt and brush piled upon the body. Soper then left the scene. Hardly bad he reached the top of the trail, according to Dr. Kessler, before the child revived, and working its baby hand free from the weight of dirt and debris holding it down, tore away the cap in an effort to gain breath. Its baby strength was, however, insufficient to raise the load pressing the poor little body down. That the child struggled. is shown in the contorted position of the limbs as the child lay in its rude grave. The verdict of the coroner's jury was death by strangulation and suffocation, charging Soper with the murder. Tele gram. t SoaD Foam exnela all nthnr wnahintr instead of coming out in a way that compounds, a2-3m He la Simple and Unsuspecting, But Scoops . the Piano Drummer. "Talk all you want to about the bunco steerers and other sharpers of the metropolis," remarked a drummer the other evening at a downtown hotel to a Star reporter, "but some of the sharpest of the sharps are to be found in the country. Out among- the fields and lambs and sheep and other inno cent things, don't you know." "That's because you don't expect to find such sharpness among the rurals," explained the reporter, who was born and raised in the country, and didn't like to see his fellow-countrymen libeled. "Expecting it or hot," insisted the irummer, "the sharpness is there, just the same, and it is just as sharp. , For instance," and the drummer fixed him self for a longer heat, "some years ago, when I was a drummer jn pianos, I'll tell you what an experience 1 had. Our house was one of the big ones, with an advertisement in every newspaper in the country, and the way we sold pianos was a caution to snakes." Also a tip to alleged business men who don't advertise," interrupted the reporter. "lour 'also' is sustained," said tie drummer, and proceeded: "As I was saying, we sold pianos right and left, and, as might be expected, we picked up a bad customer at frequent inter vals. One of thee' had got a $300 piano on a small spot cash payment, bal ance monthly, on the strength of a farm we thought was his, also on his general reputation, which? up to this time had been as good as anybody's in the community. "Like Eve's in the garden ?" ventured the reporter. . "Exactly," smiled the drummer. "If the devil had not tempted that hitherto exemplary female she would have come through in good shape, and just so with our customer. A $300 piano was more than he could stand, and he went down before it. After his first payment he failed to respond, and we waited as long as was our practice, and then sent word to him to return the piano, as per contract. In due time the piano box, in as ccod trim as when we sent it. came back, and we put it in stock. A month later it was shipped to another customer, and we heard from it soon to the effect that there wasn't any piano there, but that the box was filled with pieces of wood and iron of about the .piano's weight, and wedged solidly into the box. Ordinarily we would not have been so careless, but we were rushing things, and had to neglect de-' tails. Now we had to make up for that neglect, and went after our bunco friend in the country. He lived ZOO miles away, and at a short distance from the small town to which w.e had shipped the piano, which was on the railroad.- Well, I got there one morn ing about 11 o'clock, and, tackling the first driver I saw, I asked him if he could take me to Jim Peters place. He was a nice, honest-appearing sort of a chap, and he told me Jim had moved to another place, about 20 miles away, and that I could only get there by driv ing over five miles to another road and trn ahead on that to Jim's station. I paid him a dollar to drive me over, and he told me, as I had never seen Mr, Peters, to ask anybody, and he would be pointed out, as everybody knew nun, The station where he caught the train was only a crossing, and my driver flagged the accommodation, the con ductor nodding familiarly to him. as I got aboard. As the train moved off my driver drove briskly away, and when the conductor came around ten minutes later, I asked him if he knew Jim Peters, and he almost toppled over on me in his surprise. 'Why why,' he stammered, 'that was Jim Peters driv ing you.' Then it occurred to me that the piano card on my satchel had given roe away, and Mr. Peters had done the rest. We tried to get the piano again, continued the drummer, "but we lost nil trace of it. and finally gave it up, and Mr. Peters, I presume, went with it," Washington Star. "SEPTEMBER . MOON-VIEWING. " Most Poetical Festival In the Little Japanese Island of Mlyajima, They were such kindly village and fisherfolk that we soon grew attached to our neighbors and one old sendo, or boatman, and bis sons were our daily companions. They knew where to take us in the morning to see best the beauti ful tangled and rocky shores, sculling the flat-bottomed sampan into caves and tunnels, and under arched rocks that framed charming pictures; and we never tired floating about the co lossal torii, the spell of . which ' was stronger each day. The Miyajima ur chins made water carnivals about us, diving and splashing- tirelessly f :r the smallest coins, our sampan surrounded by these lively little brown frogs with bright, happy faces. On the night of the great September moon-viewing' the sendo took Us far down the shore at sunset,- letting us see two of the ten forts of the island's defenses, their portholes and casements masked in foliage, and looking innocently down upon the narrow, tide-swept strait that commands one entrance to TJiina. In coming junks seemed to reef their sails purposely for us, fishermen cast, and drew their nets, and all of picturesque water-life showed until dusk. There was only a little time of dark ening grayness and real night before a pale effulgence showed behind the heights, and O'Chiku San rose, tangled herself in a pinetree's branches, soared clear for awhile as she turned the whole bay, the temple, and the torii to silver, and then, like a true Japanese moon, barred herself across with narrow cloud-bands. There were quite groups and solitary souls muttering under the breath on the hill beside the Taiko's hall, and looked down upon the temple. which seemed to be truly floating on a full-flowing silver sea; every court was a shining space, and no sound was heard save the distant hand-strokes of those praying before the shrines. From this vision of enchantment we went by shadowy streets to our maple leaf home, where the witchery of moon light filled the little glen with more of fairy-land than ever. At our doorway a little altar- table had been placed, and two plates of the rice-dumplings symbolic of abundance and prosperity. and a vase of Lespedeza and the early "autumn weeds," illuminated by the flame of a tiny wick laid over the edge of a saucer of oil,- were set in silent offerings to O'Chiku San. A deer stood back in the shadows, gazing with shin ing eyes at this eloquent offering, but nothing disturbed the homely altar until dawn showed the saucer burned dry of its oil, and the greatest r-on-festival'of the year was over. Eliza Kuhamah Scidmore, in .Century. TO THE EH ST! GIVES THE CHOICE OF TWO Transcontinental ROUTES! GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. OREGON SHORT LINE. -VIA- Spokane Minneapolis St. Paul Chicago Salt Lake Denver Omaha -1 ; Kansas City Low Rates to all Eastern Cities OCEAN 8TKAMKR8 Leave Portland Every Five Bars tor SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. For full details call on O. S A Co " Arait t Toe Dulles, or address , W, H. HUBLBURT, Gen. Pass. Agt Portland, Oregon E. M'NEILL President aud Manager Jardlnere Hats. Some handsome new mats to place under the jardiniereB kept on polished tables are squares of white China silk with a border of plush about a finger wide. These mats are made ove,r a stiff foundation of crinoline or canvas, covered with a layer of cotton and lined at the back with silk of a contrasting color. For instance, one of those seen. which is in a room where there is much green of various shades, has a border of olive pluah, and is coverea at tne oacK with, olive China silk. The center of white China silk is covered with an all over pattern -of flowers of about the size of a 25-cent piece. These flowers are outlined in coarse-green embroidery silky. On the mat was a green jardi niere holding a palm. The plant was placed on a Turkish coffee table of ma hogany. These low tables are mucn used' in all kinds of wood for holding a single plant. In a room with a different coloring the mat could be made of white and dark or old blue, or of raspberry color and white. A spread made for a large mahogany dining table is a larger square of this kind, so that when laid on the table it leaves the corners bare. It has a border of apple-green, satin. N. Y. Post. CATARRH i. LOCAL DISEASE and is the result of colds and sudden climatic changes. For your Protection we positively state that this remedy does not contain mercury or any other injur ious drug. Ely's Cream Balm is acknowledged to be the most thorough cure for Nasal Catarrh, Cold in Head and Hay fever of all remedies. It opens anri cleanses the nasal passages, allays pain and Inflammation, heals the sores, pro tects the membrane from colds, restores the senses of taste and smell. Price 50c. at DrnEffists or by mail. ELY BaOTimati. oa wanes street, fiew lots. Firemen's Excursion to Multnomah Falls, Sunday, July 11th. Str. Regulator. Tickets, $1.00. TIMS CARD. No. 4. to Snokane and Great Northern arrlvAR at 6 tj. m., leaves at 6:05 t. m. No. '2. to Pent) 1b. ton, Baker City and Union Pacific, arrives at 1:15 a m., departs at 1 :20 a. m. No 3, from Spokane and Great Northern, ar rives at 8 30 a. m., departs at 8:35 a. m. No. 1, from Bakir City and Union Pacific, arrives at 3:55 a. m., departs at 4 :00 a. m. Nos. 23 and 24, moving east of The Dallas, will cany passengers. No. 23 grrives at 6:30 p.m., departs at 12:45 p. m. Passengers for Heppner will take train leaving here at 6:05 p. m. ' EAST and SOUTH via The Shasta Route OF THE Southern Pacific Comp'y. Trains leave and are due to arrive at Portland. 6:00 P.M. 8:30 A.M. Daily except Sunday. t7:30 A. M. 14:50 P.M. OVERLAND EX-1 press, Salem, Rose-1 burg, Ashland, Sac-1 1 Franciseo, Moiave, ( I ijos Angeies,ci rsso, i I New Orleans and I East I Roseburg and way stations Via Woodburn fori MtAneel. Silver ton. I West btio, Browns- I ville,Sprlngneld aud I (.Natron J (Corvallis and way! (Stations iMcMinnvllle andj (way stations 1 9:30 A. M. 4:30 P.M Dally except Sundays. t 5:50 P.M. t 8:25 P.M Daily. " fDaiiy, except Sunday. DINING CARS ON OGDEN ROUTE. PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS AND SECOND-CLASS SLEEPING CARS Attached to all Through Trains. Regulator Line Tie Dalles, Portlani and Astoria Navigation Co.' strs. Regulator 6 Dalles City FREIGHT AND PASSENGER LINE BBTWEBN The Dalles, Hood River, Cascade Locks and Port land daily, except Sunday. GOOD SERVICE. LOWEST RATES Are you going ' DOWN THE YALLEI OR TO EASTERN 'OREGON? If so, save money and enjoy a beautiful trip on the Columbia. The we t-bound train arrives at The Dalles in ample time for passengers to take the steamer, arriving in Portland in time for the outgoing Southern and Northern trains; East bound passengers arriving in The Dales in time to take the East-bound train. For further information apply to J. N. HARNEY, Agent, was street dock, i-ortiana, Oregon, Or W. C. ALLAWAY, Gen. Agt., The Dalies, Oregon For Sale. New Massiton separator, 24-inch cyl inder, as good aa new, having only threshed 1000 bushels. Also Dineee Woodbary 12-horse power. Price $300. Call on or address T. Balfocb, jnl91m Lyle, Wash. Direct connection at Han Francisco with Occi dental and Oriental and Pacific mail steamship Hues for JAPAN and CHINA. Sailing dates on a plication. Kates 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 Office, 134 Third street, where through tickets to all points in the Eastern States, Canada and Europe can be obtained at lowest rates from J. B. KIRKLAND, Ticket Agent. All above trains arrive at and depart Irotp Grand Central Station, Fifth and Irving streets. YAMHILL DIVISION. . Passenger Depot, foot of Jetterson street. Leave for OSWEGO, dally, except Sunday, at 7:20 a. m.; 12:15, 1:45, 5:25, 6:45, "8:06 p. m. (and 11:30 p. m. on Saturday only, and 8:40 a. m. and 8:30 . m. on Sundays only). Arrive at Portland daily at 7:10 and 8;30 a m.; and 1:80, 4:15, 6:85 and 7:55 p. m., (and 10 a. in , 315 and 5:10 p. m. on Sundays only). lave for Sheridan, week days, t4:30p. m Arrive at Portland, 9:30 a. m. v Leave for AIRLIE on Monday, Wednesday and lav at 9:40 a. m. Arrive at dav, Thursday and Saturday at 8:05 p. m. Frioay at 9:40 a. m. Except Sunday. R. KOEHLER, Manager. Arrive at Portland, Tues- Except Saturday. - E. P. ROGERS, Asst G. F. & Pass. Agt Dalles, Mora and Antelope STAGE LINE." Through by daylight via Grass Valley, Kent and Cross Hollows. DOUGLAS ALLEN, The Dalles. C. M. WBITBLAWi Antelope Stages leave The Dalles from Umatilla House at 7 a. m also from Antelope at 7:30 a. m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Connections made at Antelope for Prlneville, Mitchell and Ejtnta beyond. Close connections made at The alles with railways, trains and boats. . Stages from Antelope reach The Dalles Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays at 1:30 p. m. BATES OW FABB. . 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