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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-04-15
For One Dollar Per Week

A Handsome Antique Chamber Set,
cheval glass to dressing case, combina.
ton eommode, chairs, rocker, table
and towel rack. This set is nicely carved
and well finished. S25 is the price.
Terms S5 down, 81 per week.
We offer you a s45 Sewing Machine
for S2s. II it is not as good as the ma
chine agents are selling at S45 we don't
want you to keep it. One dollar a week
buys it, and only S. down.
Agents would ask you S35 or $40 Il
you paid spot cash. We save you 81
on the price and yet give these easy
terms. Buy before the price goes up
We are only selling at s2S to advertise
our machines.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-04-15
For One Dollar per Week

We can fill you parlor with as handsome
a Plush Suit as anyone wants. Six
pieces-Sofa. Divan, Gents Arm Chair
Ladies' Platform Rocker and Recep
ton Chairs. Fine quality plush, wal
nut, cherry or XVI century frames,
silk trimmed. These suits are made for
wear as well as to look at. We guaran-
tee every one perfect. Five dollars
first payment, balance 81 per week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-04-15
BLACK SILK warp ngIRIEffls.

lot AZ inch, Black Silk Warp Henriettas inn
porter's price $3.50, at 81 90 per yard. l lot
Double Width Coiored Briiliantines, worth BE,
at &c. per yard. / Lot Fancy Novelty Sutings,
importers price sl,25, at 75c. per yard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-04-15

how much you look around you cannot find on
the kennebee more superior stock nor better
fitting garments at Reliable Low Prices. than
ours.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20
Is Disease a Punishment9

The following advertisement, published
by prominent western patent medicine
house would indicate that they regard
disease as a punishment for sin
"Do you wish to know the quickest
way to cure sever cold? We will tell
you. To cure a cold qickly, it must be
treated before the cold has become set
tied in the system. This can always be
done if you choose to, as nature in her
kindness to man gives timely warning
and plainly tells you in natures way,
that as punishment for some indiscre-
ton, you are to be afflicted with a cold
unless you choose to ward it off by
prompt action. The first symptoms of a
cold, in most cases, is dry, loud cough
and sneezing. The cough is soon followed
by profuse watery expectoration and
the sneezing by prosuse watery dis
charge from the nose. In severe cases
there is thin white coating on the
tongue. What to do? 1t is only necessary
to take Chamberlain Cough Remedy in
double doses every hour. That will greatly
lessen the severity of the cold and in
most cases will effectually counteract it,
and cure what would have been a severe
cold within one or two days time Try it
and be convinced" Fifty cent bottles for
sale by Snipes & Kinersley, druggists.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20

''The city will not be able to inaugu.
rate purely gravity system until it has
from 10000 to 25,0O0 population, and
even then this will depend upon the de.
clssion of the council and water commits.
sion. Times Mountaineer.
This is another specimen of "dia-
phonous" nonsense. Why we have a
gravity system now-always had grav.
ity system since the water of Mill creek
were first piped into the city. The
CHRONICLE wonders if Mr.. Michel is as
much off on the meaning of the word
gravity" as he is on the word ''dia-
phonous." Will it require decision Of
the city conncil to make water run down
hill?
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20
DLAPHANOUS BOSH.

The organ of the ten mossbacks who
voted "No" week ago today, was in his
happiest mood last Saturday evening.
He poured forth perfect torrent of his
torical, literary, scientific, legal, etymo-
logical, hydraulic, antiquarian, geo.
graphical, riparian. Partingtonian wit
and humor, SO completely overwhelming
that we have not ceased for four and
twenty hours to bestow our benisons on
a merciful providence that has reduced
the price of Webster's dictionary to three
dollars and half. Referring to the ar
gument of the CHRONICLE on the charter
bill, Mr.. Michel gives us the following
sample of TImes-Mountaineer rhetoric:
The arguments in its favor were ex-
tremely diaphanous, and did not follow
the simplest rule of logic or contain the
least element of analytical or synthetical
reasoning.
Heaven help the readers of the Times
Moamtaineer. How thankful the public
should be that the "manuscripts'' were
burned, when without them the gentle
man is able to turn himself loose in that
style.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20
Old and Young Great Men.

Great as have been some men who died
young, who knows how much greater
they would have been had their lives
been prolonged. Might not Marlowe
have rivaled Shakespeare? Yet possibly
Byron had already given us his best,
and Shelley and Keats might not have
surpassed their early efforts
Had the author of 'sFestus' died at %
there would have been lamentation as
over Keats, but Bailey has lived half a
century longer without producing sec
ond poem. Tasso, though he lived twen-
ty years after Jerusalem Delivered, "
never equaled that epic, written at 81.
Still there are men whose longevity
has certainly stood for much. Michael
Angelo showed astonishing precocity
but he owes to his eighty-nine years his
great renown as painter, sculptor and
sonneteer. Voltaire's fame, again, rests
on the entirety of his writings, not on
any single work, and the literary dicta-
torship with which age invested him.
Cut off twenty years of his life, and his
fame would perceptbly shrink. Goethe,
Emerson, Carlyle, Longfellow, Tenny-
son, Hugo, Dumas-a1 had the advan-
tage of fullness. of years, so as to be
judged by bulk as well as quality. Hum
boldt, too, owed to his ninety years a
portion of his reputation.
The true comparison would obviously
be between works produced at the same
age, or between men dying at about the
same age, but it is much easier to test
achievement than capacity. Perhaps the
best books Gin posse) have never been
written, and we often feel that the men
were greater than their works. Who
knows, moreover, what geniuses have
died in Observation-Disclosures Monthly.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20
LEAVING SICK eeHINr.
stauley's Column Are Obliged to Desert
Their Dying Comrades.

Stanley's Column Are Obliged to Desert
Their Dying Comrades.
EARLY next morning Stanley started off
with his company, promising to clear a
path as well as he could in order to en-
able us to carry the boat sections through
the thick undergrowth. Stairs, Parke
and then made careful examination
of the men and loads, and found that we
should be obliged to leave fifty-six men
and eighty-one loads behind. Many of
the men were so cowed and hopeless that
they wished only to be left to die peace
fully where they were.
But any man who was at all able to
crawl along we passed as fit to travel,
and those fifty-six men we left were near
ly all in the last stage of starvation and
sickness. At any rate, we thought that
their chances of getting food would be
better if they came with us, and nothing
could be gained by remaining where they
were.
We had great difficulty in getting the
men off with the loads, and it was past
midday before the last of the caravan
filed out of what is now known as Mel
sons starvation camp. I find the fol-
lowing words in my journal that morn
ing:
sit is truly terrible position for Mel
son to be left in; he has food only for
three days, and viii have to exist on
what he can pick up in the shape of
fungi or roots. Stairs has left him a
fish hook and line, and it is possible he
may get a few small fish, but the river is
so rapid and full of powders that he has
but slight chance of catching any
thing.
Meantime we are going on with an
exhausted and starving column to try
and find food in trackless wilderness.
Nelson is now so crippled from ulcers
that he cannot creep far from camp, and
will have to depend entirely upon what
his two boys can manage to bring him.
"We got off about two o'clock, and
sadly said goodby to poor old Nelson.
for his position is very precarious and
our chances of relieving him small; he
has worked with us in good fellowship
all these months, and now we are prac-
tically abandoning him."-A. J. Noun
teney Jephson in Scribner's.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20
Old Butter.

1t is matter of wonderment to many
what becomes of the tons upon tons of
dairy butter piled up year after year in
the wholesale grocery stores and com
mission houses of our cities, and which
the average American would not allow
on his table. ''The poorer the butter
the further it goes" said large butter
dealer of this city, as he packed rolls and
prints of various colors and sizes in a
sugar barrel lined with butter cloths.
THAT expresses it in more ways than
one. Good butter always finds a ready
market here at home; it never goes beg
ging for buyers at any time of the year,
but packing grade goes to the end of the
earth. The contents of this barrel will
go to South America"
'.Not just as it iss'
'tNo; it will undergo manipulation.
The firm to whom this is to be shipped
melt down this grade of butter and pack
it in glass jars. By the time it reaches
South American port it is of about the
same consistency as olive oil. The South
Americans use it on their bread as we
use butter. A large proportion of pack
ing stock shipped from the northwest
goes ultimately to European countries. "
North West Trade.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20
STRANGE SOUTHERN BIRDS.
Sam Hopkins Describes Some Denizens of
the Virginia Backwoods-

Sam Hopkins Describes Some Denizens OF
the Virginia Backwoods.
"Didn' yo' never hyar bout elpen-
strechersT asked Sam Hopkins the other
day.
Sam is little colored chap that runs
errands and makes himself generally
useful about an uptown hotel. He halls
from Charlottesville, Va, and what Sam
doesn't know about the Virginia woods
isn't worth knowing. Sam may trifie
on such an air of injured innocence when
any of his statements are doubted that
you are almost forced to believe him.
'Never hyard bout elpenstretchers?'
he again repeated. ''Why, they're the
curiusest birds in all Virginny. What
they's like? Why, bless yo' stars, they
amt like nothin' in these hyar parts.
Yo' kin only find 'em in the swamps back
o. Charf ftsville, in the spring time, too.
@sWhar they is in the summer? They
amt nowhar. They's jess frogs an liz
ards. Well, when yo' want fur to shoot
eapenstrechers yo' takes your gun an
goes out in the swamp at night. Yo'
see they burrows in the ground day
times an comes out at night to feed.
''They's hgger'n a quail, an most as
big as - Amt got no feathers
only log bristles, like a porkypine
They's as black as yo' hat, too, an looks
like young rooster with his feathers all
pulled out. Good to eat? Yes, Stree
Mos as good as 'possum. Yo' has to be
mighty keerful, too, for if a elpen-
strecher sticks yo' with one O. them ar
quills you's dead man, sartain sure. In
the summer time they changes into liz
ards an frogs They's jess the bigges'
frogs you ever see, too.
can yo' never hyard o. soras neither?
Well, sakes alivel Why, me an my
Cousin Bill killed mos a thousand of
'em in one night. Soras is jess like black
birds, only smaller
'All yo' has to do is to go in the woods
with a pitchwood light an long pole.
1 jess went out one night with a light
an pole, an Bill he held big bag. Jess
as fas' as I'd knock 'em off the him b
they'd fall in Bills bag. But they's
common all over Virginny
''Then they's the gingas cutus, big
germ nelephant, and the whangtdoodle
bird that flies aroun' nights and carries
off pigs and cattle. An say, mister,
they's got green bug down there mos
a foot high, am
''HoP on, sab! That amt half they's
got down there" Then, as I had turned
to leave, after expressing my incredulity,
Sam remarked, with an air of injured
innocence
'Well, eff it doan' jess beat me. These
hyar Yankees won bTieve nuthin less
they sees em."-New York Herald.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20
Maine No Longer the Pine Tree state.

Maine No Longer the Pine Tree State.
One of the pioneer lumbermen on the
Penobscot was Mr.. John Trickey, still
living in Bangor, at the age OF So years.
he went there on foot with pack on
his back and only $1.50 in his pocket in
1929. Today he is one of Bangor's
wealthy citizens. ''Times have changed, >
as they say, since Mr.. Trickey began his
operations. Maine was really the ..Pine
Tree State then. In eight years Mr..
Trickey cut 5000, 900 feet of pine on
Land that now constitutes the towns OF
Carmel, Kenduskeag and Levant, where
hardly a pine is to be seen At that
time there were no roads, and all the
provisions were taken up the river in
boats, special crews being employed for
that purpose. e.-Lewiston Journal.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20
A Smart RoY.

An ingenious Iowa youth tied thread
TO nickel, dropped the nickel in slot
machine, got what he wanted, then
withdrawing the nickel by the thread,
repeated the operation until he had
made clean sweep of the receptacle's
contents. He was arrested on charge OF
theft, but the judge who tried him held
that he had committed neither burglary
larceny or robbery, nor even obtained
property under false pretences. He had
merely done what the inscription on the
machine told him to do-dropa a nickle in
the slot-and he kept on doing it.
Nothing was said about leaving the coin
where It dropped.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20
The Reuieau makes the following ples

The Review makes the following plea
for the farmers alliance movement:
'tThe farmers alliance simply breathes
farmers know that things are somehow
wrong. They have been trying to solve
the puzzle. Doubtless their diagnosis of
society's diseases, and still more their
remedial formulas, are at some points
absurd. But they are honest and ear
nest, and in many of their views they
are clear headed and right. They have
at least made one grand discovery ;
namely, that they have been delegating
the business of government to politicians
and lawyers, and that if the interests of
the masses are jeopardized by the syndi-
Gates and monopolies and growingly
the people to cease electing to legislative
and executive posts the classes of men
most amenable to the influences of cor
porate wealth and power.
The western farmers believe that the
money powers has been robbing them
through an actual or relative contraction
OF the circulating medium and they be-
Iieve in free silver, if not in limit
less issues of irredeemable paper.
Far from wishing dishonesty to
scale down the mortgages on
their farms they desire only that
money should have normal purchasing
power. 1t is so easy to criticise the exr
travagance OF the accusations that these
reformers often make, and to point out
fallacies and heresies in their economic
creeds, that there is danger least the
east m y forget to note the advantage to
the country that can but accrue from
the aroused mental political and social
activity of the western farmers
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20
You May Be Lucky.

A New York statistician and financier
figures that out of 90, 900 men only 5000
will die worth over $40, 900, and only
5000 who can be called rich. He says
that 1900 men lose $4,000 and upward
per year, and that 9 900 men lose SIC, 900
each where one makes 800. OO0.-Detroit
Free Press
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20

Members of the farmers alliance have
organized company at Helix to handle
and ship their own grain in order to
make all the profit possible out of the
product of their farms. The company
has secured the Reese & Redman and
Robley platforms, and is making prepar-
ations to handle large amount OF grain.
East Oregonian.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20
Needed AN Airing.

Old Johnsing When 1 wor a young
fellow like yo', Sam, worn't so fond OBJ
ventilatin' my opinions as yo' are, sahl
Young Yallerby-Huhi don't won
dah you ventilates 'em now. Dizzy am
musty enough, suahl-Judge.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20

Owing to the great amount of snow
there is in the mountains, it is not ex-
pected that travel across the Cascades
will begin until the middle or last OF
May.-Ochoco Review.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20

Burns, since it was incorporated, has
been assuming city airs, and now pro-
poses to have daily paper, edited and
published by Mrs. D. L. Grace. Sue
cess to both the town and its daily paper.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20

Maud-Georg told me last night was
his little duck Ethel-He probably dis
covered you wern't chicken.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20

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, 1891-04-20
DISSOLUTION notice.

T>HE PARTNERSHIP OF BILLS & wHYERs
IL is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
The business will in the future be conducted by
N B. Whyers who will pay and collect all part
nership debts. g. Q. BILLS
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-20
$500 Reward!

We will pay the above reward for any case of
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, In
digestion, Constipation or Costiveness we cannot
cure with Vests Vegetable Liver Pills, when the
directions are strictly complied with. They are
purely vegetable, and never fail to give satisfac
ton Sugar Coated. Large boxes containing %
Pills, % cents. Beware of counterfeits and imi-
THE JOHN C. WFST COMPANY, CHIGAGQ1
ILLINOIS.
BLAKELEY g. HOUGHTON,
Prescription Druggists,
175 Second st. The DaiIes, Or.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-02-26
A Nswpoar lpIsooe.
An Es,arrIon Party That Took royss-
sisn Of a MiIllenafre's rinffa.

a
One Of the elf cottsecrs. ~ they are
called u Ncwpuft--the clin cottages beiug
the most costly and luxurious marine
villas In tho world-was said 20 have told
an amusing and suggestive story Of his
own experience
1t Is the iniacmofini right Of the public
In Rhode Island 10 have Acccss anywhere
10 the shore, that the right OF c,dyy one 10
the common property " the sea may not
he abridged. The BEAUTIFUL walk along the
elf, cxtcndiir through all the finest
estates In Newport between tho houses
and the shore. e due 10 this privilege. The
result Is not altogether agreeable tn the
proprictors, because the cxcuriion trains
and hnais arr constantly bringing crowds
u ioitefrfs and pleasure scckur who
choose for their lunch tho choice spots
along this promenade.
One day party u rural visitors arrived
on the cotiagcri grounds 10 lunch, and
not content 70 restrain their stspl 30 the
walk 20 which thor led a right, they con.
sirucd their rights freely. aud under the
guidance Of an elderly wandered over
the lawn, aud approaching the house NJ
lunch time drew uaar. asc0ndcIl the broad
seward plaza, aud dlsposing Themselves
upon the chairs and s1ins. sprrad their
lunch upon the piazza tables aud made
ready for the rtpast
The owner. who from within had
watched The proceedings with SONS per.
turiation " spirits, then nppcnrnl. In a
highly imperative mood, upon tho paEz,.
aud addressing hlmlelf TO tho elderly
dame, who was evidently the commander
~ chief 81 the mamudefs, said. with OK.
treincly strained politencss, that stnngcri
had nn unioulHo,i right 20 walk nlong the
clln, but TINT he had right io his house
and his piazza aud his tables and sofas
and ohair-, and bee should bc exceedingly
obliged II they would retire Immediately.
A. he spoke he confronted the iniruders
with threatening severity Of aspect But
the general commanding turned upon
him her benevolent spectacle, and said
with the suayity Of an honest prandmoih.
cr. why, Law you wouldn't turn VA on.
would ycl Snkrs aliscl yod Is welcome
20 eat your lunch on the piazza, or In The
house, or anywhere you pleased, mp Uut
way" Aud she LEANED upon him with
such b,nipnlty that, wholly unprcparcl
for sunbnrst instead Of a storm, he was
spccehlcss, aud greatly amused withdrew
from q Q ilcld.-Gcorgs William Curtis in
Hnrncf'H
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-02-26

Shall we have n Siberia 10 which 10
transport American long torn cFiminale
Most civilized nations have penal col
onios In somo part Of their out OF the
way roiscssions. In Australia some Of
tho most wealthy and influential clii.
scns of the present are descended from
conyincts who, generations ago, loft
their country for their oouniry's gooi
and grew into tho stature Of manhood In
tho free, wild continent that man hal
not VT contaminated. They shook oil
forever tho sha1kles Of crime and dis
grace that had held them, settled down
10 sheep herdiny or mining, and became
NJ good "a anybody IN tho estimation oi
the community. and much richer than
most respectable ci,iz,ns in tho oil conn.
tries nv. In . region where anybolya
anteccdcnta might be- shady I, was not
wise 10 inquire into tnch matters, no too
many questions were not asked whom a
fnnily became candidates for social
recognition.
ohAll VIC nave huch y colony IN Alaska
for American long term conviota The
question Ia being agitaiel now by mem.
bcri Of the Prison Reform association.
In Alaska the criminals may work oa.
their sentences developing Ga, mineral
resources OF the territory. They will be
80 far away that this labor cannot come
into competition with that Of FREQ work.
men. !. IS the Ont step toward making
a man Of a criminal TO give him reguls.'
habits Of work. The United States has
mover before NEEDED colony like that
In consideration, but We have apparent.
ly come 20 that point now. with our jail,
AMI psnitentlarlss OVERLOOKING with lille.
restless oonyicts.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-02-26

no <,tlas sun Ia. drop, h.i1s ths sandy rearhi
Tho hggnri ruoss conc home. heia'ed, from tho
bach.
Her, "a ibo garden beds thu no~ens eiose their
eye,
And tvilishts .o', van mist ssfor the woodland
iss
Oh, Is no, this most sweet ~ any Tine Or hour.
Afier the Farish day. and cro The night cloud,
loucIf
Ts a. iheagh natures sii should pause upon
her way.
Gray clad AMI pilgrim like. 10 nrihaie aud pray.
s-Frchanre
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-02-26
CONN BROS.
On TU ESDAY, February 24th.
%GREHTESTt SHhE<
M USLIN UNDERWEAR
EVER KNOWN IN THE CITY.
CONSIST
-Four. Special Lots
At s5c, zoe, zee. and Sf.oo respectively.

LOT I. mt n5c., will Include n large and wo-solectod
assortment Embroidered Laco.Trimmod Chemiso,
Foahor Stchod Trimmed Tucked and FrIlod
childrons Waists Chidren's Tucked and Embroidered
Drawers, Long Short Embroidered Dresses. High
Low Corset Covers In all sizes
LOT -. at soc. will Include all tho styles mentioned In
Lot !, only mado OF much finer materials.
LOT 81 mt T5c., will bo tho most rom arka-
BILE limo Of Underwear offered tho
viii include all tho latest designs Rufflod and
Embroidered Goods OF ovory description
LOT - mt ssI.oO. consider tho porfoct OF
goods In put solo They
by tho bost known
ss- Ono special feature wish to call your attention
Is that all OF those worry
Of cambria and Fruit OF the Loom Muslin.
We cordially invite your inspection.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-02-26

One thing has become clear to the pol
iticians tho farmer,' organizations must
be recognized in thc distribution Of high
Offices or both tho Old parties will suffer.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-02-26
DTSERET EVENING NEWS.

Published every day ,tesr. sunday At ? M,
subscription lriss. In ad,ance, 1900 psf ysat $40
,sf month. IS cents Tes well, pos'rad Of delivered
/, tafnsr