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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-08
Notice to tax Paxers,

All state and county taxes, become
delinquent April Ist. Taxpayers are here
by requested topay the same before that
date in order to avoid going on the de-
linquent list. The county court has
ordered the sale of all property in which
the taxes have not been paid. Please
call and settle before the time mentioned
and save costs. D. L. GATES,
Sheriff of Wasco County
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-08
Notice.

Having leased the Mount Hood hotel
at Hood River, would respectfully call
the attention of the travelling public to
the fact that the house is being thorough
ly renovated and will be open for the re-
ception of guests on or about Nav 1st,
and would most respectfully solicit
share of the public patronage. Nothing
will be overlooked for the comfort Of
guests. GEORGE HERBERT.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-08

Reciprocity has already become so
popular that the admirers of President
Harrison have been digging up some of
his old campaign speeches delivered be-
fore his election in 1888, in which he out
lined the policy of reciprocity that has
since been Incorporated in the Mckinley
hill
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-08
FOR SALE.

A choice lot of brood mares; also a
number of geldings and illies by Crock
wood Jr. Planter, ""Oregon Wilkes, %
and 'tIdaho Chief,' same standard bred.
lockwood Jr.'' out of first class mares.
= For prices and terms call on or address
either j. w. Condor, or ]. H. Larsen,
The Dalles, Oregon.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-08
Merfno sheen for sale.

have a fine band of thorough bred
Merino sheep consisting of 81 bucks
about $40 ewes and about 200 young
lambs, which will sell at low price
and upon easy terms. Address,
d. M. FRENCH,
The Dalles. Or.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-08

Prof. French, writing to VIM. Holder
relative to the programme of the
Farmers Institute to be held here on the
18th and 14th, says it is the best pro-
gramme that has been compiled for any
OF the Institutes he has attended in Ore
gon so far.-Wasco Observer
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-08
STATE OFFICIALS.

The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-08
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

TNHE PARTNERSHIP OF BILLS L. WHYERV
y is this day dissolved by mutual consent
The business will in the future be conducted 81
N. B. Whyers who will pay and coIleet ali parE
nership debts go 1BIrTs
Dated April 14th, 1891. b. WHYERs
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-08
$50 REV ARD.

WILL BE PAID FOR ANY INFORMATION
w leading to the conviction of parties cutting
the ropes or In any way interfering with the
wires poles OF lamps of TIE ELECTRIC LIGHT
Co. n. GLENN
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-08
Stock Strayed.

Three 3-year-old fillies-(2 sorrels and
one bay,) two 2-year-olds (both bays) all
branded 1 on the left shoulder I will
give $5 apiece for the recovery of the
same. j. w. ROGERS.
= Boyd. Or.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-08
To the Public.

Notice is hereby given that all the
barber shops of The Dalles will be closed
in future on Sundays. n
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-08
City Treasurer's Notice.

ALI City Warrants registered prior to
July 6, 1889 are now due and payable.
Interest ceases on and after date.
J. s. FISH.
February z, 1891. City Treas.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-08
Horsemen Attention.

The spring rodero for horses will meet
at Bake Oven on the first day of May.
r. BooTEN,
CHAs. w. HAIGHT,
J. N. BURGESS.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-08

Baby is sick.-The woeful expression
of Des Moines teamster's countenance
showed his deep anxiety was not entire
ly without cause, when he inquired of a
druggist of the same city what was best
to give baby for cold? 1t was not ne
cessary for him to say more, his counte-
nance showed that the pet of the family,
if not the idol of his life was in distress.
sfWe give our baby Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy" was the druggists answer.
ST don't like to give the baby such strong
medicine" said the teamster. You know
John Oleson, of the Waters Talbot Print
ing Co., don't you? inquired the drug
gist. His baby, when eighteen months
old, got hold of bottle of Chamberlain s
Cough Remedy and drank the whole of
it. OF course it made the baby vomit
very freely but did not injure it in the
least, and what is more, it cured the ba-
by's cold. The teamster already knew
the value of the Remedy, having used it
Himself, and was now satisfied that there
was no danger in giving it even to a
baby. For sale by Snipes & Kinersly.
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$500 Reward!

We will pay the above reward for any case o
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, In
digestion, Constipation or Costiveness we canno
cure with Vests Vegetable Liver Pills, when TIL
directions are strictly complied with. They an
ton. Sugar Coated. Large boxes Containing q
Pills, % cents Beware of counterfeits and inii
tat1ons. The genuine manufactured only bl
THE JOHN C. WFST COMPANY, CHIGAGG
ILLINOIS.
BLAKELEY q HOUGHTON
Prescription Druggists,
I75 Second st. The DalIes, OI
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THE FISH Commission.
A Salmon Hatchery to be Located on
the Upper Columbia.

A Salmon Hatchery to be Located on
the Upper Columbia.
The Oregonian.
EState Fish Commissioners Reed and
Myers visited the Clackamas hatchery a
day or two since and found that all the
young fry had been turned out. They
visited points ON the Clackamas and
Willamette rivers and made investiga-
tions to find out if any fishing was being
done illegally on Saturday night and
Sunday. They found that the fishermen
in some places had been doing things
they should not have been guilty Of
These fishermen are very sly, but they
need not be .astonished if the state fund
is increased by the fines that will surely
follow illegal fishing. The commission
ers find that the promises of the owners
of sawmills, pulp mills and excelsior
factories in regard to keeping waste out
of the rivers, have not been kept. 1t is
not the intention of the commissioners
to infiict anv annoyance or expense on
the people who violate the laws unin-
tentially, and they therefore give every
body fair warming, and if no heed is taken
the consequence will be that violators of
the law must suffer. Fish Commission
er Crawford, of Washington, has invited
the Oregon state fish commissioners to
assist him in locating salmon hatchery
on the upper Columbia, for which an
appropriation was made by the Wash
ington legislature. The party will leave
Vancouver about the 18th inst. and will
be accompanied by the superintendent of
the Clackamas hatchery.
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feasts, OF which the most prominent con-
tinued during the twelve days from Dec.
IS to Jan. 6.
Many of our most familiar Christmas
usages are derived from the old heathen
festivals which Christmas replaced. The
custom of giving Christmas presents, now
SO universally observed, was derived from
the old Roman saturnalia, or feast of
Saturn, above mentioned, at which it was
customary for all the members of house
hold to offer gifts to each other. 1t is not
traceable, as has been sometimes ignor-
antly stated, to the New Testament ac-
count of how kings and wise men made
rich offerings to the Infant Jesus.
The yule clog or log the great stick
of timber placed in olden times upon the
Christmas hre-was derived from the
Saxon feast of Jul or Yul, at which SINH
lar piece OF timber gave the principal fire
and the principal light. The yule clog
and the superstitions connected with it
are among the most venerable of Christ
mas associations The yule clogs that
blazed in the vast halls OF the old English
feudal barons of the middle ages were
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whose birth it commemorated, the church
sought to replace. these heather festivi-
ties and to lift up the minds Of the people
to something higher and holier, though
from the first the day was regarded both
as holy commemoration of most sa-
cred event and as mirthful, joyous festi-
val. In the middle ages the festive OBJ
servances of the day often so far over
topped its more sacred features that the
clergy we're frequently compelled to
check the unseemly merriment of their
flocks. The name of Christmas assigned
to the festival was derived from Christ
and the Saxon maesse or mass, and the
two words were combined to denote a
special service in honor of the birth of the
Son of God.
Probably one of the most generally
known of the old Christmas obseryances,
next to the giving Of presents, is the sing
ing of the Christmas carols. These we're
pious canticles designed to replace the
ribald songs of the old heather festivals,
and the custom Of children, and even
grown people, going about from house to
house singing them at the door on Christ
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1899, during the reign of Henry III.
The marriage of the Kings daughter, the
Princess Margaret, with Alexander, King
of the Scots, took place on that Christ
mas Day. The Archbishop of York gave
600 tat oxen and 62,7oo toward the ex-
pense. In the year I24S this same Henry
III. filled Westminster Hall with poor
people, and feasted them royalty at his
expense throughout the whole Of Christ
mas week.
That royal old Blue Beard, Henry
WILL, well understood the noble art Of
keeping Christmas. He usually cele-
brated it at Greenwich and Richmond
| with the most elaborate entertainments,
such as Mosques and tournaments. The
cloth OF gold for one of these occasions
cost 10000.
| In the primitive church Christmas Day
was preceded by an eve OF vigil, and
hence our Christmas Eve of the present
time, which in the associations that clus-
ter around it, in its sports and pastimes,
its ancient memories, and even in its de-
votions, has ever been in all ages second
only to Christmas itself.
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Gold wrought in all strange charactery and
gems
Their housings caught the ray.
And with them, and before them, the great
Star,
That up the eastern coasts,
Outstrippne comets and white-bearded oFbs.
Came leading heavens hosts.
While all black art of dark astrology.
With ncantations gray
That signs and zodacs trembled to regard.
! Showed where the young child lay
The young child, who, not yet fortnight DID,
| Among the oxen slept,
Where angels hung upon dropping wing.
And all the sweet watch kept
Chiefs of old heathenry, how long, how far.
They journeyed on their quest!
What tribute and what treasure did they bring
To greet the holy guest?
What costly travel and what toilsome march
Were theirs, too-that great press
Which followed on the way the Magi led
Up from the wilderness!
But we on whom for twice thousand years
The Star in the East has shone--
What hard road do we tread with tender feet
To make the truth our own?
UP from what deserts do we hotly spur
To consecrate our King?
To God, in Christ or in Humanity,
What tribute do we bring2
We look on the immensty of space.
And count all creeds song;
Welet the dungeoned prisoner write in blood
The story of his wrong.
Brief empery, that with the bubble breaks,
With the rose falls! whose slaves
Shall revel then but with the loathly worm
And the dark fruit of graves!
Dart forth your white and awful light, o Stars
Wither this King to drossl
Lead us path like that once trod the feet
Were nailed upon a cross
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mas time? Time turns backward in its
| flight at your ringing sound, and again as
child we welcome the Christmas s-tide.
| The stars glitter and the earth is glori-
fed, and the lights throw long, bright
rays on the snowy path, and the mothers
face is pressed to the window-pane to
catch the first glimpse Of her loved, long
absent ones.
| Joy to the mother, they are here! and
thy aged heart is full of sweet peace.
Surely Heaven is nearer to earth for
| thee.
christmas Eve!" The wondrous Santa
Claus comes to the children with thee.
What visions of dolls, games, books, can
dies, and all sorts of goodies; drums,
trumpets, whistles, with all sorts. of
squeaks and discordant blasts; and the
| wonderful Christmas tree with itsbrilliant
lights, gay colors, and mysterious pack
ages, some of which may contain the
long -wished-for skates or huge jack
kDlNCSs II 10 dIl Gii(IdlILhSht1 GAL HtN
color of the rose, the rainbow that spans
their young lives. Not all the agony in
the manger, all the wonder of the story
of the Star of Bethlehem, Of the follow
ing and guiding of the wise men to the
lowly cradle Of the coming King; not
all the sad beauty of the old, old story
can fully satisfy the juvenile heart like
these. But arewe not children of larger
growth?
In spite of the solemnity of the occa-
sion, in spite of its deep and tender
meaning, the gifts and goodies and mer-
rymaking are all dear to us, children in
heart as we are. Then ring out merry
Christmas chimes, fill the air with your
joyous music.
Sound the glad tidings
Messiah is King"
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DEMOCRATIC NORTHWEST HOLIDAY SOUVENIR, 1891.

mas Eve and being rewarded with Christ
mas cheer and Christmas spendingmoney
is maintained in many parts of England
even at the present day.
The manner in which Christmas is cell
ebrated at the present time seems very
poor and mean in comparison with the
olden time observance of it. The old
English sovereigns set an example in this
regard which their successors of later
days would do well to follow. One of the
most elaborate celebrations of Christmas
that ever took place occurred in the year
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and lost, death and misfortune were
thought sure to follow.

and lost, death and misfortune were
thought sure to follow.
The custom of decorating churches,
dwellings and places Of business with
evergreens, holly, laurel, bays and mistle-
toe at the Christmas season has also a
heathen origin, being perpetuation of
an observance of the old British Druids,
whose belief it was that kindly sylvan
spirits sought these ornaments of living
green and hovered near them, untouched
and unharmed by nipping frost, until the
death of the winter.
Those same old Druids attached much
Importance to the mistletoe, investing it
with peculiarly hallowed and mystic
character. They regarded it as an en-
blem of love and believed that it typifed
the benefcent feelings of their gods to-
ward mankind. 1t is doubtless to this
old Druidical association Of the mistletoe
with love that the English custom, which
still obtains, OF enforcing the forfeit of a
kiss from any female who is caught un-
der branch of it at Christmas time is
traceable.
We are also indebted to the Druids for
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as the night before All Saints Day, or
Hallow Fen, thus showing the desire of
the early fathers of the church to make
the heather converts to Christianity feel
that they had lost nothing in harmless
pleasure and enjoyment by the substitu-
ton of the Christian festival for the
heather one.
Not only did the Romans observe this
period of the year as time of mirth and
rejoicing. The ancient Celtic and Ger
manic races did the same. The Germans
especially, were accustomed to hold great
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huge trees, and we are told that even just
before the close of the last century the
mansion of an English gentleman resid-
ing near Shrewsburywas totally destroyed
by fire in consequence of two large yule
log having been lighted on his hearth
stone. When the yule log was not all
consumed before dawn and burned on
into the light of Christmas Day, its ashes
were carefully preserved until the next
Christmas eve, and we're believed 10
bring good health and fortune to all the
household, but should they be scattered
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Savior's nativity. The statement that
the date was preserved in the public
archives at Rome, though asserted by
some of the early fathers, is not now gen.
orally credited. AS to the year prepon-
derance of opinion and of such evidence
as we have seem to favor that of a or 5
B. c. AS to the month, December is the
height of the rainy season in Judea, and
therefore the fact, as stated by the New
Testament, that shepherds were watch
ing their focks on its plains, while stars
were shining in the heavens on the night
of the Savior's birth, make it extremely
unlikely that it could have occurred in
that month. Many learned treatises
have been written and plausible argu-
ments advanced to prove that it must
have taken place in October, but the
question will ever remain in abeyance.
For the first three centuries Christmas
was one of the most movable of all re-
ligious festivals. The Eastern church
observed the 9th of January as the ami
versary both of Christ's birth and circum-
cision. But in the fourth century Pope
Julius I. ordered an investigation of the
matter, and, after long deliberation, the
theologians Of both the East and West
united in appointing Dec. IS to be
kept as Christ's birthday. 1t seems not
improbable that in selecting Dec. IS as
the date of the greatest event, save one
the cruci6xion-in the worlds history
the worthy fathers were influenced by a
desire to supplant the many heather fes-
tivals Of the winters solstice, such as the
saturnalia, or great festival of Saturn and
Ops, which began on the 10Th of Decem-
Der Tor after Casar's reformation of the
calendar on the I7th), and continued fol
seven days. This presumption is made
more probable from the fact that fol
many centuries the festivities of Christ.
mas were prolonged till twelfth night
Jan. s, and even till Candlemas Day
Feb. 2, while they usually began as earl,
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the Christmas game of "snap dragon"
which is played, as every one knows, by
trying to snatch raisins from blazing
brandy in an otherwise dark room. But
probably few of those who have played it
are aware that the old Druids we're ac-
customed to worship fame of burning
spirits, into which they cast and from out
of which they plucked certain objects.
BY the celebration of Christmas, with its
grand litury, its magnificent music, and
its pictorial and dramatic representations
of the principal events in the life of Him
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Thy son doth bless with holier kissi
Thy breath grander theme doth hymni
Thy wings do close the black abyss
OF evil, and no longer dim
Are valleys of eternal peace.
SOr land where its own restores,
But skies uncurtained show increase
OF glory on thy crystal shores!
And thou dost light for me again
The yule-og on the homestead hearth.
The graves where long the dead have lain
Do open, as vernal garth,
And bloom for me once more the loves
That roseate made my youthful days;
Within thy freight lives and moves
My mother, haloed with the rays
Of Paradise, and as her twin
Lips with the olden fondlings part.
And l. enraptured, cuddle in
The velvet haven of her heart,
see the pail of doubt unfold.
And on the pathway OF the sun
Gods finger writes in lines of gold
The words, "For Home and Heaven are
onel"
Then, too, thy chimney glow reveals
My father face; the old armchair
Is his again, and Lulu knecls
Beside him with her Christmas prayer;
The sweet-vofced pleadings uttered are,
And grandpa's lips do part to say,
Thank God the gates are all ajar
'Twixt Home and Heaven on Christmas
Day!"
Then, welcome, day Of days! Thy dawn
Is vibrant with familiar tones,
The veil that dims our sight is drawn,
The farther shore thy sunlight zones.
No growth of skeptic fancy now
Our faith in glad reunion leavens,
For tbs engrayen on thy brow
That Heaven is Homes, and Home is
Heavensl
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THE KING OF DAYS.
Christmas Day and the Origin of Many
Christmas Observances.

HE birthday of the
Savior of mankind
has been celebrated
for the seventeen
hundred and ninety
fourth time, includ-
ing the Christmas
observance of 1891.
We have no means
of determining the
exact date Of the
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CHRISTMAS CAROL.

Fill All the Land with Melody and Let
Heaven Come Nearer to Earth.
Ring out, sweet chimes! Ring clear
and loud! Peal forth, sweet. Christmas
bells. Tell us the old, old story again:
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"Glory to God and
good will towar {
men,"
Fill all the lane
with your melod,
sweet, and let Heav'
en- come nearer tt
earth on this gooc
Christmas time. Il
there a heart not il
unison with YOU
music. dear Christ.
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THE STAR IN THE EAST.

ROM hoary kingdoms
of all ancienlness,
Led by a Star they
came
A Star that dimmed the
lutser of the heav-
ems.
Shaking their fleece
of flame!
A splendid caravan.
from desert depths
They flashed their
rOunl uyatr.
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WELCOME CHRISTMAS.

HRICE welcome, day
of daysl The skies
Do wide their gates at
thy command
An d Heavens sublim-
, est symphonies
! Roll grandly over Sc a
and land.
The dews Of charity dis
till
Their incense every
where. and comes
A universal joy to fill
The e highest and the
humblcst homes.