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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-27

q number OF rails were removed from the mac
sine-rtrret track. and similar mischief wes dcrc
on camp street Tns rails wcro carried some
distance away and thrown into the guttert On
Camp street near hacc during the night bricks,
stones. and lumber wcre piled en- the track : ,
such an extent that 10 required feverai nous
wors nv a largo force OF men to clear the wav.
An e,orf Is being made 10 seitlo the difference
efwcen the strikers and inc companies, but 70
far tttlo has boon accomplished.
I,t,bmouders Registered In New York.
fspecial telegram N the Dispn,ch.l
NEW Yoar. May 26.--,J. l. Mckee, ST.. Denis !;
I. n. MAYNARD. Colonaie: ". ID. Meyer, q. w.
Pemberton. aud J. Meyer. S;urtsyanta
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-27
-ETs A PLEASURE


-----f for US to do You people
----g good turn-you appreciate it.
----- We knew we were not taking an
-- elephant en- our hands" when we
- bought that manufacturers stock Of
- CHILDREN's sHORT-PANTs SUITS. We
- knew the sort they wore. What they were
- actually worth. We were confident you'd
--- take our judgment in the matter
--- but the values themselves are so
---- plain anybody can see them.
Then 10 mark them
$3.50 - $3.50 - and
sj.s0-qualltes that are
worth mos, double as much
--- capped tho climax-stirrei up
--- enthusiasm TO tho highest pitch.
- 'Tisn't dying down any, either. Those
- who have already bought have talked 1t
up" TO their friends. And everybody is
- pleased. Nobody s disappointed. No
--- matter how high you've built your
---- expectations, they'll be moro
-- than realized.
II isn't like a reduction
sale OF patterns and
styles that stick at regu-
- lar prices. These are the
-- very latest fashions. The most
-- popular ones-and 81 Of them.
| - Bought in lump-from we told you
- who-Peck & Hauchhaas-and We told you
what their standing was as CHILDRENs
TAILoRs. The prices have no bearing
on the qualities. They were made
---- possible by buying the entire
----s stool - and paying SPOT
CASH for IT. That's the
secret Of our being
---- able 20 oiIer-s6. $3.50,
and So SUITS for
- $3.50.
= ss, $3.50, o., and $3.50 SUITS for
$3.50.
- $40, $3.50, 50, and $3.50 SUITS for
-- $3.50.
|
!
Have You Been In YrTs
To-Day and Io-NO'r0V Only.
| A. SAKs AND CoxrAsY.
! MAIN AND ELEVENTH STREETS
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-27
ADJUSTMENTS.
MOZART ACADEMY or MUSIC.
STUART MONUMENT.
MEETINGS-I'ourth Friday.

MIbl IlNOO uuttu ii0oIs
ST. ANDREW coNuAsDggy.
DAMON LODGE, KNIGHTS or PYfHfAS.
Union LODGE. oDD-FELLOws.
UNITY LODGE. 0Dr-FsIIOws.
orAcHisr0 yRiBr. Rad MEN.
MANITOBA TRIBE. RED hES.
FRATERNITY LODGE, KNIGHTS or HONOR.
Mutual LOrGE, KNIGHTS or HONOR.
ANCHOR LODGE. GOLDEN CHAIN.
RIcHHoSD LODGE. GOLDEN CHAIN.
RESCUE COUNCIL. AMERICAN MECHANICS.
CLAY ASSEMBLY. GOOD WILLOWS.
VALLEY EQUITABLE LEAGUE.
SIDNEY LODGE. GOOD rEHrLAkS.
EAsT-END LODGE. GOOD TkhfLARs
LEE LoDGE. PROGRESSIVE BENEFIT.
RICHMOND CASTLE. GOLDEN EAGLE.
-" COMPANY, FIRST VIRGINIA. REGIMENT.
LEE CANT.
TIr sHEgT-IROS COUNCIL.
OLD DOMINION COUNCIL, LEGION or HONOR.
HANCOCK ASSEMBLY, GOOD WILLOWS.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-12-24

want It or not
NOFE-Owing to the great demand on the pub
fishers throughout the east, only limited num-
ber could be secured for the Oregon holiday
trade and only few of these are available for
The Dalles. fhe first to come will be the first
served.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-12-24

The question of supplying free text
books to all pupils in the public schools
of Washington is being agitated by vari-
GUS papers throughout the state, the
consensus of opinion being generally in
favor of the movement. In part of at
least twenty-one states in the Union
school books are i'll whole or in part
supplied free to scholars, and in the
whole or part of eleven states text books
are entirely free.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-12-24

A paper in Eugene is kicking at Pague
because they had sunshiny day recent
" when his forecast of the weather an
nounced rain. That is rough. Up this
way the people place considerable con-
fidence in the forecasts of the weather,
and we disagree with the Register. We
think 1.-The fellow who sends them is
mighty right, and does much to soothe
the nerves on a chilly day by his mod
Grafton clause.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-12-24
A JUrE SACK FACTORY.

Following the lead of The CHRONICLE
for an employment for the state eonviets
in Oregon which would not be oppres-
sive to free labor, upon our suggestions
OF jute sack factory in the penitentiary,
az one is conducted in Walla Walla,
several journals of the stale have faVora-
bly commented. The Pendleton Tribune
OF Yesterday thinks "the matter OF let
ting this labor out to the highest bidder,
as has been done in the past, is not
wise policy. The state can just as well
utilize it and reap considerable profit
thereby, and yet not bring such labor
into competition with other institutions
which employ free men in this state.
The state of Washington has made a
success in this matter, and it seems that
Oregon would do we'll to follow the ex-
ample set by her sister state. The IMAM
ufacture of jute bags is d business that
has large field, and there is room for
another jute mill in Oregon. In fact,
Oregon alone could easily use all the
bags that could be manufactured by the
labor of the Oregon convicts and the
profita BILE, and not interfere with the
employment OF free labor, while the
present system of letting out the labor
OF convicts to the highest bidder allows
this class of cheap labor TO interfere with
the wage earners of the country, such as
the manufacture of stoves, which ought
to be produced by the misunderstanding
industries OF the country.
The manufacture of the jute bags at
WaIla Walla last year, to the number OF
about TWO million, had great tendency
to keep the corner from being made on
the Calcutta bags, and actually saved
the states oil Oregon and Washington
vast sums of money.
No better way can be suggested to use
the convict labor OF this state than for
this state to build jute mills and manu-
facture the jute bags in competition with
the jute manufactures of India, for no
other class of labor except convict labor
can compete with the pauper labor OF
India.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-12-24

B. o. ID. -PHYsIcIAN-sAND SUR
~ eEoN. Office: rooms and Chapm an
.;ock Residence: 8. (. rner Court and
Fourth streets, sec md door from the corner.
OfRce hours to II A. M, 2 to and to p. II.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-12-24

Engineers Meek, Kennedy and Chalk,
who divided names and created one for
the station known as Mekecha, left be-
hind them a puzzler equal TO that left
by Buckley, Golfer and Davis, who sim
ilarly divided and left Bucoda for their
cool mine, or Chief Engineer Thielsen' 8
daughters Clara and Fannie, for whom
Clarnie was named. Tourists generally
write these names as coming from our
charming Indian dialect.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-12-24

Democratic organs continue to wall
over "the corrupt use of money by re-
seem to think it will serve democracy as
a shield to hide behind. But when the
president elect openly led the forces
with s25 900 and democratic newspaper
boasted of raising $34 600 ami hundreds
of others made equal claims to such
honors, the howl against republicans
will not amount to much, and will
hardly serve to hide their own crimes.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-12-24

TAR ESHELMAN (HoM EoPArHIcy PHYSICIAN
~ and SURGEoN.-CalIs answered promptly,
day or night, city or country. Office No. 36 aud
81 Chapman block wtf
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-12-24

petition is in circulation for a di-
vision of Grant county, the new county
TO embrace most of the territory north
of the range of mountains north of the
valley now lying in Grant county, and a
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-12-24

Baltimore cut into a monster plum
pudding and sent President Elect Cleve-
land "a twelve pound slice" 1t was
English" you know A duck or a
snipe pudding would have been more
Dointed
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-12-24

Democrats claim that is Cleveland
winter. 1t is pretty much such one
as followed his election eight years ago.
A sort of raralyzer, so to speak.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-12-24

There are several combinations on
foot for the speakership and presidency
of the senate. 1t is said they extend in
to the politics OF the future.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25

like grasp on my wrist. \ voice filled
with an agony Of emotion and suffering,
such as | hope never to hear again. cried
out: Fol- Gods sake, talk TO me" The
engineer was not yet dead. l could not
move. For ten minutes he held me by
the wrist. He uttered an awful strain Of
%blasphemy. it was simply horrible. He
raved Of the terrible penalty which he
and his associates on the freight train
had paid for their reckless drunkenness.
From what he said ] gathered that he.
the fireman, the feeder and the brakeman
on the freight train had all been drunk.
They had paid fearfully for their holiday
%cOnyivialty. While this was going on /
could see through the window a crowd
gathered outside about the burning cab
OF the engine. The darby feeder was
pinned down in such a way that 1t was
absolutely impossible to release him. He
was slowly being burned to death. and,
deliriOus with pain, he made the scene
still more weird with the most mournfuI
chanting OF negro hymns. 1t made an i'm
preston upon me that l can never forget.
NY Christmas days since then have been
a time Of Joy and feasting. but the day
never passes by in recurring years but
what the recollection OF that awful night
Is always made manifest and vivid TO me
despite the presence of kind friends and
all the happy surroundings so inseparably
associated with Christmas.
DE WOLF HOPPER.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25
Sot Exactly.

"Yes," said the man in the macintosh.
lighting another cigar. 1T was one al
the most remarkable cases / ever knew.
rheumatism for twenty-five years. Both
shoulders. Had 10 be fed like q little child.
Arms had hung helpless syer since / first
knew him. No use Of them whatever"
"And he was cured without meuicinei"
asked the man who had his feet on tue
table.
ENTIRELY without medicine"
cor Enimen.si" inquired the man with
the SLOUGH hat.
cor liniments either"
"And recovered the use Of his arms IN
one moment" observed the man with the
goggles on, in%credulously.
'In n moment, as il by miracle"
"pye heard of such things" remarked
the man in the shaggy ulster. "it WIS
under circumstances Of strong mental ex-
element, wasn't it2'
ayes"
81 thought 50. lie was Induced 10 be-.
lieve that he could be cured II be only
made the effort, wasn't hep
81 suppose so. Something Of that kind.'
"Then there's nothing strange alEut it.
The history Of medical practice Is full ~
such cases. It was only an instance Of
what they call faith cure"
NO" said the man in the macintosh
rehectively; you could hardly cal 10 Giant.
The cure was effected by a man vino met
him on a lonely road and said, Hold ~
your handsr And he held them up
Chicago Tribune.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25

A party of newspaper men n lawyer
were discussing amusing Typographical
errors when q veteran New York attorney
told Of a peculiar mistnke that had come
under his notice. made by n telegraph
operator;
Il was q young man ~ that time" ald
the lawyer, "and had a small Office across
the hall from a successful attorney 'yho
once in awhile befriended Inc. One day
was sitting in my office with my legs on
the tabls and chair tilted back, waiting
for clients and dreaming OF a sweet girl
known to me as Ella, who had been the
sweetheart Of my college days the year
before.
81 was startled from my reverie by a boy
with a message directed 10 me. IL WAS
from my fricsd across the WAY and dated
Chicago, but its contents made my brain
whirl. With Geographic breyity 1t said
ELLA is sweet. Don't delay. Take IL mp
and try it, was just considering the all
visibility OF a proposal. aBd my astonish-
ment can be imagined. My first impress
sions were that / was either asleep or the
Windy City had driven my friend insane.
But there was the messenger boy. SO / read
the telegram upside down, sideways and
every way | could see IL, and the hght
finally dawned On me. / took up a cour,
calendar. There il was, Ella vs.. Sweet
and my friend was named as the defend
ants attorney Buffalo Express.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25

been made to order In Europe. and was
exactly the size of my room and OF a de-
sign which just fitted.
The old marble mantel had been taken
out, and I'm place OF tt there was a hand
some tile shelf with a tile front and n
fireplace large enough and inviting tnouSh
TO delight the heart of any bachelor and
keep him at home nights. My large col
lection of owls had all been gathered to-
gether and was stationed on top OF the
beautiful cabinets and bookcases with
With my mother had lined my room.
The top-o of the dresser was covered with
red plush, ard on II were more silver
tri1es han / ever expected again 10 see
on any other mans bureau. The bed
stead had a black silk spread on 1t with
Japanese figures in raised gold. There
was a Japanese slumber coverlet so eX-
pensiye that l dared not guess how much
my mother had paid fer 1t. and In place
OF the ordinary bedroom chairs there
we're beautiful plush affairs. very elegant,
yet so comfortable in appearance that l
saw they were for every day use.
1 rubbed my eyes and stared about me.
Had / made a mistake and entered the
wrong house, And was | IN the room OF
perhaps some maiden fair who might re-
turn at any TIME n go into Mysteries at
n1IdlnS n strange man In her room !
Again stared around the room. Surely l
had made some mistake. Yet no, | was
correct. for there on the walls hung my
collection of old prints, and scattered
about were familiar landmarks which
told me 1t was my own room.
Just then my mother burst into the
room to wish me a Merry Christmas
for the clock a crept on to several min
utes past u.
How l thanked my mother for .'uch a
joyful surprise and how | Toasted my
eyes apo the handsome things which |
mad always longed to possess but which
1t had always seemed rank extravaganza
to buy.
And so, after all, my p'easantest Christ
mas Renaissance is the one in which my
mother transformed my room from a
plain, everyday affair into an Aladdin
bower. A. II HTTNMTI.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25

bernn. and the singing and dancing and
feasting and frolicking that had been
only a social necessity became something
very much different and very much hap
pier.
Then one happy night when IL was fu-
riously stormy outside n delightfully."-
peaceful and radiant inside willy Broom
told us all over again the glorious story
Of the taking Of the Passes-told 1t with
such fire and passion that every mar was
feeling for his sword and every woman
was listening with flaming cheeks and
tears like dew drops on them. And 1
know Il was hat night when this martial
story was finished that Willy told another
story TO Adelaide Plessy. n the end
of that story was the sraidest wedding
that had ever been seen by Fallowlees
or Otterburn.
1t is forty-nine years ago, and yet but
a few months since I met a gray-haired
woman who had been my companion at
Broom. and she recalled with me every
emotion and event, and added:
Yes, they were married, Willy and
Adelaide. and though some OF us have
been poorly used since. as far as l know
they lived happily ever afterward."
AMELIA r.. BARR.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25

West Haven, we smashed a farmers
wagon. The farmers horse baked just
clear OF the track. AMI he wouldn't bulge,
even whei. We whizzed down upon him.
The farmer jumped just in time. We
sped on. for we had not taken life. and
l ventured to gasp out:
How much will this trip cost me?'
You're alive. amt your" sang out the
engineer, as he ordered his feeder TO
shovel In more coal.
Five miles from New Haven we sighted
a hand-car on the track ahead. We had
Just passed a curve and couldn't stop In
time. We whistled and whistled, and the
car men jumped of into the ditch.
Duck your head" shouted the engi-
neer.
We ploughed through that big hand
car loaded with tools "a railroad para
phernalia. Axes and crowbar3 few about
that cab. and the cannonade lasted. II
seemed 10 me. fully two minutes. All the
glass In the cab was shattered, and what
was left OF the car was scattered about
the fields. We had to stop this time to
make some needed repairs. The collision
had nearly thrown the engine of the
track. but the great speed at which we
were running saved U.S.
Did I catch the expressf
Yes, slr'ee. The train was delayed at
Nav BAyan. anA I actually had time fer
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25

Christmas is the one day in the year
which above all others should be the
occasion Of family reunions and general
rejoicing. 1t is the mid-winter festival
when we should celebrate tho fact that
we are alive. i doubt II there be a man
living to-day who. having attained the
ripeness OF middle age. does not look
back upon the simple manner I'm which
Christmas was celebrated thirty or forty
years ago. and compare Il TO the present
decade very much to the disadvantage
OF the latter.
The pleasantest Christmas / ever passed
was at my old home in Ohio when / was
q boy, with no idea OF the honors and re-
sponsibiiues Of life.
l remember one occasion when the
sleighing was excellent-it was about the
winter Of 1850. think-when we were
ell together at the old home. Nothing
could ever erace the memory OF that day
from my mind. for TO us IL began on the
evening before and ended the morning OF
December 26th.
can see the old kitchen now where we
spent Christmas Eve together, cracking
nuts, pulling candy. with a pitcher OF
muiled cider on the table. while the
smoke begrimed walls and ceiling of the
quaint old room rang with laughter and
light hearted frolic. There was. ofcourse.
the usual contingent OF fddles-we never
called them Volins in those days-and
when the nuts were cracked and the
candy pulled the floor was cleared and
the fun ran riot in that old house until
nearly daylight. We danced, we sang
we told stories. we played the good old
fashioned kissing games like ~esnap-and
Catch-em." The Needles Eye, POST
ONCE and a dozen others that /
have forgotten. and the old folks enjoyed
uaem just as much as the young ones.
II was nearly daylight when we went
10 bed. but we were up and at IL again
bright and early Christmas morning lust
the same. 49,
l remember that there were a few SIM
pie presents exchanged. but IN those davs
such things were given more as rnemen-
toes imam Tor the purpose Of demonstrate
ing the status Of the donors fortune as
seems 70 DO the custom now. The nre-
sents hat pleased me most on the ocra.
non TO which l refer were a pair of sns-
penoers from my father and some soft
tniek mittens from my mother.
me morning was spent IN talking ever
0s nericu, tins Of the prsasdins risht
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25
An Actors Christmas.

ABOUT twelve years ago, Christmas
time, when my only ambition TN life was
TO see my name In big letters and my
Siamese face In refreshing roseate col
ors plastered over the country fences and
city binboards, / was enjoying my first ex-
p~erience as a manager and the head OF
a great comedy company. 1t was a great
show. but the public didn't seem TO be-
lieve II, and l was enthusiastically sink
ing my good inherited dollars In trying to
convince them. The play was called "One
Hundred Wives" a Western border, Nor
mon comedy drama. / had such clever
people in the company as George Drew
Barrymore, Ada Gilman and others equal
ly well known. We were doing the South
ern circuit. On the Saturday night before
Christmas, which fell on Sunday, we
played at Meridian, Miss, and were booked
TO play on the next night, which was
Christmas, in New Orleans. The passen-
ger train waited for III two hours after
the performance in order to get us TO
the Crescent City in time. l expected to
meet my partner and manager, Jacob
Goshe, at Mobile-about two hours ride
from Meridian. l thought l would enjoy a
ride on the engine by night, and obtained
permission to do so. | already had my
foot on the cab OF the engine and was
about to get on when William Harris, a
a. VA ~ NOAiBohsf NRNNN HfE ~ ~
up a game Of poker. Some bigoted peo-
pie may consider such diversion map
propriate and opposed to the religious
impressions and the sweet carolings OF
Christmas time, but my readiness to ac-
cept an invitation TO enjoy a
quiet game Of draw" saved my
life. An hour later our train ran into a
freight train on the State line between
Mississippi and Louisiana. TWO men on
o- r,..;,.. o,J fnnr ofhapc on thc frof~ht
engine were killed. The scene Of horror
and excitement that followed battles my
powers OF description. Tn engineer OF
the freight train was brought into our
sleeper. He was supposed to be dead.
and was put on an Impoverished berth.
one Of the wounded was carried into the
smoker. He was horribly burned, and a
call was made for some vaseline. I went
into the sleeper to get the article from
some of the girls in our company. Pass
Ing the berth Of the supposed dead engi-
neer l was startled by a cold and vice
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25
A Christmas in 4

Christmas has not only a personal fa-
vor: IL has a national one. derived from
some event which at that time fills the
public heart. on Christmas, 1913. l was
at Broom Hall. Northumberland. a girl
of nine years old, precociously observant
and sympathetic; therefore trembling and
weeping to the great interest Of the day
the sufferings and dangers OF women ana
children with the British army In Cabul.
! had heard the thrilling story OF the
struggle through the frozen pass or
Khoord-Cabul. 1 had followed in imagi-
nation the heroic death Of the army VINO
persisted to a man there amid It's hunger,
cold and treachery, and Of the women and
children who as hostages and prisoners
were hurried from fort to fort, while
Generals Sale and Pollock and Sir Rlch-
mond Shakespeare were forcing the khy-
Der Pass for their relief.
And lust before this Christmas had
come the news hat they had been saved
that the husbands and wives and chill