, AUSTRALIAN BALLOT LAV
Section oue to eight ipclnslve, provide
for opening the polls,' and are similar to
the old election laws.
Sec. 0. All general or special elections
hereafter held in this state shall be con
ducted under the provisions of this act,
and the polls shall be opened at 8 a. in.,
and continue open until 6 p. m. ' Prior
tp opening the polls the chairman of
judges of election shall make public
proclamation of the game, and thirty
minutes before closing of the polls pub
lic proclaiuatiou shall be made by The
same officer, that the polls will be closed
in half an hour. Provides for noon ad
jonrnment, keeping poll books, boxes,
tally sheets, etc, tcgetber in the pref-
ence of four officers, and the Cnal count
ing of the ballots.
Sec. 10. Provides that .in-all -special
elections certificates of nomination may
be filed at anv time' between the date of
the writ authorizing tie election, and
the time of holding the election.
Sec. 11. Provides for challenge of any
person suspected as not being a qualified
elector.
Sec. 12. Provides the oath ami wanner
of proceeding with person challenged.
Sections 13, 14, 15, relate to the same
subject.
. Sec. 16. Provides rules for determining
residence and qualifications of electors
1. The place in which his habitation is
fixed, and to which, whenever he is ab
sent, lie bas the intention of returning
2. Shall not lose his residence by going
into another state or territory or county
of this state for a temporary purpose
only. 3. A person cannot gain a resi
lience in any county in this state where
lie may be for temporary .purposes only,
4. If a person remove with intention of
-changing; his residence, it must be held
that he has lost his residence ia this
state. 5. The place where a married
man's family resides shall be considered
and held to be his residence. 6. The
place where an unmarried man sleeps
shall be considered to be his residence,
7. If a person shall go from this state to
any other state or territory and there ex
ercise the right of suffrage, he shall be
held to have lost residence in this state,
8. All qualified electors shall vote in the
election precinct in the county where
they may reside for county officers, and
in any county in the state for state offi
c rs, or in any county of a congressional
district in which such elector may reside
for members of congree.
Sec. 17. It shall be the duty of the
judges of election, or the chairman there
of, immediately before proclamation is
made of the opening of the polle, to open
the ballot boxes in the presence of the
people there assembled, and turn, the,
ame upside down, eo as to empty the
aid boxes of anything that may be in
them, and then lock said boxes securely,
and they shall not be re-opened until
Tor the purpose of counting the ballots
therein at the close of the election
Soring the election one of the judges,
other than the chairman, shall have the
custody of the keys.
Sec. 18. In all incorporated cities and
towns in this state, no person shall ap
proach or stand within fifty feet of the
polls when open for the purpose of re
ceiving votes, except such peace officers
as are particularly selected or appointed
by the judges to preserve order or en
force the law within such limits, and
electors actually desiring and proceeding
to vote, and but ten electors shall be
permitted to approach the polls within
nfty feet at the same time; provided,
hotceter, that the said judges of election
. shall, if requested, permit one person
from each political party, selected by the
party, to stand outside of the guard-fail
at the polls, while open for receiving
votes, for the purpose of challenging vo
ters; arm the said judges of election
shall, if requested, permit the respective
candidates, or some person selected by a
-candidate, or by several candidates, or a
political party ,to be present (but outside
the guard-rail) where the said judges are
during the time of receivin and counting
the votes. Swch selections shall be evi
denced by a writing signed by the chair
man and secretary of such political par
ty, or by the candidate, or candidates,
and presented to and filed with the,
juuges. 4
bee. 19. For the purpose " of holding
elections and preserving order at the
polls, the judges of election are hereby
appointed, and invested with the juris
diction of justices of the peace during
tne time of holding elections ; and they,
- er a majority of them , are hereby author
ized to impose and enforce a fine not ex
ceeding fifty dollars for each offense, to
. be applied to -the benefit of the school
fund, on any person ' or- -persons who
shall conduct themselves in a disorderly
or riotous manner at the polls, and shall
persist in such conduct after having been
warned of the : consequence, or who
hall refuse 'to '. move from the polls
fifty feet when directed, er on any
person who shall be detected in the com
aaission, in the immediate presence of
the judges, of any offenses defined by
this act, and on the refusal or neglect to
forthwith pay the same to the chairman
. to commit him or them to the common
jail of the county for any time not ex-.
eeeding 25 days, or until the fine is paid
and the sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable
and jailor, and policeman of any incor
porated city or town are hereby required
to forthwith execute said order, as tho
4l had been issued by a magistrate in due
form of law. Judges may appoint
special officer if needed.
(To be Continue.) - .
ODD SORT OF SLAVERY.
SECURING GOVERNMENT LABORERS
IN MADAGASCAR.
.. 'Terrible Farm ol EnplajnMt That
Usbei -Over tlie Head of Every Miwlm
ruunu What "Fanampoana" Means
Ut a Harbaroos People., ., ' ; ; . -
Not. only is slavery universal through
out Madagascar, tut also is there a still
more, enizantic evil, and one which is
even more surely crushing the manhood
.nd stifling the life of that curious and
beautiful country.
-"Fanainpoana, or forced labor, has a
protean shape. It may best be nnder:
stood by describing it as partaking of the
nature of the corvee; it is also applied to
conscription, to all kinds of government
service; it is part of the feudal system,
and it even sometimes tabes the shape of
a "logging bee." It would be unjust to
the astute old man who presides over the
destinies of the people of that country if
it were not stated that be has more than
once considered a plan by which it might
be modihed and reformed. But the sys
tem is too deeply woven into tne inner
life of the nation to be dealt with except
by a master hand, and then only with
the assistance of outside and friendly
financial support. For instance, it is one
of the main characteristics of . Fanam-
poan' that it supplies the place of the
payment of officials "throughout the is
land. In fact, in all Madagascar no sec
retary, clerk, artisan, soldier or civilian
serving the government in whatever ca
pacity (with the exception of a trifling
percentage received by some of the gov
ernors of districts) is paid or even fed by
the state. "The queen honors them by
employing mem" (so the official euphem
ism runs) and they must feed and clothe
themselves. But when loyalty takes th
shape, as is constantly the case, of carry
ing vast weights of wood, iron or stone
on raw and bleeding shoulders, alone
goat tracks (for roads there are none)
through swamps and forests, up and
down hills 5,000 feet high, then the addi
tional stimulus of shackles aud leg irons
is needed to persuade the poor captured
peasant that on the whole he bad better
accept the "honor," half starved though
he must be.
POWER OF TUB QUEEN.
If he runs away he brings punishment
on his family, and becomes a fugitive
and a bushranger; the numerous robber
bands are mainly recruited from such
runaways. Hundreds of instances could
be cited, especially, within the past
twelve months, to show that this tyran
ny is becoming more and more unsnp
portable. In the first place all the land in Mada
gascar, with comparatively few excei
tions, belongs nominally to the queen,
but actually to the government. At the
present moment and for many years past
the government is and has been com
pletely centered in and despotically ruled
by the prime minister, Bainilaiarivorny.
who besides his original wife has mar
ried two successive queens of Madagas
car. Fortunately for himself and his
family his rule has, on the .whole, been
wise as well as vigorous. In the Saka
lava expedition, out of tens of thousands
of peasants who were summoned, as
sembled, and even partially drilled
throughout the country, only about 2,000
could be actually laid hold of, and a few
months of fever and numerous deser
tions quickly reduced this ntraiber.
Similarly in the alluvial gold fields,
which are being worked by forced labor
upon the enormous nominal royalty of
55 per cent to the government (45 per
cent, is divided among the foreign
shareholders, directors and superintend
ents), immense exertions have to be con
stantly made to keep up the supply of
forced labor.
TALENT UNDER A BUSHEL.
Thus it comes about that this most
important branch of the national wealth
is not developed. Here,' as elsewhere,
serfdom spells poverty.
.Again, in the case of craftsmen and
artificers, Madagascar possesses and
could produce plenty of men whose
talent would compare favorably with
that of almost any people in the world.
But the moment they show proficiency
in their art they are "Fanampoaned,"
that is,' they are honored by being em
ployed by the government or by some
powerful official, without wage and
without food. A clever craftsman, from
whom you buy a work of art, in what
ever metal, begs you v not to -say from
whom you purchased it, solely for fear
of the "honor" which would be in store
for him. So if you want a good tinsmith,
carpenter or jeweler you must not search
for him among the tradesmen of his own
craft;, but the clever jeweler is found
among the washermen, and so on, in an
amusing "bo-peep" of industry. The
queen honors "Raini-be" or "Bootoo"by
taking him away from his rice fields just
at the season when his labor and . super
vision are most required for his crop. So
the unfortunate "freeman," who is not
allowed to send his slave as his substi
tute mark the grandeur of the distinc-
tion conferred upon him is remorseless
ly bled, even to his penultimate dollar,
if he desires to procure exemption from
tne noaor. i.ortimghtli Review.
. A Problem 'In Mathematics. -
A vessel divided into f arty-two thirty-seconds"
was discovered at . the cus
tom house ' when the official papers of
the schooner H. CMousley were being
hanged from registered to a coasting
aft. ' Forty-two owners were marked
a the papers, each owning a tblrty-eec-end
part of the craft. What to do about
tbe matter puzzled the captain 'very
much, but he left feeling that he had
not only the largest vessel under the
Kmericmn flag, but the biggest in the
wold. Philadelphia Record.
A Play That Failed.
Ftedgeley I see that bow knots in
jewelry are very fashionable.
Gwendolin Beau knots have always,
been fashionable.
And she thought she heard the dull
thud of the setting sun, a the yooag
ban showed no signs of IntelUgesoa.
Jewelers' Circular.
-.'-.;. ;. riefcttas- HI Fleafcw ...
General Furlong is gentleman of in
dependent means, who lives at the rifts
Avenue hotel. ie is a large, neavy wjs
man, whose tendency is to get larger
and heavier set All he has in the world
to do is to look pleasantr-fu. wbjch, jtp
succeeds ' admirably and. o fight tnis
flesh. Most people thus unhappily situ
ated have some hobby to ride and al
ways go cantering off ..on the slightest
provocation. Not so General Furlong.
His hobby is walking. He never rides
anything not even his Jiobby.
Most people m easy financial circum
stances would now and then try a Broad
way car if they didn't keep a brougham"
and pair, but he entertains a prejudice
against everything on wheels. He walks.
Technically speaking, there are eight
furlongs to the mile; in his case one Fur
long will cover eight miles without
stretching. Sixteen to twenty miles a
day are as nothing to him. -
There is a pleasant fiction about the
aristocratic Fifth avenue that ' when'
General - Furlong is out he has "just
stepped down to the . Astor House." If
anybody calls for him,'-"Oh, he'll be back
soon he is probably strolling around Ir
vington somewhere," or, "He went out
for a short walk he . is by this time
either at the Battery or in Harlem."
Manhattan island is too small for General
Furlong. This talk of rapid transit
makes him tired. New York Herald.
Attends Executions, but Dislikes Funerals.
The great weakness of a well known
reporter in a large city is a partiality for
attending executions! For many years
past he has been present at all the exe-'
cntions which have taken place in his
own neighborhood as the representative
of and important daily journal.
Mr. Titerope can tell you scores of in
teresting anecdotes about celebrated
criminals, unknown to or forgotten by
the present generation, whose departure
to another sphere he assisted at, as he
himself jocularly puts it. He can make
your blood run cold with his stories about
awful scenes on the scaffold. He is still
hale and hearty, and expects to be a wit
ness of many more scaffold scenes before
his own work is ended. A murder in his
own neighborhood is enough to raise him
to an unwonted state of excitement, for
in the murderer he sees a wretch who
probably will pay the penalty of his
crime upon the scaffold.
Mr. Titerope is an excellent reporter
and is ready for any kind of work with
one exception. That exception, strange
to say, is a funeral. His chief and his
colleague's are aware of his dislike for
that particular kind of duty, and to a
funeral he has not been for years. But
what an extraordinary thing it is that a
man with a fondness for executions should
be so averse to attending a funeral.
London Tit-Bits.
Pure Coffee.
There is one consolation for the prev
alent adulteration of coffee, which is
that the people who use the adulterated
article are apt to be better off in health
than those who partake largely of the
pure article. It is known that coffee in
creases the pulse, makes the mind active
and produces wakefulness. Consequent
ly most people take it in the" morning.
In large quantities it produces palpita
tion of the heart, consequently people
with heart trouble are forbidden to drink
coffee. Taken at night it produces wake
fulness. One cup of black coffee at night will
give a night of misery to any one inclined
to heart trouble' and keep awake for the
entire night a person pot accustomed to
its use. The optimist must therefore
hail with delight the prevalence of adul
terated coffee.
The epicure, however, will continue to
get his -coffee green, roast it himself,
grind it with religious exclusion of any
adulterants and use it at once by mak
ing a decoction by pouring boiling water
over it and never boiling the coffee in
the water to be drunk. Thus the epicure
may extract the utmost of unhealthf ul
ness from the fragrant and delicious
berry, adding another to the long list of
pleasures that are somewhat hurtful.
New York Sun.
Fashion In Pill Boxes.
You saw the customer ahead of you.'
You heard him ask what sort of pill
boxes we are using this season. There is
a fashion in pill boxes the same as in hats
and bonnets and parasols. -Some years
the round pill box of the olden times is
the rage. Then we have the oblong box
and the box which has a drawer in it.
There is a variety of shades in these box
es. Some seasons they run to one color
altogether, and there are customers who
insist upon their pills being put into the
box which is all the go. A woman sent
back a box of capsules because the box
was black when the fashionable shade is
pink. These things do not prevail in
such stores as ours, but in the parlor
drug stores , in the swell "centers they
have to observe these niceties to the let
ter. Pharmacist in Chicago Tribune. . ;
KeTeetive Way -t Cutting; Iron., , r '
' It is well known that a smooth disk of
steel driven at a high speed will cut in
two a file held to the edge of the disk..
This principle does not seem to have
been practically used save in an inntanpa
recorded in a government armory.. , The
ends of tempered steel ramrods, such as
were in use twenty-five years ago, were
being treated and the material-was found
to be too hard to out. Some small wheels
of iron, about six inches faa diameter and
one inch thick, were broogfa into requi
sition. They were driven at the rate erf
8,000 revolutioxBS per minute, and melted
or abraded. the metal away instantly, vt
the same time drawing the tempers
that screw thread oonld afterward be
at on the end of the tempered
Pitteberg Diepatoh.
Vour Well I
The Earl of Dudley holds the largest'
life insurance ever effected, ttie amount
being for $6,000,000. Second in the list
ones Mr. Wanamaker, whose policies1
of t5.250.000 exceed that nf tha vu J
ill the Russias by $250,000. Fourth
comes the Prince of Wales, whose life ts
toaured for $3,828,000. Tankee Blade. .
A Miens Maws. :
- vAb Auburn business man and av friend
were out hunting the other ' day. : A big
hawk flew over their heads and they
blazedvaw3yvjat him. The shot broke
the bird's -yfuig" and he- came to the
ground- alighting ltt Ws baclj, He was
unable to turn over and get upon his
feet, but was lively just the same, as the
' Auburn hunters found before they suc
ceeded in killing him. "
The business man placed the ramrod
of his gun in the hawk's big, grasping
claws, all of which straightaway closed,
like the jaws of an enraged mud initio
snapping at a stick in the hands of mis
chievous boy. With the claws' thus
taken care of the business man's friend
proceeded to wring the bird's neck. In
the earlier stages of the operation the
harder the friend worked the tighter
would the hawk grasp the, iron ramrod
and flap its wings. -
. All this was ran for the hunters, who
after a long struggle declared them
selves winners of , the scrap. They had
hardly so proclaimed when the bird got
his wind, and leaving . the ramrod vi
ciously attacked his persecutors.
As fate would have it, the business
man's friend, being nearest, was the first
to catch it. The hawk lighted on his
wrist, and the way he stuck there was a
caution. One claw sunk deep into the
hunter's wrist, and he called loud and
long for mercy.
The business man, seeing that some
thing must be done at the risk of his
life, finally went to his friend's rescue.
He got a good hold on the sunken claw,
braced his feet against a rock, and was
successful . in pulling it out. As the
claw came out, the hawk fell back and
in a moment was still in death. They
found that the bird's wings measured
three feet and ten inches from tip to tip.
Maine Letter.
pimples,
The old Idea of 40 years ago was that facial
eruptions were due to a "blood humor," for
which they gave potash. Thus all the old Saraa-
parillas contain potash, a most objectionable and
drastic mineral, that instead of . decreasing,
actually creates more eruptions. You have no
ticed this when taking other Barsaparillas than
Joy's. It is however now known that the stom
ach, the blood creating Vower, is the seat of all
vitiating or cleansing operations. A stomach
clogged by indigestion or constipation, vitiates
the blood, result pimples. A clean stomach and
healthful digestion purifies it and they disappear.
Thus Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla is compounded
alter the modern idea to regulate the bowels and
stimulate the digestion. The effect is immediate
and most satisfactory. A short testimonial to
contrast the action of Cue potash Sarsaparillas
and Joy's moJern vegetable preparation, lira.
C. I. Etuart, of 400 Kayc St., S. F., writes: "I
hare for years had intilscslioii, I tried a popular
Sarsaparilla bnt it actually caused more pimples
to break out o:i my face. 11 earl ng that Joy's was
a later preparation and aclci differently, I tried
it and the pimples, immediately diKappcared."
S Vegetable
Sarsaparilla
Largest bottle, must effective, same price, '
For Sale by SNIPES a K1NERSLY
THE DAIXE8. OREGON.
LTt GRIPPE
By using S. B. Headache and liver Cure, and S.
B. Cough Cure as directed for colds. They were
STJ'OOXSSBS'TJXjIj'E'
used two years ago during the La Grippe epi
demic, and very nattering testimonials of their
power over that disease are at tand. Manufact
ured by the 8. B. Medicine Mfg. Co.; at Dufur,
Oregon. For sale by all dru ggists.
A Severe Law.
The English peo
ple look more closely
to the genuineness
of these staples than
we do. In fact, they
have a law under
which they make
seizures and de-
t?r siroy adulterated
- products that are
not what they are represented to be. Under
this statute thousands of pounds of tea have
been burned because of their wholesale ad al
teration. - , - ;
Tea, by tho way, is one of the most notori
ously adulterated articles of commerce. Not'
.. alone are the bright, shiny green tea artifi
cially 'colored, bat thousands of pounds of
substitutes' for tea leaves are, used to swell
. the hulk of cheep teas; ash, sloe, and willow
leaves-'Tieing those 'jnost commonly used.
Again, -sweepings from tea warehouses are !
. colored and sold as tea. Even exhausted lea
.. leaves gathered from the tea-honsee are kept,
dried, and made over and Cud their way Into
tbeebcap teas. - . .
The EaglUb. gov frnneot atrompte to stamp
' hi out by co:ifikc&U.n; but no tea istoo
pouforu'. and the rasuh U, that probably
the poorest tele iaed by any nation are those "
eonsumed lu Ameriea. -
: Beech'a Tea is presented wits she gmmt
auty that it is anoolored and unadulterated;
la fact, the suB-eareo. tea leaf para and slm- '
r-Pis- Ita purity insares - superior strength,
about one third loss of it tein- required fox
a iafuaion thaaor the a-tiflciI teas, and Its
fragraaoe and exquisite flavor is at aaee ap
parent. II win be a revelation, to yoa. Is'
order thai its parity and quality may be guar
anteed. It ia sold aaly la poaaed packages
Coring this trade-mark:
BEEC
PuTBAsWdhopd?
Price SOepwpoaDsl. Vcaraalaa
Zieslle Sutler's,
Joy
iw. TEA
Tne Dalles
Of the Leading City of Eastern Oregon.
During the little over a year of its existence it
VlOt? Jfsl 1A rt4-1 W WAJ .a. www . J a. a
-j w .vu.u. mo uujeuts xor wnica xt
was founded, namely, to assist in developing our
industries, to advertise the resources of the city and
adjacent country and to -work for an open river to
the sea. Its record is before the people and the
phenomenal support it has received is accepted as the
a . CO,! JinS 1. 1 V III H I T-sTt TTI I
expression of their approval. Independent in every
thing, neutral in nothing,
for what it believes to be
Commencing with the
vclume the weekly has been enlarged to eight pages
while the price -($1.50 a year) remains the' same.
Thus both the weekly
more reading matter for
published in the county.
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