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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-19
Pastimes of city Boys.

A singular game has for its founda-
ton an ash barrel. Across the top of
this is placed board two or three inches
in width, which projects about the same
distance over the rims of the barrel. On
one of these projecting ends ball is bal
anced; the batsman then takes his bat
and with all his strength strikes the
other end of the board. The ball flies
up and away in before unknown direc-
ton, and the batsman, should he not be
caught out, attempts to run to base
and return before the ball can be fielded
''home."
Look above you at the telegraph wires.
Sooner or later they become the natural
end of every kite flown in this street,
and the tattered fragments with which
the wires are adorned bear witness that
kite flying as popular pastime, even if
disastrous to the kites. In this sport
country boys may fairly claim superior
ity. Comparatively few city boys know
how to fly a kite; they never seem able
to manage the tail. Kites in the city
can only be successfully flown from the
housetops.
Marbles we see of every kind, ''mig-
gles' and ''alleys," "taws" and ''agates. u
Generally the games are played in a
ring drawn with chalk on the sidewalk
for holes are not made or found here Sc
easily as they are in a country play.
ground. = Frank NJ. Chapman in St
Nicholas
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-19
THE PHYSICIAN AS A DEsPoT.
We Know the Doctor Is Fanible, Yet We
Trust Him Implicitly.


We Know the Doctor Is Fa1lible, Yet We
Trust Him Implicitly.
Without any pretense of faith in any
doctor who is not regular, and without
prejudice to sincere intention OF call
ing in thoroughly instructed and ex-
pert practitioner whenever occasion de-
mands, it is still permissible to smile
amiably at the professional jealousy OF
quacks. The successful physician, with
exceptions which happily are much more
numerous than they were, is the most
intolerant despot on earth. And we en-
courage him to be so.
We are vaguely aware of the hmita-
tions of his knowledge; we know that
he has to guess first what is the matter
with us, and next what will do us good,
and that though there are facts his ac-
quaintance with which helps him to
guess right, many theories that regulate
his professional action are still hypothet-
ical, and may or may not be correct.
We know that he has discovered that
many of the methods his father used
were unwise and deleterious, and that
the doses his grandfather gave often
hastened the result they were intended
to prevent and hindered what they were
designed to induce.
We know not only that he is man,
and therefore fallible, but that his pro-
fessional science, like his fathers and
grandfather's, is progressive, and is still
very far from being exact. Neverthe
less when anything ails us, in spite of
all we know of his limitations, we fly to
him as though he were all wise, and do
as nearly what he tells US as our flesh
and our pockets permit. For we believe
that, erring and inadequate as he is, he
knows more than we do, and that his
knowledge is, on the whole, the best that
is at our command.
The childlike trust in our physicians
is phenomenon which is creditable to
us and to our doctors, and from which
we both get benefit. Undoubtedly our
physicians do US good, and indeed they
ought to, even if they knew less and
guessed less fortunately than they do,
I. else were faith a much less potent virtue
than it is declared to be.
But it is one thing for us to flock of
our own accord to the doctors, and quite
another thing for those professional
gentlemen to hold that we shall come
to them and to none else, and that
we may neither be legitimately born,
nor die legally, except with the concur.
renee of the learned aculty.-Scribner's.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-19
Triaing Things in Court.

Very trifiing things sometimes go very
far in the courts. The supreme court of
the United States has ended costly and
long controversy by ruling upon the
question, ''Is the tomato fruit or a
vegetable?' About $1,000 has been ex-
pended in the celebrated ''Jones county
calf case" in Iowa, in which the owner
ship of u calf valued at fifteen dollars is
involved. A Medina county (O.) farmer
a few years ago refused to pay taxes on
four moolleys on the ground that the
law provided for the taxation of f'all
horned cattle of whatsoever. kind, :"
whereas the four cows had no horns
This case was ended in the circuit court
after the costs had eaten up the value of
the defendants farm. A suit for taxes
in which the Standard Oil company is
involved to the extent of several hun
dred thousand dollars in Pennsylvania
and Ohio hangs upon the insertion of a
comma in an Ohio statute.-C Chicago
Mail
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-19
Tho Cost of Feasts in the Past.

In 1888 the opening of lingo Jones
new theater was celebrated by an elabo-
rate banquet, attended by the lords of
the council, and the bill amounted to
eS4 5s. Id, exclusive of wine. Glass
and plate were hired, and some of the
former was broken and had to be paid
for. We have the details of three din
ners in 1916 A leg of mutton costs 3s.
4d.; a sirloin of beef, 9s.; chickens and
8 rabbits, 5s 3d.; 8 artichokes, Is, and
caulihowers, Is. Sd. For buttered ale,
the ingredients of which were a hundred
eggs, 8 gallons of ale, 2 pounds of but
ter, 8 pounds of sugar and l ounce OF
nutmegs, the charge was los. 11d.-Gen-
tleman's Magazine.
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linnples-

The old idea of 40 years ago was that facial
eruptions were due to a stb1ood humor," for
which they gave potash Thus all the old Sarsa-
parillas contain potash, most Objectionable and
drastic mineral, that instead OF decreasing,
actually creates more eruptons. You have no
tced this when taking other. .Sarsaparillas than
joys. 1t is however now known that the stom-
ach. the blood creating power is the seat of all
vitiating or cleansing operations. A stomach
clogged by indigestion constipation, vitiates
the blood, result pimples- A clean stomach and
healthful digestion puries it and they disappear.
Thus joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla is compounded
after 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 the potash Sarsaparillas
and joys modern vegetable preparation. Mrs
C. D. Stuart, of 400 Hayes St, S. F., writes: "
have for years had indigestion, tried popular
Sarsaparilla but it actually caused more pimples
to break out on my face Hearing that joys was
later preparation and acted differently, tried
it and the pimples Immediately disappeared.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-19
LITTLE JoKELErs.

Character is to intellect what loco
motive is to train of cars. -
A sugar exchange has opened at Pra-
que. Bohemia, and the dealings are
large.
1t is officially stated that Porte will
not permit the Jews to immigrate into
Jerusalem.
Smile at the world and it will smile
back at you. Let it see you weep and
it will laugh at you.
A good man is a man who is good to
US, and bad man is man who doesn't
do what we want him to do.
The friend who cries with you finds
out a great many things you will re-
gret when your eyes are dried.
One trouble about unpleasant people
is that it generally seems impossible
for them to get out of the way.
How much more detestable fault
appears when we can trace it to some
one whose station in life we envy.
Eduaction is all right, just so it does
not make the victim too smart to work
and not smart enough to get long
without working.
Rurgalar-What would you say if !
were to blow your head off for not tell
ing me where your money is? Mr.. Joker
Not a word sir, not word.-Los0ell
Citizen.
! An Austrian professor says many Ia
dies who keep lapdogs suffer from an
affection of the liver, occasioned by a
small parasite which is peculiar
to the dogs liver.
Attorney Ito witness)-You know this
man? Witness-Yes, sir. Attorney
What is his reputation for truth and
! two hcrr fod oh
ituary verses.-Epoch.
"Oh, by the way, DEAR" began the
''society post' correspondent. '.What il
it?'' asks the patient spouse. 81 wish
to speak to you of Miss Figg, who vacs
toned here last Spring. Should say
that she sprung here or that she spring
ed here ?"-Chihdgo Times.
The Brighton Beach Music hall pro
gramme says of the Schubert B-mino1
(uninished) symphony:
''The Finale is fitting climax in iti
resistless rush and the ending closes
with an immense crescendo, fiery in it,
energy, and spreading over 164 measures
before coming to the final rest.
Crowded Out-''I like this dress very
much'' said Ethel. 'sIt's just two de
pockets3'' EsHere they are,' said tn,
dressmaker, handing her two small silk
en- bags. You'll have to carry them il
your hands. There's not room in thu
dress for them .''-Harpers Bazar.
Living skeleton (only one in Americ'
at dime museum )-These folks maxi
me tired. Sympathetic Visitors-Il
what way? E'Here I am earning $500
week as the greatest living skeleton, ye
hour after hour, day in and day out, on
old woman after another stops an
chins at me about the things I ought t.
eat to get fat. Street & SMITHS Goo
NeaUs.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-19

One of the novelties at the st. Pancras
exhibition in London, England, was a
sausage machine, driven by electric mo-
tor. In conjunction with this machine
it has been proposed to employ an electra
heating attachment, whereby the savory
dish can be delivered cooked and snok-
ing hot to the purchaser. 1t begins to
look as if the shrewd individual who
conceived the idea of universal pig
utilizing machine, into which the animal
could be put at one end, to emerge at the
other as cured hams and backing brushes,
was no visionary, but only a prophet a
little in advance of his times.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-19
silver. Not Honor, wanted.

Theodore de Banville, the poet, could
not be persuaded to seek place in the
French Academy. One day Francois
Coppee vainly tried all his arts to over
come the prejudice of De Banville.
"But," he cried at Last, ''what will You
do if we bring you the notification of
your election on a silver platter De
Banyille answered quickly, tI shall GER
tainly accept the silver plate. Paris
Figaro.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-19
The Masher Mashed .

ST want some nice little thing for my
something that'H please her." said
Masham. Perhaps you could suggest
something"
"Y es." said the kaleslady. Il think a
telegram saying house has fallen on
you ought to please her. New York
Herald.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-19
Failure to Some One.

.'Is marriage. a failureg'' asked the
youth
"Yes. TO Alice Ponsonby, ). answered
the maid as she gazed down at the ring
which Horacc Fledgely had given her.
Jewellers Circular.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-19

Sweets are said to be bad for the
teeth"
"They are, very. My wife made pie
the other day, and broke Eve of my
front ones trying to bite through it. -
Harper.s Bazaar.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-19

S. B. Medicine Co.,
GENTLEMEN-Your kind favor received,
and in reply would say that I am more
than pleased with the terms offered me
on the last shipment of your medicines.
There is nothing like them ever intro
duced in this country, especially for La
grippe and kindred complaints. have
had no complaints SO far, and everyone
is ready with word of praise for their
M. F. HAcKLEY.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-19
a Necessity.

ally discontinue its use, and finally. cease it
altogether.
This state of things is due to the fact that
the Americans think SO much of business
and so little of their palates that they permit
China and Japan to ship them their cheapest
and most worthless teas. Between the
wealthy classes of China and Japan and the
exacting and cultivated tea-drinkers of
Europe, the finer teas find a ready market
The balance of the crop comes to America
Is there any wonder, then, that our taste for
tea does not appreciate? +sN
In view of these facts, is there not an i'm
mediate demand for the importation of .
brand of tea that is guaranteed to be un-
colored, unmanipulated. and Of absolute
purity? We think there is, and present
Beech's Tea Its purity is guaranteed in
every respect It has, therefore, more in
herent strength than the cheap teas you have
been drinking, fully one third less being re-
quired for an infusion. This you win dis
cover the first time you make It. Likewise,
the flavor is delightful. being the natural ia
vorof an unadulterated article. 1t is revela-
ton to tea-drinkers. Sold only in packages
bearing this mark:
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
ANOTHER GIGANTIC MON
OPOJ,Y-

The biggest combination over made
IN tho iron and steel business in this
country was brought about in Bos.
ton yesterday by the formation of
the National Pipe aud Tube Com
pany. The company WAS incorpor.
ated in New Jersey several weeks
ago. The capital stock was fixed at
only $4,000, and the comparative
inslgnifcance of this sum completely
deceived the public as to tho import
ance OF tho enterprise. No restric.
ton was placed on the amount of the
stock, however, and at yesterdays
meeting III Boston tho capital was
increased to Sll,5O0,0O0.
The low figure in the incorporation
papers was fixed, it is said, to keen
the scheme secret until the the com.
blnation was perfected. Oh the stool;
S6,75O,00O is to be cumulative 7 Der
cent. preferred, and the remaining
half common. The combination in.
cludes the National Tube Works, of
Boston, the largest company of the
kind in the world; the Republic Iron
Works, of Pittsburg, the Mononca
hela Furnace Company, of Pennsyl.
vania, and Boston Iron and Steel
Company. THOR business is the
manufacture and sale of lion and
steel pipes, tubes, muck bar, &c
Together they dominate the iron
business OF the country. Probably
the few other important concerns in
tho same line will be absorbed.
York World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
THE "ZONE-TARIFF."
How Railway Faros EIavo Boon
Groatly Tlcducod in Hungary.

recent number of the Century mag
azinc contains IN article on the system
recently adopted in hungary fer mini
flying and regulating the passenger
rates on railroads in that country. The
writer says:
For the method Of ballot reform
which is so widely adopted we are in
de5ted TO Australia; and now from
hungary VIC have I suggestion of re-
form in railway management which
promises to revoiutionize the passenger
business.
The "Zonc-tariff," as it is called. was
put in operation in hungary on the LIST
OF August, 1889. 1t has, therefore, but
brief experience to justify its praeti-
cability; but the results thus far have
been SO remarkable that it's success
seems to be assured. The method con-
sists of division Of the territory of
Hungary ipto fourteen conccniric zones.
Budapest, the capital, being the center.
The first zono includes all stations
within IS llilometcrs-l6i< Inilcs-irom
the center: the second, all more than Is
and less than so; all the Genes cxccD.
the first, the twelfth and the thirteenth
are ID kilonctcrs, or IL little more tam
miles Ill width; the three named arc
% llilomctcrs in breadth, and the Jour
teen includes ali stations more than a.,j
Illometcrs from the capital. The fare
IS regulated by the number of zones
which the traveller enters or crosses
during his journey. Reducing guldcns
to cents, the rate is 90, 16 and 10 cents
per zone, for first, second and third-class
passengers, respectively. If one starts
from budapest and crosses three zones
he travels, therefore, So lzilomcters, or
about 81 miles; il he goes frst-class, his
fare will lie so cents; if sccond-class, As
cents; if third-class, 80 cents.
For local traffic, when the traveller
docs not cross the boundary OF any zone.
there are special rates; if he goes only
to the nearest station, the charges will
be IL, g. and cents; il to the second
station from hisstartinS-point, l6, ., and
& cents, Is to the third station, the full
rates OF the zone arc charged.
The greatest reduction, however. is
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
Newspaper Laws.

Below we give the Uniled States
postal laws relating to the newspa.
pers and subscribers:
1. Subscribers who do not give ex-
press Office to the contrary are con.
sidcred as wishing to continue their
subscription.
2. II the Subscribers order the dis
continuance of their periodical tho
publisher may continue sending tholm
until oil arroaragcs are paid.
3. If Subscribers neglect or refuse
to tako their periodicals from tho of.
fico TO which they are directed they
arc held responsible until they havo
set 10 their bill and ordered them
discontinued.
4. Ii subscribers move to another
place aud fail to inform the publish
or, and the papers are sent to the
former direction, tn y are held re-
sponsiblo.
5. Any person who receives
newspaper and makes use of it,
whether ho ordered it or not, is held
in law to DO u subscriber.
6. If subscribers pay in advance,
they ale bound to give notice to tho
publishers ut tho end Of their time
if they do not wish to continue tax
ing it; otherwise the publisher is au-
thorizod to acud it on and the sub
scriber is responsible until express
notice with payment Of all arrears is
sent direct to tho publisher.
Z. The now postal amendment has
made it a ponal offenao to refuse to
pay for n newspaper and the sub
scriber may DO imprisoned for fraud.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
WHEN THE NEW WEARS OFF.

lilo was youth and she. maid,
Both happy, young and gay,
They lovcd-and life to Thorn wns fair
As one continuous Mny.
Tho ,r0aicrs saw this hunpincs
And said: An. love IL blind;
You're happy now, but care will como
When the now wears OH, you'll find"
They married. ana then their life grow rich
With cal:ncr, rircr icy;
They were M man AMI wife moro fond
Than when nS girl ani boy.
Their friends" could moi endure the sight.
And asia. with worldly Wit
: II will not be no bright ,.nd iino
Whom the now wears oil Bit
Nh. we'll the new wore on, Of course
And thc:;. what I'LL they fndr
An oldncss which was better for,
For lovo ~ not 80 blind
As selfish care; and loving hearts
New joys viii always meet,
So. when the new wears OF, they'll nnd
OLD love the moro complete.
Myrtle X. Clergyman, in Detroit Free Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
Clinch Valley News.
FRIDAY, SEPT. Is, 1881.
THE REVIVAL In SPEOULA.
LION.

A Simultaneous advance in the
prices Of grain and OF stocks. such rs
is now under way, is rnro enough to
be notable. The world has beon
nothing Of this sort before in
recent years. Ordinarily when wheat
or corn goes up in prico rail
way shares go down. Generally
when stocks arc booming grain is
depressed. But now that there il o
bull market for both at the same
time it would not 90 correct to say
that this condition of things is un-
warranted by the actual conditions.
Tho fact is, the situation il alto
gether different from what it has
been ct any time before in the past
nine or ten years. Usually high
grain prices are mark Of short
domestic crop, and this mons n fail
ing off i'll traffic for tho railroads,
which, in turn, deprcsses stocks;
while largo crop, which generally
means low prices, means at the same
time increased work for tho roads,
and n greater value for their sccuri.
ties. This year, however, the could
tons arc changed, aud this see saw
relation between the stock and grain
market is broken. Tbs heavy crop
in this country is coincitent with
such light one abroad chat ready
sale for our surplus at high prices
and extra work and greater earning
power for the railroads are assured.
There are some Indications That
we are on the owe OF an ern of specu
lntive activity almost as marked and
extensive rs that which SGT in about
the time that specie payments were
resumed twelve or thiltccn years
ngo. After period Of liquidation,
which, however, was fnr longer thnn
than 1t has been now, good crops hero
and poor ones in Europe sont the to
tai Of our expectations ut that time
up sharply aud started gold move
ment i'll that direction, which gave
the country confidence in the Gov
ernment's ability to maintain specie
payrnents. For two or three years
then, general trade was more active
than had been known previously
Apparently the country is GU the
eve of another period of business ex-
tension and divorsiiication. Spocu
lation and national prosperity H. i.oi
always go han, IA hand; but ordina
--i!y,~whon tho latter is present the
other prevails. 1t would bo easy,
though, for the spectators to form
higher notions of their privileges
and chances than the lncts justify,
and thus prevent the transactions on
which their own fortune depends.
Any artificial pushing upwards of
grain prices here would assuredly
lessen expectation by compelling Eu-
rope to seek some cheaper food than
wheat, and thus keep much of our
heavy surplus on our hands until
next year, when the homo crop may
be heavy enough to nuke the Old
World less dependent on us for it's
supplies.-St. Louis Globe Demo
crat.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
TIE FIRSr STEP

Perhaps you arc run down, can't
cat, can't sleep, can't think, can't do
anything to your satisfaction, and
you wonder what ails you. You
should heed tho warning, you are
taking tho first step into Nervous
Prostitution. You need Nerve
Tonic and in Electric Bitters YOU
will find tho exact remedy for re-
storing your nervous System to it's
normal, healthy condition. Surpris-
ing results follow the use of this
us t;;reat Nerve Tome and Altera-
tive. Your appetite returns, good
digestion is restored, and the Livor
and Kidneys resume healthy action.
Try bottle. Price SOC. at A. T..
Hargrave's Drugstore.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
PROFITABLE EXPERIMENTS
IN GROWING POTATOES

The potato is SO widely cultivat I'D
doubtless many will be interested in
the result of the following expert
ments relating to tho influence of the
quality OF the seed used upon the
esrliness and productiveness of the
crop.
The following test was made by
the Ohio Experiment Station of three
qualities OF seed:
The seed of lot L consisted of lot
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
FOOD FOR SUCKLING COLTS.

Teach colts to eat such food as
will assist in growing tho bone, mus
Gle and frame, and this is easily done
when one has sweet skiln-milk in
which to mix the extra food. Bran
~ one OF the best foods to grow good
muscle and sound, springy bono In
duce colts to eat q littlo bran with n
few oats mixed in. which is easily
done if tho colts mo two or three
months old. You will also find a
little flaxsoed jelly, made by boiling
fiaxseed fifteen or twenty minutes in
eight times its bulk of water, to rs.
sist materially in the growth of colts.
When the colt learns to eat faxseed
jelly, 1t usually becomes fond of it
Begin by taking handful of bran
and handful of oats and mixing two
tablespoonfula of the tlnxseed Jelly
with it and getting the colts to emf
this once day ut first, and thou, uf-
tor n week or ton days, giving this
amount twice day. Perhaps it
would be az well to tcnch the colts
first to take tho bran and oats, then
adding the jolly. If this plan is
skillfully carried out, increasing tho
food ns the colts increase in size, the
growth of the colts will be even and
rapid. The fiaxseed should not be
omitted, aa it will materially assist in
keeping tho digestive organs in q
healthy condition, and in giving a
fine development to the whole form.
Southern Live Stock journal.