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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-17

s Fifty years ago, says the Asto,ian, the
laborer worked more hours and harder
for his pittance than the men of today
dream of. He was poorer fed, poorer
clad and poorer housed. His wages were
paid him in money issued by banks in
different states, each dollar of which was
subject to a discount or loss, as the banks
frequently failed. Clothing was no
cheaper than now. The only carpeted
room in the house was the parlor, and
that had only a rag carpet. Sewing
machines were unknown, and there was
no piano or organ to make the evenings
at home pass pleasantly, and the only
light was tallow dip or whale-oiI lamp.
Tea and coffee brought high prices, and
meat was used but sparingly. The best
mechanics received only $3.50 day in
the cities, less in country towns, and
laborers could earn-only 85 cents to 81
per day.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-17
Fifth street Grade.

IN Common Council of DalIes City is about to
proceed to establish by Ordinance the grade upon
the following named street in said Da1les City,
to-wit: On Fifth street from the west side of
Union street to the east side of Washington st.
The grade of said street will be fixed with refer
ence to the supposed stage of low water in the
Columbia river, which is fixed at point 81. 81
feet below the top of the hydrant at the south
west corner of First and Washington streets, in
said Dalles City, which point upon the Columbia
river is designated as the initial point from which
the elevations hereinafter stated are made The
squares made by the crossings of streets with
said street, shall be of the following elevations
above the datum plane, or low water level of the
Columbia river, hereinbefore fixed. At the in
terseetiop of Fifth and Union streets rs feet AT
the intersection OF Fifth and Court streets 1916
feet. At the intersection of FIFTH and Washington
streets 7S feet The grades the aforesaid street
from square to square shall be uniform and equal
By order of the Common Council.
FRANK MENEFEE.
Recorder of Da1les City.
Dated this 4th day OF March, 1892 ss7d1lt
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-17
Dissolution Nntice.

Notice is hereby given to whom it may
concern that the undersigned partners
doing business under the firm name of
E. jacobson & Co., at Dalles City, Ore
gon, have by mutual consent, this day
dissolved the said partnership, J. w.
Condor having sold his said partnership
interest to Otis S. Savage, who will con-
tinue the business under the old firm
name with E. Jacobsen.
Dated Dalles City. March II, 1892.
J. w. CONDOR,
E. JACOBSEN.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-17

The Salem Journal, as clean paper
as is published in the state, and one
withal that never caters for moment to
the saloon influence, is justly severe, as
we think, upon the two apostles of pro-
hibition who are now lecturing in this
city, because their bitter and often ex-
travagant abuse of the republican party
exposes them to them to the suspicion
of being simply "John- -Baptists of
the democratic campaign orators who
will be along little later, and thus these
pretended prohibitionists only expose
their real mission and destroy the possi-
bility of the thing they would ostensibly
upbuild." The Journal is not alone in
this judgement. Our correspondent, ga
friend of temperance, voices the same
sentiment. This mingling of politics
and religion, of prohibition and denoun-
cistion of the republican party, will
never succeed. Men who are in earnest
for s'God and home and native land"
will lecture at other times than those
Immediately proceeding political cam
paign, especially in places where the pro-
hibition party has no ticket in the field
Men who are in earnest for "God and
home and native land" will once in a
while so act as to prove that they think
that it is just as important to save the
soul of a democrat as it is to save that of
n republican, and that the democrats in
many places, The Dalles not accepted,
stand as much in need of salvation from
the whiskey curse as do the republicans.
To convert a man from the rum habit it
is not absolutely necessary to make him
believe that the tariff is a tax. Heaven
is filed With men who never believed
the doctrine here and could not believe
It there.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-17
NOTICE.

R. E. French has for sale number of
improved ranches and unimproved
lands in the Grass Valley neighborhood
in Sherman county. They will be sold
very cheap and on reasonable terms.
Mr.. French can locate settlers ON some
good unsettled claims in the same neigh
borhood. His address is Grass Valley,
Sherman county. Oregon.
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STATE oFFIcIALs.
COUNTY OFFICIALS.

The air is full of warnings to corrupt
and tricky politicians and scarcely day
passes that doe. not add another illus
tration to the oft repeated truth that no
party or faction can deceive all the peo-
pie all the time. A political land
slide occurred at Seattle the other
day, when city, republican by 900 to
1900 majority, rose up in its might and
cleaned out, root and branch, stem and
leaf, its entire set of republican city Off
GERS and elected i2-their place set of
democrats, by pluralities ranging from
1900 downwards. The causes which lead
TO this municipal revolution are said to
have been; "Extravagance in the man
agement of city affairs so reckless and
inefficient as to be little short of crimi-
nal; notorious alliance with the gam
and truth and silent contempt for the
demands of those who desired a city
government conducted on every day
business principles and, to add insult
to injury, an open defense of these in
iqnities by the leading republican paper
in the city," This is terrible indict-
ment and the worst of it is most of these
charges would hold true of hundreds of
other American cities which, according
to common fame, are regarded as the
worst governed cities in the civilized
world. 1t matters not what party is in
power in any of them, the large cities
especially are nearly all alike. If COR
rupt republicans ruled in Seattle Just as
corrupt democrats rule somewhere else
The city of New York, under the rule of
the Tammany democracy could give
pointers on corruption to any municipal
government on the footstool of the Al
mighty. The victory at Seattle was not
a democratic victory or republican de-
feat. Party principles had nothing in
the world to do with the matter. 1t
was simply a triumph of decency and
good government of which no party has
mOnoDOlV
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p1ssoLuT1oN NOTICE.

The partnership heretofore existing be-
tween j. A. Orchard and U. S. Becknell,
is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
]. A. Orchard will continue the business,
pay all debts and collect all accounts.
Dated, March 11th, 1892.
J. A. ORCHARD,
3-12d6t US. BEcKNELL.
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NOTICE.

hereby gwen that the undersigned, hav-
ing this day sold his interest in the
partnership doing business under the
firm name of E. Jacobsen & Co., will
not be responsible for any indebtedness
in the name of said firm from and after
this date.
Dalles City, Oregon, March 18th, 1892.
J. w. CONDOR.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-17
A Remarkable Cure of rheumatism.
" NINLAobl
Treas. Dalles City.

Messrs. Cage and Sherman, of Alexan-
der, Texas, write us regarding re-
markable cure of rheumatism there as
follows: "The wife of Mr.. VIM. Pruitt,
the Postmaster here had been bed-rid-
den with rheumatism for several years.
She could get nothing to do her an,~
good, We sold her bottle of Cham
berlain's Pain Balm and she was COM
pleteiy cured by its use. We refer any
one to her to verify this statement" so
cent bottles for sale by Blakeley &
Houghton, druggists.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-17
Cities in the Same Latitude.

st. Johns, Newfoundland: Montreal
and Ottawa; Portland, Or: Temeswar
Hungary; Trieste, Austria. and Venice,
Padua, Verona. Mantua Milan and
Turin, Italy. are all situated between 45
and 46 degs. of north latitude. Who
would think of putting Montreal and
Ottawa in the same latitude as Venice
and Verona?-St. Louis Republic.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-17
Might Fit.

Tramp-Please mum. me feet's on tn
ground. an if ye could spare me an ole
pair O. shoes. I'd
Mrs. Spinks-There's a wedding going
on in that big house across the street.
Just you go over there and wait. When
the couple comes ont the family will
throw a lot of the brides old shoes after
her.
"But, mum, they'd be too small.
''Huhl Wait till you see her feet
New York Weekly.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-17
Notice.

All Dalles City warrants registered
prior to September /, 1890, will be paid if
presented at my Office. Interest ceases
from and after this date.
Dated February 9th, 1892.
o. KINERsLY,
If. Treas. Dalles City.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-17

win 1t Make the Live, Wire Dead9
A new insulating material possessing
superior properties is composed of a
mixture of sulphur, pipe clay, slate dust
and paraffine wax.-New York Journal.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-17

The sycophants of Emperor Williams
court have convenient way of account
for his alterations and extravi gancies.
They say he has sore ear.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-17
THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING co
Terms of Subscription

Corner Second and Washington Streets, The
Dalles, Oregon.
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF DALLEs CITY.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-16

liet" and "Jassamine?" OF course we
have Howard" and where is Cheyenne
Bob" "Bob's" seat in the old time house
hold was in the window. And where will
my seat be il l enter the club? Every
thing seems so pleasant and erybody
so sociable that | have no preference
away back under the gallery will do me.
Anywhere, SO that 1 only become a men,
Der.
Are any of the friends here who favored
me with a valentine some years ago? L
was so sorry that the senders neglected to
write their addresses on them. l could
not tell who they were from. | have many
OF them framed. Lee" friend of mine
sent you a reply. Where is "Wilsona
Lee" of old? Well l will say adieu for
the present. There seems to be no special
subject undergoing discussion on which l
might venture a remark, so / will close by
stating that l am much pleased with the
appearance of the fifth page; and, ii well
come, will surely come again. l like the
kind of mons which appear this week; and
if the writer's had only given their towns
! could have easily identified old friends
Adieu. ali. MELANCTHoN SINCLAIR.
Xenia, o., March -
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-16

He does not 90 out of his way for the
worlds favor as com panionship; il he had
wanted the good will of the world he
would not have left the procession. All
the progress the world has made 1t owes
to the lone tramp, not that he is always
right, in fact he is oftener wrong than
right. Cain was the first lone tramp, and
he made bad break at the start. And
the enormity OF his ofTense blinded the
world to the fact that it is to him and his
pnsterity it owes its knowledge, not only
OF cities and houses, but OF tents, domestic
cattle, metal tools and musical instru-
ments. Had it not been for them the
world might still have been dwelling in
caves and hollow trees, and eating mutton,
bitter herbs, figs and wild plums.
Zeroster, Budha and COnfuscius, Ar
chimedes, Capernicas and Harvey were
lone tramps, so were Abraham and Moses.
St Paul was lone tramp ard proud OF
the distinction, for he not only assures us
that his doctrine and authority were not
of man, but also him, that he even bsp-
tised himself, as that is the import of the
Greek In Acts NNII, Is.
LONE TRAMP"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-16
Backwoods, Ind, March 10.
The Irony of Friendship.

The worst affection which US oft befAlls
Is not to grow rich in wisdom, but in earthly
gain;
Mammons blessing is the curse which oft sppalls,
Divorcing from friendship would fain
Keep, as we have learned to love it so;
But mammon when we are once his slaves become
Daigns not by pity, but by sudden blow
To strike the cords of former friendship dumb;
His tools not clubs but words spun by oily tongue
To suit our vanity with fond behest;
His slaves we shrink as tho by vi per stung
From friends aud think we're acting for the best
But changing fortune brings eyes-in truth
We see, like theft in moments least suspect,
sudden blast, our fortunes lost forsooth;
Alas All happiness is reckd,
With intense suf' ring, which o'erwhelms the soul
With aches and pains which drowned the heart in
tears;
We struggle and we seek In nook OF hole
To hide from scandal bursting on the ears;
Glad would We call our friends OF former time
And press them TO our heart in fond embrace.
But blushing shame with mounting ush declines,
With conscious guilt to further seek disgrace
10 let hypocrisy bring on new vice,
By trying meath a fawning mask to plead
Freer friendship, without which our life is ice.
And We helpless on its surfcce 70 proceed,
What can we do our bOsoms filed with griet2
But quaf the bitter drink from folly's cup,
Only praying that the time be brief
While we're as mortsls are doomed to sup,
Yet scarcely are here these thoughts compiled,
Scarce has the star Of hope grown dim,
Then rushing toward us gladly, wild
In reckless haste of life or limb,
We see our friends, the friends of former days
We feel their precious breath upon our lips
Our hands are clssped; all time delays
The compact new, while fond affection sips
Tho treasured feelings that then through us race,
AS with deep-felt love we fondly cling
As penitents in arms that spurn 10 trace
The dubious paths TO gOssip's spring.
Or with rumors wild disport themselves
In Gossip's mighty court nor less
Where nymphs in fury dress'd and elves
Join brainless admiration's guests,
But friends remain friends indeed
To US, and We to them, by turn,
Aid each the other when in need
Till death may change but ne'er can burn
The cords that bind our souls in love.
Cur friendship of this earth in turn
Remain our friendship there alone. lPoLLocK.
Quaintness.
"Social purity" like charity, must begin
at home.
An empty stomach is preferable to an
empty head-neither is desirable.
Joy unalloyed By sorrow would be as
an odorless perfume-unapprecia
The mill that never started is unequal
to the one worn out.
One demagogue will work more harm
than dozen felons.
Pride frequently feasts upon the husks
of poverty.
An migrate is preferable to a hypocrite /;
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COME RIGHT IN.
From One Who win Receive 81 Very Gener-
Welcome.
Eagletown. Ind, March y.

From One Who wiz Receive - Very Gener-
Welcome.
DEAR FRIENDs-This letter will be a sur
prise to the club. have never written to
THE SENTINEL before, and yet l will find
many dear friends among its readers.
The first familiar face that | meet is that
of the treasurer, Mary J. Kelley. Oh. how
well do remember the initials an. J. X"
of old! The initials used in the household
of days long gone. The next title that
seems to greet meis MAUD Maple, though
10 judge from the letter this is not the
same MAUD" who belonged to the house
hold band OF other years-the one whose
hand-painted souvenir still hangs above
nv dresser, though received years ago,
and to whom | have long owed private
letter. Then again, Evening Star" seems
TO send raw in NV direction. Well be
these old-time friends or not, the titles are
the same, and l therefore experience an
imaginary welcome at least. And as this
disrobes me of my external timidity feel
encouraged to proceed with the whv and
the wherefore Of my unexpected presence.
For some fifteen years / was one of the
well-knoWn writers OF the Enquirer house
hold page. The old original Moss Rose"
and Moss Rose Thorn" then later on.
"Not for Gold, "Gilt Edge" ETC., chang
ing to suit the occasion or the subject on
which | write. Years have passed, how
ever, since my last letter appeared there.
And that was the last one that ever will
appear there. though / have been a
reader and am yet subscriber. The dear
old happy household of which l speak is
thing OF the pGst-gone never to return.
They have a household and a club. and
the breach is widening between the two
Oaily. house divided against itself
must fall.
Well, had long missed the old-time
writers. and. in a personal letter to Miss
Lima Shively recently, I made certain
inquiries which elected the information
that many of them we're to be found in the
club which am now addressing. Miss S.
spoke very kindly Of the III. L. c., indeed,
and expressed regret that the position
which she now fills as secretary prevented
her from becoming as familiar with the II.
J.. G. members as she, outside of her Official
duties, would wish.
at once wrote for a specimen COPY of
The SENTINEL, and this letter is the result.
My subscription will follow, and whether
become a member of the club or not
depends on the kind of reception receive
on this my first visit. Who are here of
nv old-time friends7 Have YOU an
'Ivy?" an Artist" an "Organist?p
"Ajax." are you here? Where are "Fi-
dus Achates." Hazel Bush" elk" "Ju-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-16
THE THOUGHTS OF OTHERS.

some Excellent Quotations Collected by
Samuel Thrift.
Agreeable advice is seldom useful ad-
vice.-Ndssilion.
a good word is an easy obligation, but
not to speak i'll requires only our silence,
which costs us nothing Tdlottson.
They are never alone who are accom-
panied with noble thoughts.-Sidney.
He who waits to do great deal OF good
at once will never do any.-JOhnsOn.
Do good to all, that thou mayest keep
thy friends and gain thine enemies
Anon.
Dost thou love life? Then do not
squander time, for that is the stuff life is
made of-FraHkiua.
\ friend should bear his friends in
tirmities. Shakespeare
An honest man is the noblest work of
God.--P0De.
Be not wise in your own conceits.-NeU
Testament.
Brevity is the soul OF wit.-Sbakespear.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers,
for thereby some have entertained angels
unawares.-NtW Testament.
1t is good for us to be here.-Ne1o Tcsta-
ment
is not Its confederation
Mans inhumanity to man makes count
less thousands mourn Burns
Neither borrower nor a lender be-
ShGksDedre.
O death in lie, the days that are no
more IelnySOn.
Reading maketh full man, conference
a ready man and writing an exact man.
LORD Bacon.
The ar is full of farewells to the diving
and mourning for the dead OnqfelIoU.
The quality of mercy is not strained, it
droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
upon the place beneath 1t is twice blest,
it besseth him that gives and him that
takes.-ShdEspeGrc.
There is no fear In love but perfect love
casteth out fear-Ne;C Testament
There is no fireside, howso'er defended.
but has one vacant chair onQfeifor.
These are the times that try mems
souls.-Paue.
Thew are slaves most base whose love of
right Is for themselves, and not for all the
race.-LOreH
To be or not to be; that is the ques-
tion-.Shdtspeare
To err is human, to forgive divine
Pope.
Virtue alone is happiness below.-Pope.
Abundance, like want, ruins many
Anon.
The first class of temptations that as
eault young man is led on by the skeptic.
-TGhHGge.
Life outweighs oil things if love lies
within it.-GOefhe.
Beware of desperate steps.-COCper.
Nothing Is constant but a virtuous mind.
-ShTip.
BY steps we may ascend to God-Mlton.
lis not the action, but the intention,
that is good or bad.-Anon
Kind Howard Friends-I have at
tempted to entertain you by quoting some
excellent truths that have been spoken by
different persons in DAYS of yore. No
doubt some Of them are familiar TO the
majority of you, for ;hey are thoughts
that we would do well to put into every
day practice. With greetings to al I'll
make my bow and take my departure.
Who will welcome Selected"
SAMUEL THRIFT"
Eagletown. Ind, March -
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-16

accomplish almost every thing. Some
people will almost sell their hope
of heaven for a dollar. o, / be-
lieve in everybody having money
and making it by an honest living and
not cheating some one else out OF 1t
Just for the sake of having little moro
earthly wealth. Love is only a shadow to
a great many when some one else comes
along with the glittering gold. and honor
is forgotten. l heard man say today he
would sell his vote on the sly for -.
think he has lost all sense OF honor.
"Sun Set" don't you think the law ought
to give a woman divorce il her husband
sold his vote? "Frixie," we do not live
far apart would you mind telling me who
you are? Where are all the old members?
Who will welcome "INEZ"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-16
HOWARD LITERARY CLUB.
Our Motto.
HONOR, LOVE. CHARITY
OFFICERS.


President-Win E. strawn. Montpelier, Ind.
First ce-presideDt-Robert n. Moulton,
Wintersviile, Ind.
Second Vice-president-Miss Sue C. Parker,
Kalona, Ia.
Recording secretary-Mrs. Dora Older,
Adrian. Mich.
Merker Emery, III.
Treasurer-Miss Mary j. Kelley, Campoells-
town, o.
Executive Committee-AlonZo Finley Jacobs,
Greencsstle. Ind; Torrence NJ Jackson. Ne"
lancaster Ind. W. :. Kokendoffer. MonteVallo.
No.; j. c. Mcdonald. Medina, Tenn; Mrs- j. z.
Barnes, BrCceton Mills. w. Va.
OBJECTS.
Sec. 2of Article of Constitution
The object of the Howard Literary Club Is TO
encourage pure literature, strengthen morality.
estsblish sociability. increase desire for mind
improvement and literary attachments and to
extend the work of reformation.
MEMBERSHIP.
Sec. OF Article of Constitution
All persons of good moral character who are
Interested in the objects OF this organization
and are willing to work In accordance there
with are eligible to membership.
We most cordially invite every one truly and
unsompromisingly interested In our objects to
Join our club.
Letters Of inquiry should be addressed the
Corresponding Secretary with stamp.
The Howard Literary has neither salarled
Officers nor contributors, and depends wholly
upCn its merits and PRINCIPLES for success.
Members only are entitled 10 the rare bene-
6ts OF our book catalogue
All letters for publication must be carefully
written on one side of the paper only, accom-
panied by the writer real name and address,
As well the nom de plume. and plainly adj
dressed 70 the editor c. q. Stewart, SENTINEL
Office, indianapolis. Ind.
Members in renewing subscription for The
SENTINEL viii please be sure TO send 81 70 the
Howard Literary Treasurer, as the club IS
allowed q small commission. Due credit and
prompt action guaranteed.