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a. Reokoned He would Run.


One of the most interesting characters
IN American history is General Zachary
Taylor, sOld Rough and Ready, " hero of
Buena Vista, father-in-law of Jefferson
Davis and twelfth president of the United
States. We all recollect how Daniel
Webster sneered at him, before he was
nominated, as 'sbackwoods colonel"
and refused to let his friends put him on
the ticket for vice president with Taylor
for first place, thereby missing his last
and, as the sequel showed, best chance
of becoming president. Millard Fill
more, of New York, took the despised
second place and thereby had nearly
three years in the White House.
General Sherman used to tell an ANUS
ing little story of Taylor anent his nomi-
nation. for the presidency. AT that time
General Taylor was stationed at New Or
leans. He was Kentuckian and the
Kentuckians were very properly proud Oh
him. One day shortly before the conven-
| tiop met at Baltimore he was approached
at New Orleans by an old Kentucky
friend, who said:
General, we want you to run for presi-
| dent"
"Who wants me to runp asked Gener-
al Taylor seriously.
"Why, we do-all your old neigh,
bors"
ssWell, then, if that's the case" replied
the old hero, without changing the ex
preston of his face, 81 reckon I'll have
to run."-Detroit Free Press.
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NEoDERN wooDMEN OF THE WORLD
M Mt. Hood Camp No. 90, Meets Tuesday even
ing OF each week in the K. of P. Hall, at 7so P n
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SOCIETIES.

DALLEs ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER NO. g.
~ Meets in Masonic Hall the third Wednesday
of each month at P. NJ.
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publishea Dally, sunaay Excep.ca.
THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING co,
OF Subscription

Corner second and Washington, Streets, The
Dalles, Oregon.
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nR. G. f. SANDERS,
| Graduate of the U a iSersity OF Michlgan. Sue
cessor to DIR. Tucker. Office over Frenchs'
Bank, The DalIes, Or.
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~ NJ, sALYER, CIVIL ENeINEEkrsss, Survey
II /. ing, and Architieture, The Dalles, Or.
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TEMPLE LODGE NO 8, A. o. o. w Meets
at K of P. Hall, Corner Second and Court
Streets, Thursday evenings at 7:30.
GEORGE GIBoNs,
VS. MYERS, Financier. NJ. w.
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u1oMEN,s CHRISTIAN Temperance
w UNION will meet every Friday afternoon
at O'Clock at the reading room. Allare invited
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NAYS. 3. 8. HUNTINGTON H. WILSON.
zS4Ys. HUNTINGTON L wILSON-ATToR-
vi OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, French's block over
First National Bank, The Dalles- Oregon
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q. NJ. BEALl
Cashier.
j. S. scHKNcK,
President.
j. s. scHExcK, q. NJ. BEALl.
President Cashier.
First National Bank.
HE DALLEs. OREGON

A General Banking Business transacted
Deposits received, subject to Sight
Draft or Check.
Collections made and proceeds promptly
remitted on day of collection
Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold ON
New York, San Francisco and Port
DIRECTORS.
D. 2. THOMPSON. JNo. s. SCHENcK.
ED. NJ. WILLIAMS, GEO. A. LIRBE.
H. NJ. BEALL.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS

~ sIDDALL- DENrIsT.- Gas given for the
| b. painless extraction of teeth Also teeth
| set on flowed aluminium plate. Rooms: s1gn OF
| the Golden Tooth, Second Street.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-10-20
The Thrifty Redskin.

It is said that the mple-minded
Indian of the plains makes many an
honest penny by manufacturing and
selling to the curious and credulous
'stenderfoot During the last win
ter ''the arrow that slew Custer" was
twice sold to English travellers, al
though it is well known that Clusters
body was untouched by arrows. Ma
vaio blankets from Massachusetts, and
Indian pipes from Connecticut are
common articles of sale The TOM
toms eagerly bought asrelics are often
nothing less than Government cheese
boxes covered with sheepskin. Pipes
which the Indians exhibit and sell in
their tepees for seven and eight dol
lars may be bought at the post
traders for two dollars. The Apache
no longer has any use for spear. and
there are few genuine ones to be
found, but he still makes them out
of long poles and boiler iron to sell to
the tendertoot. So also he now uses
the Winchester in place of bow and
arrow, but he spends many Sunday
making bows for collections which he
disposes of for an extortionate sum as
heir looms that were formerly use in
the chase by his father, Plenty Bear,
or some other distinguished warrior.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-10-20

a passage for red and blue and stand
fixed as they came in. Instantly the
mats were cleared from the platters as
if a meal were done Then they put
down a great covered basket, tightly
tied.
With endless manipulations and cere-
monies it was opened. The covers and
cloths, napkins and mats taken out from
it were numberless. But at last we
came to a handsome necklace, made of
three gold coins and say thirty silver
coins. This really elegant thing they
handed fearlessly to me. You know I
am bit of an expert in coins. The
three gold pieces, which were made, so
to speak, the center Of the necklace,
were perfect Portuguese Joes, as perfect
as if they had been struck yesterday.
The silver coins, also fresh from the
mint, were English shillings, exactly
like mine, but that they were not in the
least worn, out Of the coinage Of Charles
I. AS everybody knows. these are, if
in good condition, among the very
rarest coins in the world, poor Charles
having, for reasons we'll known to his
tory, very little silver to coin. The
Joes, as I said, were fresh from the
mint of King Joannes of Portugal, the
fourth OF that name.
In another wrapper, where found a
husk or two of Indian corn was a very
handsome wampum necklace of Nara
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-10-20

Here's the way we test coins in
the treasury" And the expert swiftly
poised the dollar-piece HORIZONTALLY
on the tip Of his foref1nger, holding
the thumb a quarter Of an inch away
from 1T, and gave it brisk tap with
another coin. A clear, silVery ring
sounded out. 'tGood; but here-lis-
ten," and he repeated the operation
with another coin that gave ont 4
dull, heavy clink that ceased almost
as soon as it began.
Type metal and lead; nodded, too.
mat is a wretched counterfeit"
How do you tell that it was
molded?"
He held the two coins so that the
light struck on their edges
'Just compare the reeding, will
you, or milling, as most people call it.
In this genuine coin this is very clear
and sharp cut, in the counterfeit it
is coarse and dull. That is because
it is nodded instead of being stamped
in cold metal like the Government
coins"
'Why do the counterfeiters not use
the same cold process?"
1T costs too much and makes too
much noise. With mold, you see,
counterfeiter can carry on his work in
garrett, and if policeman comes in
he can shy the whole outfit out Of the
window. But it takes great power to
run a die. Still some high-fying
counterfeiters do use them, and their
work is unusually harder to detect,
though it is never so perfect as that
OF the Government mint"
what is the surest test for coun-
terfeit coin for popular use?"
1.-THE looks of the reeding, as I was
telling you-the milling, by the way,
is on the face of the coin and not on
the edge, as most people think. That's
the surest and easiest thing, but Of
course other tests have to be used,
especially for weight and thickness.
A little scale for weight and measure
is the handiest thing to settle that.
Then, for plated coin a drop of acid
squirted on the edge where the plat
ing wears most will chew up the base
metal in hurry"
t'What acid do you use?"
''For gold coin mixture of strong
nitric acid 81 drachms, muriaUic acid
Is drops, and water drachms, is
used; for silver, "a grains of nitrate OF
silver and 80 drops of nitric acid with
once ounce of water. One drop is
sufficient. If the coin is heavily
plated we scrape it a little before put
ting on the acid. Springfield Repub-
| lican
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-10-20

All these tokens of Manchester were
enough to show that they had learned
the value of money. This was the first
time they had seen that I had any, and
I was graeeless enough to think that it
would be long before handled my luck
penny again.
But in this thought as a Philistine
thinks, as you shall see.
gracefully unhitched it from the
chain and gave it to him with my best
manner. What says Jacob Abbot:
when you grant, grant cheerfully."
Old nightgown showed it eagerly to blue
nightgown, and to a red nightgown on
the other side. Their faces beamed
with establishment and delight. Then
they pointed to each other the stamp on
the diverse with evident Joy Then,
with great ceremony, they handed back
the piece to me- If it had been sacred
it could not have been more reverently
handled. Then blue and red nightgowns
scrambled up from their launches, more
rapidly than gracefully, and hurried
from the house. What in thunder all
this meant could not guess.
And I was more than satisfied when
they returned, this time again with GER
tain ceremony. For what I might call
an escort, rather than a bodyguard,
/ came with them. Through the great
open doorway 1 could see the process
4 sion come of ten or twelve men, I could
/ see 1t open to the right and left to make
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-10-20
An Oyster city.

Franklin City, situated on bit Of
marshY land at the extreme north
east corner of West Virginia, owes it's
being and continuity to the oyster.
The bay adjoining is rich with oys-
ter-beds, and the city, which forms
the terminus of a branch railway
line, consists Of fifty buildings, every
one Of which is occupied by those who
make their living in some way, di-
rectly or Indirectly, out of the BIZ
valves.
Every house is built on piles three
or four feet above the surface of the
ground. Elevated board walks run
from house to house. There
are two main and two side
streets, unpaved, Of course. The
only solid bits of ground any
where are composed of empty oyster
shells. These form the entire bal
lasting of the railway line.
There are no sewers or drains, but
whenever southeast gale RACES the
sea sweeps up under the city and
washes all refuse away. To obtain
water, wells have been driven into
the salt bay itself, and sweet water is
drawn from sixty feet below the sur
face. All the heads of houses are
well off, making good incomes out Of
the oysters. The people are general
ly handsome, sturdy lot, both men
and women.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-10-20
Higher Authority.

When Sherman reached Atlanta,
he had much trouble in keeping back
camp-followers, suffers, women, Gu
riosity-seekers, and so on. He gave
stringent orders that no one was to
be allowed to go to the front without
a specific order. Just about that
time a surgeon came back from a
furlough. He had passes through to
Atlanta, but at Chattanooga they re-
fused to allow his wife to accompany
him further. They had only been
married a few weeks, and he had
resolved that she should go with him,
orders or no orders. Accordingly he
dressed her as soldier, and managed
to smuggle her on a train. At
Resaca, she was stopped, her sex be-
ing discovered. The officer of the
post absolutely refused to let her go
on. The surgeon pleaded. Finally,
after appealing to the officers sense
of mercy, he fell back on Scripture.
"My pass allows one to go to the
front, +" he said, "and Scripture says a
man and his wife are one. "
"Thunder!" retorted the officer;
Sherman outranks Scripture all to
blaZes in these times.
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Tha Cnhhlar.

A singular discovery has been made
at the Odeon Theater, Paris. From
time to time the sound of hammer
ing has been heard apparently coming
from the roof OF the theater.
The other night the new manager,
M. La Rounat. heard it during the
performance of Britanicus. Inquiries
were made. ut is the cobbler, said
the scene shifter. The manager and
the stage-manager looked at each
other in establishment. s'What cob
bler?" Inquiries were made of the
door-keeper. Eyes, it is the cobbler.
stWhat cobbler?" The concierge"
did not know. Guided by the noise,
the manager arrived at a little room
with a skylight. In it indeed there
was a cObbler. working gaily enough.
sFWho are your" asked the man
ager. ST am the cobbIer." 'sAgainl"
The cobbler was requested to clear
out. The question now was how he
had got there. Everybody knew him
by sight At last one Of the oldest
members of the theater traced the
cObbler back to the days Of George
Sands piece, Les Beaux Messieurs du
Boisdore. A great many boots were
needed in this piece. At the dress
rehearsal most of the boots were
found too small The stage-manager
sent for a cobbler, and, in order to
prevent the noise of his hammering
from interrupting the rehearsal, he
had been sent upsGSirs to enlarge the
boots He had remained there
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-10-20
Paper-Covered Bullets.

In consequence of the enormous
initial velocity Of the bullet in the
new Mannlicher rife, and the result
ing friction and wear on the barrel,
it has become necessary to devise
some method preventing both Of these
evils. The manager of the Govern
ment Laboratory at Thun, Switzer-
land, has consequently devised a
method Of inclosing the leaden bullet
in a thin metallic covering, while
over this he places a wrapper of
specially prepared oleaginous paper,
which reduces the wear of the rife
barrel to a minimum, without inter
fering with the course Of the bullet.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-10-20
AN AFRICAN ROMANCE.
A Story Blended with Some Interesting
Colonial History.
BY EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
CHAPTER i.

CHAPTER i.
find that very few Of my country
men understand anything of the detail
of village life in Africa. Because the
people who print the maps choose to
color one region with carmine and
another with cobalt, people take an
idea that there are great nations there,
each, I suppose, with a president, a
congress, reporters, az Urinary meet
ings, and everything Use to make
people comfortable. All this is wrong.
Africa, almost everywhere, and In
particular Central Africa, south Of the
Great Desert, and north of what we
call, conveniently enough, the Cape, is
a land, had almost said, Of villages.
By this I mean that there are. I dare
not so how many tribes, living comfort
ably enough, each in its own place,
only molested when Arab slave traders
come along; now that the slave trade Of
the Atlantic has been happily put down.
1t is in little village in one Of these
really independent tribes that 1 had the
adventure which L now describe. If
you look on any map which is old enough
you will find the kingdom Of Lower
Mandara. In that kingdom is, or should
be, this village Of sixty or eighty huts.
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APreacher,s AdvIoe.

A preacher was once being greatly
annoyed by persons getting up and
going out during the service. His
patience being at last exhausted, he
stopped his discourse and sternly ex-
claimed to man who was just leaV-
ing:
$50 on, my lad; I've seen the top
Of your head, and that's enoughl"
The young man turned around and
angrily facing the preacher, NUT
tered:
''I'll see you again. old fellow"
YOU'D better see me now, replied
the preacher, ''for when Pm in the
pulpit I fight for the Lord Jesus
Christ. but when Pm out OF it I fight
for myself. brakes Magazine,
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Rirds OF Great swlftnese.

The speed of a hawk or gull on the
wing is almost incredibly great.
One of the swiftest hawks could
make a circle round the smoke stack
of a locomotive travelling so miles an
hour; while a gull has often been
known to fly before a favorable wind
at the rate of 100 miles an hour.
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CHATTER N.

did not choose to abate the rever-
ence with which I saw this book was re-
garded. I am as little given to bibli-
olatry as any man. But in this case
made no scruple. ! bowed as low as
RedgoWn had bowed, and touched my
forehead to the volume. Then I com
manded silence. 1 opened at the Ser
mon on the Mount. I read the first
three beatitudes and the Lord's prayer
aloud AS solemnly and with such dignity
as I could express. By a signal I made
them all bow their heads. And, with
all my heart, I am sure, on my knees,
said, Father in heaven, tell me what to
do, what to say, and how to lead these
people. I am sure they understood
that I offered prayer.
I gave back the book to the curious
and digni1ed old chief, who was, I
think, a priest of some kind. care
fully watched the folding Of it in mats,
and the business Of taking it away with
the necklace. Then I began a series of
signs, and such Undergraduates as can
be expressed by them, wishing at the
time that I had the skill of Harlequin
or of Columbine, in translating into
visible speech" the language Of the ear.
They led me out into the open air.
They showed me the sun, which was by
this time half an hour high. I was made
to understand that he rose at one spot
Ii JIG Pc1Ib VI Tic year anu tJ
at another season. Then I felt that we
were advancing. I had the night be-
fore been made to understand that two
doubled fists made ten. Now by re-
peated pilings together of the fists OF
one and another chief and priest, I was
taught that it was twenty-four tens OF
years since these things came into their
possession The son of Red Gown was
brought forward, a vigorous man of so,
Of
was made to understand that Red
Gowns fathers fathers father, seven
| generations back, brought the sacred
things from a country beyond the sun
set. He had preserved them, and, as
found afterwards, by oaths the most
sacred in formulas more binding than
! anything which is known to book-ruled
| lands, he had bound his children and
his children's children to preserve them
/ say 4 was made to understand
this" How much I really gained from
that long and trying conversation in
pantomime I do not precisely know,
but when my interpreters appeared, my
guesses were confirmed or corrected, so
| that find it now hard to say at what
moment I gained the correct ideas.
By this time they had missed me
from the ship. Ny black fellows had
/ gone home at ten o'clock at night and
reported that I was lost. at sunrise
/ they sent these two out again and some
volunteer skirmishers. By nine O'Clock
some Of the Blue Gowns people met
some Of these scouts, and by ten had
Phil and John to talk for me. Red
| Gown produced man who had taken a
Mendi wife. and so, with four languages
and interpreters, we understood each
other in way.
The first time I waS at home in Con
necticut, some five years after this hap
] pened, I made a run down to Boston,
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used Then Coz ObservatorIes.

The white ant constructs habita-
tions many yards in height, which
are so firmly and solidly built that
the buffaIoes were able to mount
them and use them as observatOries;
they are made of particles OF wood
Joined by a gummy substance, and
are able to resist event the force Of a
hurricane
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-10-20
nnInne nmbreiIa Handles.

The new umbrellas have unique
handles which serve a double pur-
pose. One of the latest London nov
elites is a dogs head of carved wood.
The mouth opens on a tram ticket
Another handle has a whistle for
calling cabs, and in the third is an
opera glass.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-10-20

gansett manufacture. 1t had been my
business to study wampum, not to say
to make it, to buy it, and to sell it. 1
have never seen more perfect beads
than these, white and black both, and
all of the best forms. I have no doubt
that the string was in the same condi-
ton as when it was traded away by
CanonicuS or some of his men.
This revelation was more eXtraor-
binary than the other. Silver and gold,
almost of their nature, go all over the
world. But wampum does not. How
did this necklace-it was not a belt
come here?
expressed by every sign-by rails
ing Of the eyebrows, holding up Of my
open palms, and radiant smiles-my in
terest, curiosity and surprise, might
say puzzled amazement. Then
handed back the two necklaces, re-
spectfully, to RedgOwn. Then the
ceremony continued. More mats were
withdrawn from the basket. Another
parcel was reached, larger than the
first. This was carefully opened, with
sundry prostrations, and a knock or two
of the forehead upon it. When all was
opened it proved to be a bound book,
which was handed to me reverently. I
opened it at the title page, to find a per-
feet English Bible. For an instant
thought it was a waif from Mungo
Parks equipment. No, it was of a
date much earlier than he. Cum
Privilegio, London, 1912. Published by
the Kings Printer"
How, when or why, by what agency
Of church, state or trade, had these
things found their way here?
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-10-20

twenty years. The people in the the
ater had been accustomed to see him
with mis- leather apron; and, as he in
terfered with nobody, nobady inter-
fered with him
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-27
Nothing Too Big.

The show world is looking with intense
interest and curiosity toward the outcome
OF this seasons business of the Adam Fore
paugh Shows. 1t seems that Manager j. T.
McCaddon, inspired, doubtless, to a degree
by youthful enthusiasm, has made the
shows so much larger and more expensive
than they have ever been before that the
old conservative managers who are unac-
customed to even dreaming of such enor-
nous magnitude, are predicting that it will
not be possible for the Adam Forepaugh
Shows to be profitable, and that another
season will see them brought back some-
what nearer TO their dimensions of last and
other previous years. 1t is said that Mana
ger McCaddon simply smiles confidently
when he hears OF this, and states that he is
willing to take his chances; that as soon
as the American people learn how big the
shows really are, they will turn out in
such numbers as to make them not only
profitable, but more so than they have ever
been before. He is probably right. We
will have chance to see when the shows
exhibit here on Friday, July 20.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-27

IHAvE had catarrh for twenty years, and
used all kinds of remedies without relief.
Mr. Smith. druggist, of Little Falls, recon-
mended Ely's Cream Balm. The effect OF
the first application was magical; it allayed
the inflammation, and the next morning my
head was as clear as bell. L am convinced
its use will effect permanent cure. 1t is
soothing and pleasant, and strongly urge
its use by all sufferers. George T. rry, Lit
tie Falls, ". Y,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-27

No woman is beautiful with bad skin,
covered with pimples, freckles, moth or
tan. 1 have been asked many times what
will remove these unsghtly blemishes.
No face paints or powders will remove
them, as they are caused by impure blood.
The only sure remedy 1 have ever seen is
Sulphur Bitters, and in hundreds Of cases 1
have never known them to fail. Editress
Fashion Gazette.