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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-14
SLAVERY IN PERU.
It Goes by Another Name, But Is Bondage
Pure and Simple.

It Goes by Another Name, But Is Bondage
Pure and Simple.
Slavery has no recognition in Peru
Wan law, but there are ways of main
,aining and explaining it not unworthy
Of some admiration for their cleverness-
Take, for instance, an established
chacra or hacienda-any hacienda. Ac-
.ording to law the Indian is free man
Certainly. Also, according to law, no
nan-white, mestizo or Indian-may
leave the place where he has contracted
debt until he has paid it, if his credit
DIS choose to enjoin (embarger) him
Now it happens that the Indians are all
and always heavily in debt to the owner
of the chacra where they live, and said
owners do choose to enjoin them
Wherefore, concludes Harper's Maga-
zine, the Indian remains perpetually
ambargoed. When the young Indian
has grown large enough to do what may
be regarded as a mans work he enters
service. He receives the habituai
recompense of nine soleS per month.
On this sum he cannot live. The master
knows it, the Indian knows it; but what
is to be done when such is the estab-
Iished stipend throughout the length
and breadth of the valley. The result
is, receiving none of the commonest
necessaries of life gratuitously, he over
draws from the first. A strict account
is kept of all that he obtains from his
master of food, clothing, implements
and knicknacls; papers of injunction
are duly served, and he is compelled to
work on day after day in satisfaction of
the debt
Consider another phase of the matter.
If a man desires to establish new
hacienda he can obtain all the land he
may need by simply ''denouncing'' it in
due legal form, occupying and building
house on it; but he cannot secure
laborers by spreading the rumor of his
wishes and summoning crowd of ap-
plicants from which to choose. For this
he must repair to some well-stoclzed
hacienda where there are Indians to
spare, pay the debts of such as he Sc
lects, thereby transferring the Indian
with his obligation and its attendant
bond of servitude from one master tc
another.
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eLuFFED BY A DUMMY.
Clever Scheme of an Old Timer to Ward |
Off the Law Minions.

Clever Scheme of an Old Timer to Ward
Off the Law Minions.
The Trinidad (Col.) Chronicle relates
an incident of Joe Simpson, an old
timer, who recently died in that city
Joe owned q piece of land near town, on
which he one day found a corps of sur
Teyors running line. He promptly
drove them off with 44-caliber re-
volver. a warrant was sworn out for
his arrest, but the deputy sheriff who
attempted to serve it was held up by
the furious frontiersman, his gun and
belt emptied and himself sent back tc
town quicker than he came.
Anticipating a visit from a posse OF
men, Simpson took an old suit OF
clothes. stuffed it with grass, placed the
dummy in chair at the door of his
cabin, surmounted the figure with a
wide-brimmed sombrero and arranged
a broom to give the innocent effigy the
appearance of preparing to send bullet
through any one who might approach
Simpson then hid in an adjacent corn
field and awaited developments. The
posse finally arrived, and, catching
sight of the figure in the doorway, held
a hurried consultation and finally beat
a retreat Simpson was a highly
amused spectator of the performance,
and the next day he came to town and
gave himself up.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-14
AZ The BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN.
wrecked Vessels and Drowned People Az
ways Sink to the Ground.

ways Sink to the Ground.
There is rather common but erro-
neous notion to the effect that human
body or even ship will not sink to the
bottom of the profounder abysses of
the ocean, but will, on account of the
density of the waters at great depth,
remain suspended at some distance
above the surface of the earth. This,
according to Scribner, is an error. No
other fate awaits the drowned sailor or
his ship than that which comes to the
marine creatures who die on the bot
tom of the sea-in time their dust all
passes into the great storehouse of the
aarth even as those who receive burial
Do the land. However deep the sea, 1t
Is but a few hours before the body of a
nan who finds his grave in the ocean is
at rest upon the bottom; it there re-
ceives the same swift service from the
agents which, in the order of nature,
are appointed to care for the dead, as
comes to those who are reverently in
aumed in blessed ground. All save the
hardest parts of the skeleton are quick
ly taken again into the realm of the
living, and even those more resisting
portions of the body are, in large part,
appropriated by the creatures of the sea
lOOI. 81 OIItD OC1OIO CIIC NluSO 1Ctu1 ho III
5he accommodating water to the frm-set
earth it may pass through an extended
cycle of living forms.
The fate of animal bodies on the sea
floor is well illustrated by the fact that
beneath the waters of the gulf stream,
where it passes southern Florida, there
are in some places quantities of bones,
apparently those of the manitee, or sea-
cow, a large herbivorous mammal,
which, like the seal, has become
adapted to aquatic life; these creatures
olentifully inhabit the tropical rivers
which flow into the Caribbean sea, and
are, though rarely, found in the streams
Of southern Florida. At their death
they drift out into the open water ano
are swept away to the northward by
she ocean current. For some weeks,
perhaps, the carcasses are buoyed up by
the gases of decomposition which are
retained by their thick, oily skins; as
these decay and break the bodies fall.tc
the bottom.
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EXECUTORS SALE,

Notice is hereby given that, in pursuance of
an order of the County Court of the State OF Ore
Ron for Wasco county, made on the 7th day OF
May, 1884, the undersigned, executors of the last
will and testament of II. staley, deceased, Will
on the
23d day of June, 1894.
at the hour of two O'Clock in the afternoon of
said day. at public auction, sell upon the prem
ises hereinafter described, all of the real estate
belonging to the estate of said deceased, to-wit:
The northeast quarter of the northwest quar-
ter, the south half of the northwest quarter, and
the west half of the northeast quarter of section
twenty-four, township four south, range twelve
east of the Willamette meridian, situated in
Wasco county, OREGON, to the highest bidder for
cash in hand. q. SAVAGE.
T. J. DRIVER,
w. n. McCORKLE,
m w. R. CAHTRELL,
my26td and C. J. VAN DUYN.
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1hE PREvENTloN CURE.
Preserving the Health OF Schoolboys by
Daily Attention to Their Condition.

Preserving the Health OF Schoolboys by
Daily Attention to Their Condition.
"a Headmaster's Wife, in an uncom-
monty sensible letter to London
paper, describes a plan whereby the
health of schoolboys or young col
legians can be more thoroughly taken
care of than is usual. In normal school
practice all boys reported sick'' are
excused from football and other sports,
but the question is, to what extent
must a sehoolboy feel ailing before he
reports himself sick? 1t is the very
pluck that one admires in boys that
generally works the mischief, and they
often will ot complain until the delay
has more or less seriousl- aggravated
the case.
Though so unready to report himself
''siclz,'' boy will usually admit that
he ''does not feel very gay if the
question is put to him directly, and it
is this fact that has given rise to
system which has been found to an
swer excellently well. One boy in
each dormitory is appointed to report
each night upon the condition of the
boys in his dormitory. He writes on a
slip of paper: ''All well in such and
such dormitory,n and adds the date,
or: ''Al well except so and so, who
complains of this or that malaise.''
These slips are placed nightly on the
desk of the lady manageress.
Suppose that boy complains of
headache or sore throat, he is at once
summoned, the slight ailment is in
quired into, simple remedy ordered,
and in nine cases out of ten nothing
more is heard of the matter. If, how
ever, it seems to be case of chill, the
boy is kept warm in the sick room for
a day or two.
81 am convinced says the Head
masters Wife, ''that being kept warm
for day or two often wards off seri-
Gus illness, and in this opinion am
supported by one of the most eminent
of London physicians. A plan some
thing analogous to this might be car
ried on in nearly all educational insti-
tutions. The preventive takes only
day or two, the cure may take weeks,
and that means serious loss of valua
BILE work and possibly precarious
health for years to come"
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a RUSSIAN BELL.
Returned to It's Old Homo After a Ba
ishment of Thrcc Centuries.

Returned to It's Old Homo After a Ba
ishment of Thrcc Centuries.
A distinguished Siberian exile snugly
packed in a wooden boz and honored
with the regretful farewells of whole
population has j-st been returned to
European Russia under an escort of a
committee CT citizens glad to receive it
back after its many privations. The
said exile is no other than the famous
bell of Uglich, banished to Tobolsk in
1898 by order Of Gar Boris Godunoff
for having rung the signal for the in
surrection in Uglich st the time of
the assassination cf Crown Prince
Dimitri. Writing of 1t IN his book Mr..
Kennan says: ''Thc c-,ilcd bell has
been purged of its iniquity, has received
ecclesiastical consecratioc, and now
calls the orthodox peoplc,c cf Tobolsk to
prayers. The inhabitont3 CT Uglich
have recently been trying to recover
their bell upon the plea that it has
been sufficiently punished by three
centuries of exile for its political un-
trustworthiness in 1898, and that it
ought now to be allowed to return H.,
its home. The mayor of Tobolsls argues
that the bell was exilcd for life, and
that consequently its term Of Danish
ment has not yet expired. He contends,
furthermore, that even admitting the
original title of the Uglich people, three
centuries of adverse possession by the
city of Tobolslz have divcstcd the
claimants of all their rights, and that
the bell shall be allowed to remain
where it is. The question, it is said,
will be carried into the I,ussicn courts. :"
The latest news from Tobolsk, besides
showing that a decision has been
reached in favor of USlicl., illustrates,
says Free Russias, the ioconsequcntial
character cf Russian justice, which
closes its tribunals to the wrongs of
thousands of sufferers in Siberia and
opens them to miserable squabble
about a bell
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MUTE SOLDIERS.
a Military Company Composed OF
Deaf and Dumb Members.
The Drilling Is Conducted Entirely by
Signals and the Work Performed
Is Described Simply
Wonderful.

The only deaf-mute military company
in the world is now the leading attrac-
ton at the Illinois institute for deaf
mutes at Jacksonville, ILL.,, and the
work performed by this silent company
is simply wonderful. Every member of
the company, with the exception of the
captain, is deaf and dumb. A few years
ago DIR. Gillett, the superintendent, en-
ployed as storekeeper George HI. Sour
lock, pupil of the state normal school
at Carbondale. Mr.. Scurloclz at once
began the study of the sign language,
and in due time made himself familiar
with that difficult mode of communica-
ton. He put it to a use little dreamed
of by the superintendent or the trus-
tees. At the university he had been
drilled in military tactics by Lieut.. C.
G. Starr. of the United States army, and
he conceived the idea one day of form
ing n company from the pupils of the in
stitution.
The first thing to be done was to in
vent a code of signs representing the
orders given in the marching, drill and
manual of arms, and to this he bent his
energies for some weeks, and at last
had it so far perfected that he deemed
it safe to begin his experiment.
1t was early in the spring of 1891 that
he collected thirty boys together and
told them his plans, and they at once
entered into the idea with all the eager
ness of youth.
Some of his signs are as follows:
''About facc!'' is given by raising the
hand and making the letter '.r,'' which
is by holding the index finger behind
the middle one and then turning the
hand round. s'Right facer' is by hold
ing the hand up and turning it to the
right, ard Left facet" by the reverse
movement. Forward march!' by ex-
tending the hand forward on d level
''Halt!' L. I: simple cut with the sword
or the letter ''h," which is made by ex-
tending the first two fingers forward
''Fours!' right or left, by holding the
hand up and the fingers separated and
then turning them to the right or left
as the case may be. Form triangle, -
by pointing the index finger toward
| each. Form square, by indicating
the side of square with the hands in
the proper position. ITO the rear" by
holding the open hand up and quickly
| reversing it. ''Marl1 time,' by drawing
the right hand slowly over the other
| hand, doubled up into 4 fist. ''Right
DRESS" by two fingers pointed in the di-
rection desired, and as explained, these
| and many more constitute the code of
preparatory signs or orders and when
| the captains sword goes up they are
executed.
The more intricate orders are given
by combination of signs. All the drill
is executed as promptly as by hearing
soldiers and it will be readily seen that
quick eye is necessary and a close at
tention to business. The cadets never
| turn their heads, but maintain true
soldierly bearing, and when they or any
| of them are SO situated that they can't
see the captain the order is repeated as
quick as flash.
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sHERIFF's SALE.

Notice is hereby given that under and by vir
tue of an execution issued out of the Circuit
Court of the State of Oregon, for the County of
Wasco, in an action heretofore pending, where
in Martha Perkins plaintiff and A. Wilson
was defendant, in favor of said Martha Perkins,
plaintiff, and against said A. Wilson, defendant,
and George Krauss, surety, 1 did on the oath day
of April, 1894, duly levy upon and will on Satur-
day,
at the hour of two O'Clock P. NJ. of said day,
sell at public auction at the front door of the
county court house in Dalles City, ,Wasco County,
Oregon, to the highest bidder for cash in hand,
all of the following described real estate, towit
The south half of the northeast quarter (614 of
the NE1Ij, and the south half of the northwest
quarter (S1S of the NW1z) of section two (2), in
township one u north of range fourteen Q4
east of the Willamette meridian, containing one
hundred and sixty (160) acres, together with the
tenemeuts, hereditaments and appurtenances
thereunto belonging or in any wise appertain-
ing, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to
satisfy the of $3.50; together with interest
on said sum at the rate of per cent per annum
from the 5th day of March. 1894, and the further
sum of $10522 costs of said action, and also the
accruing costs and expenses of sale.
Dated at Dalles City, Wasco County, Or this
Slh day of May, 1894. I. A. WARD,
my19 Sheriff of wasco County, Oregon.
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ON THE sAReAsso SEA.
A German IIareographer Has Sailed There
and Knows All About 1t.

A German IIareographer Has Sailed There
and Knows All About 1t.
The Sargasso sea, or floating masses
of gulf weed in mid-Atlantic, which inn
peded the ships of Columbus four hun
dred years ago, according to the London
Globe, has been the subject of careful
study by DIR. Krumrnel, n German mare
ographcr, who takes u different view of
its origin from that commonly accepted
He shows, to begin with, that the sea is
much more extensive than Humboldt
supposed. The middle or thicllest part
is elliptical in form, the great axis
lying along the tropic of cancer and the
foci at forty-fve degrees and seventy
degrees west longitude. Around this are
more extensive but thinner accumula-
tions of the weed, which vary with the
prevailing winds.
The gulf weed (fucus natans), which,
with its little round berries is not
unlike the mistlctoe in form, but of a
brownish-yellow color, has been thought
to have lost its property of roofing on
rocks and to have acquired the power of
living afioat. 1t has even been suggest
ed that the sea marks the site of a sub
merged continent, apparently the lost
Atlantis DIR. Krummel holds that the
weed has simply been drifted to its pres
ent position by the gulf stream and its
affiuents from the West Indian islands
and the gulf of Mexico. It is now proved
that the gulf stream is not q single
narrow "river of the ocean," as Maury
POLITICALLY described it, but consists of a
number of currents not only from the
Mexican gulf but the Antilles. The
weed, according to DIR. Krummel, would
take fifteen days to float as far north as
the latitude of Cape Hatteras and five
and a half months to reach the Azores.
In the Sargasso sea it becomes heavy
and sinks, but the supply is kept up by
the gulf stream. DR.. Krummel is GER
tainly right in giving the Sargasso sea
a much wider area than Humboldt did
and than our maps usually portray. 1t
has been encountered some two or three
hundred miles northeast of Barbados;
but whether this weed is solely carried
from the West Indies and the gulf Il
perhaps open to doubt.
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SOMETHING ABOUT BLONDES
An Observing Gotham Conductor Says
They Are Careless About Their Hair.

An Observing Gotham Conductor Says
They Are Careless About Their Hair
She was a big, tall blonde, Will
square shoulders, narrow waist, pat
ent leather shoes and q swaggcr air th;:
would have taken the train along ly IL
self. She got in the car 1T -CW2-.t.JyT
eighth street, got off at Fou-'tccat.l
street, and between the two station
she picked up four hairpins from thc
cross seats of the car and hid them il
her taffy-colored back hair. The big
brakeman in charge of the car said to (:
New York Telegram Reporter while he
stood near the platform: ''Did ycu sec
the big blonde pick up the hairpins:
Well, there are great many women
who do that same thing every day, and
there are some of them that we know
simply because they seem to find pleas
ure in taking odd hairpins and using
them"
''Are there so many hairpins to be
found on the elevated cars?'' asked the
reporter.
why, their name is legion" said
Ned, land most of them are to be found
either early in the morning or late IL
the afternoon. 1t is peculiar how many
of these same hairpins, which are found
all over the car seats, are the gilt ones
used by blondes. 1t is generally sup
posed that there are three brunettes to
one blonde, yet it is peculiar fact that
we pick up more hairpins for the use OF
blondes in the elevated cars than we dc
black ones, and that is the reason that
the lady who just got out of the car
found SO many hairpins that she could
use."
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Examining Newspaper Mem.

: The Institute of Journalists at Lon
don has recommended that candidates
for admission to membership shall pass
an examination. Subjects of examina-
ton shall be: The English language
and literature, English political and
constitutional history, political and
physical geography, Latin and either
French or German, universal history
and the principles of the law of news
paper libel. If the proposal be adopted
there will be in future no recognized
journalist in London that cannot boast
of a very fair liberal education.
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MAKES ITSELF FELT
the great, gripping, old-fash-
ioned pill. Not only when
you take it, but unpleasant,
from first to last, and it only
does little temporary good.
The things to take its place
are DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pei
lets. One Of these at a dose
will regulate the whole system
perfectly. They're tiny, sugar
coated granules, scarcely
larger than mustard seeds.
They act in Natures own
way. No, reaction afterward.
Their help lasts and they do
permanent good. Constipa-
ton, Indigestion, Bilious At
tacks, Sick or Bilious Head
aches, and all arrangements
of the liver, stomach, and
bowels are prevented, re-
lieved, and cured.
They're the cheapest, for
they're guaranteed to give
satisfaction or money is re-
turned. Nothing can be "just
as good"
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canadians in the united states.

According to LIE Guide Francois des
Etats Unis, the French Canadians in
the United States own S1O5, ,32S, 500
worth of real estate, and 1906 of them
are in business for themselves. There
are now 200 French Canadians in
the United States, half million of
whom are in New England and New
York. The number of French
Canadians in Canada is 1,TO0, 600.
though when England acquired Can
ada they only numbered 65 200, a fact
which strikingly indicates the fecund-
ity of the race. In Boston they num-
Der II 200, and in various parts of New
England they have fourishing schools
and societies, and they now talk of es-
tablishing college. They have repre-
sentatives in the legislatures of five
states, and they have nine newspapers
in New England and New York. ''In
politics." says the authority quoted,
t'the majority are republicans, though
good many are democrats. They are
naturally conservative. They favor
order, discountenance radical views or
experiments, and oppose strikes ano
secret societies. They also strenuous1y
oppose divorce
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WHENCE CAME THE FRoesq

A Recent Shower il Now Jersey Sug-
gests Some Scientific Speculation.
During thunderstorm in New Jer-
sey the other day it trained frogs to
such an extent that, according to the
testimony of multitudinous witnesses,
the streets of Port Morris were alive
with hundreds of these creatures
Here's state of things which the Bos-
ton Globe says science can no more ex-
plain to-day than it could two thou
sand years ago. 1t is still said, of
course, that these frogs were sucked up
in marshes and carried into the clouds,
but no human being ever yet saw frog
thus taken up, and it is odd that moth
ing is ever raised to eminence' in this
way except the frog, though plenty of
other living things may be near by all
ready to be sucked up.
A good many observers hold to the
curious and interesting opinion that
under certain very rare electrical con-
ditions life seems generated spon
taneously. The frog is peculiarly
electrical creature, and in fact first
suggested the existence of animal mag
netism as distinct force to science. If
any animal could be thus suddenly and
strangely called into being it might
well be the frog. Now that the univer-
sity extension professors are about set
ting to work teaching the people
science, it would be interesting to hear
them explain mysteries such as the de-
scent of frogs, which has been the talk
of Port Morris and all the region round
ab0ut
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

U.s LAND oYF1cE, The Dalles, Or.,l
May /, 1894.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof In support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before the register
and receiver of the u. 8. Land ONCE at The
Dalles, Or, on June 16, 1894, viz:
Ferdinand Westerman,
Homestead No. 1867, for sEL SEL, Sec. 81, Tp 8
S. r Is and NWL NW1z, Sec. 5, Up. 4 8. x 13 e.
He mrrnes the following witnesses to prove his
said land, VIZ:
Geo Maioy, B. D. Pitcher, Henry sweigler,
Thomas Jefffies, Tygr Valley, Or.
mays JOHN W. LEWIS, Register.
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In a Cows stomao,,.

IN the stomach of a COW which waa
outcnered at Washington Court House.
u the following articles were found.
several nails two and three inches
long, screws, brass nails, carpet tacks
and number ofIsmall stones. There
was fully a quart of these articles in
the cows stomach. Tue COW was sc-
Parently in good health before beiES
butchered-