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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-05
FIERCE FOREST FIRES
Raging Near Brainerd and
Little Falls.
HEAVY RAINS ALONE WILL SAVE
Thrilling story OF the Run Through
Fiery Furnace--Fires Raging
in New York State.

ST. PAUL, Sept. At seems the worst
danger now in Minnesotais is to the south
east of Brainerd and Little Falls, and
that section is being watched anxiously.
The Northern Pacific reports that along
the line from Little Falls to Cutting
three small stations have been burned.
Timber through that section is on fire,
and fire is raging furiously north of
Brainerd and Little Falls. As the tim
Der in that section is much heavier than
where the fires ragged in the pine coun-
try, railroad officials say nothing can
save the whole country but very heavy
rains.
Omaha has reports from Washburn
that the fires have thus far been con-
fined to the outskirts of the city, and
only a few lumber mills and yards on
the edge of the town have been de-
stroyed. A heavy wind would quickly
fan the flames and carry them through
the country and possibly into the town.
Train service on all the lines between
st. Paul and Duluth has been restored,
except in Eastern Minnesota. The first
train to arrive here from Duluth left the
, head of the lake Sunday evening. The
passengers reported the towns of Bar
ronette, Bashaw and Comstock COM
pletely destroyed. At Shell Lake about
fifty-eight houses have been burned.
Duluth is taking care of about 1000
refugees and sending supplies to the
front as fast as the citizens can collect
them.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-05

Don't buy blood purifier because it
is "cheap." The best-the Superior
Medicine-Ayer's sarsaparilla, is in the
end, the cheapest blood purifier in the
market. The ingredients of which it is
composed are the most expensive and
incidentally eficacious that can be OBJ
tanned.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-05
still Raging Near Brainerd.

BRA1NERD, Mimi, Sept. 4.-The coun-
try to the north and northeast of this
city is still burning furiously. The fires
have expended their fury in the imme-
diate vicinity of Brainerd. Thousands
of tons of hay have been consumed in
Grow Wing county and many farmhouses
DESTROYED.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-05

Arsenic and quinine are dangerous
drugs to accumulate in ones system,
and it is to be hoped that these poisons,
as a remedy for ague, have had their
day. Ayers Ague Cure is sure anti
dote for the ague, is perfectly safe to
take, and is warranted to cure.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-05

DuNK1RK, N. Y, Sept. forest fres
are raging in this vicinity. Men, women
and children are fighting the flames day
and night. Thousands of dollars worth
of property is burned. The village of
Fredona was threatened.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-05
In New York state.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Sept. 4.-Fires in
Chautauqua county are sweeping through
the meadows, woods and farms. Num-
bers of families barely escaped with
their lives. They have organized a
bucket brigade to keep the flames from
burning houses. In the vicinity of Win
dom, forest fires are raging. The farm
ers are plowinG to check the flames.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-05

DETROIT, Sept. "A dispatch from
the upper peninsula of Michigan shows
the rainfall of last night effectually
stopped the forest fires and will save
millions OF feet of pine, besides crops and
houses. The damage already done, how
ever, is immense, and in many localities
a total loss can only be avoided by an
immediate cutting OF the timber. There
is considerable evidence that many fires
were set by men who knew the scorched
pine would have to be cut at once, thus
giving them work. The fires will also
force into the market much pine that
was held by the Noon Logging capitalists
for the purpose of speculation. 1t is
thought nearly every foot of standing
pine in Ontonagon county is burned,
fully 500, 900, 600 feet.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-05

"You heartless girl, how could you re-
ject Mr.. Blimber?" Edith-How did
you know I had? ST met him just as he
was leaving, and he looked SO radiantly
happy. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-05

A. NJ. Bailey, well-known citizen of
Eugene, Or, says his wife. has for years
been troubled with chronic diarrhna
and used many remedies with little relief
until she tried Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera:and diarrhea Remedy, which
has cured her sound and well. Give it
trial and you will be surprised at the
prompt relief it affords. 25 and so cent
bottles for sale by Blakeley & Houghton
Druggists.
The record-union., 1894-03-24

the New York Outlook. "If churches
are to be represented on that board. the
Roman Catholic Church should have its
representative. If denominational dis
tlnctions are to be ignored, prominent
and worthy Roman Catholics ought not
to be excluded because they belong TO
that church. But we are amazed that
Republican Legislature should think of
electlng Bishop McQuaid of Rochester,
not because he is Roman Catholic
Bishop, but because he is perfectly frank.
open and avowed enemy to the public
school system. We do not complain
OF this If he thinks that the State is
incompetent to educate its own youth,
ana that the work of education should be
transferred to the church or the churches;
ne has perfect right TO advocate this
position, and to endeavor to persuade the
people of the State to his way of think
Ing. But so long as the people of the
state undertake to carry on a system of
pubic instruction, that system should be
under the control of those who believe
IN 1t and desire to make it as efficient as
possible. 1t is well-known that there
are at the present time two parties in the
Roman Catholic Church upon this sub
Ject. Bishop McQuaid is one of the
leaders of the party hostile to the public
school system. That party ought not to
seek, and certainly ought rot to receive,
representation on the Board of Regents.
The record-union., 1894-03-24

horG-neG-translated "a beautiful young
woman" or "a new country; Dtor-
ne9d-"beautiful adultery; Kuiu-phOrd-
7ea, hatoS-p phOTReao and knIa-chora-7,ed
from the same root. Whatever may have
been Montalvo's derivation of the word,
all these forms fail utterly in probability of
historical application; for as Mr.. Arch
bald observes, the manner was probably
unfamiliar with both Greek and Latin,
and, secondly, he would naturally have
used his native tongue.
The Spanish and Latin mixture ctLn u
fornfr has been quoted from the Jesuit D.
Giuseppe Compoi by Clavigero. This
might be interpreted: "a little cove by
the sea with concave root" Cronise
offers this explanation: within Cape st.
Lucas (near where Grixalva is supposed
to have landed) there is a little cove of
the sea- near which there was a rock so
worn oy the waves that its upper part
was hollow, like 'vaulted roof.'n This
remarkable piece of constructive etym-
ology may be passed as more improba-
bic than the former, if not, indeed, quite
ridiculous
There was a favorite idea in Northern
California that the word was of Indian
origin: but as to its derivation there was
little agreement. Bancroft cites +. d..
Guilbert as saying that an old Indian
called the peninsula "Tchali-falni-al," or
The sandy land beyond the water" 1t
would oubtIeSS be pleasant II this theory
could be established and consist
emily accepted. The Indian theory,
however, seems to be very neatly
exploded by Mr.. Archibald "How did
the author of the romance, written in or
before the year 1910, hear of the Indian
name, supposing it To have been in ex-
lstence in the country? In short the hy
pothesls must be given up; it has nothing
like ground enough to rest uDOO -
Alter crIticisIng the principle suggeS-
tions of other authorities Mr.. Archibald
''out- Herods Herod'' by setting forth his
own most ingenious hypothesis. which
one is prone TO look upon as a piece OF
antique humor. He goes the length OF
suggesting the name Calphurnia, Caesars
wiie's name, as having been preserved
by tradition and applied by this Spanish
romancer to his imaginary island, and
thence by the discoverer to the western
country. The suggestion seems to lack
seriousness, but serves to show what far
fetched hypotheses may be constructed
and given show Of plausibility.
Father Filipe Arroyo alleges that colo-
JoTn1d, Spanish for rosin, was applied
from the great number of rosinous trees
the discovererS saw on landing, leading
them to cry out, ''Colofornia ~ The ab-
surdity of this theory is complete when
one remembers that the country discov-
cred is one Of the most treeless, most
barren sections of the entire coast
RecOllecting the barrenness of the sec
ton discovered, and assuming that the
name was obtained from the Spanish ro-
nance, what was the fitness OF applying
the name of a fanciful island whose
only metal was gold, and whose
jewels were like the rocks of the field
for abundance? Because California
was real Ell dorado? But the anach-
ronism reveals such a blunder to be un-
pardonable. More likely the intense de-
sire Tor gold than it's actual discovery, or
The record-union., 1894-03-24

What does she do in that mysterious region
Beyond the illiInitable, far-otf blue?
Beyond the snowy cloudlets' wandering legion
What can she do?
The record-union., 1894-03-24

the application as an omen of wealth
hoped Tor. But neither seems likely,
although Mr.. Blackmar asserts that
from the time that the supposed island
of the Pacific was named California there
were floating rumors of vast fields of
gold in this famous country"
Cronise suggests that Grixalto, an ofli-
Ger of Cortes', to whom he ascribes the
honor of the discovery, may have read
the romance, and finding what he sup
posed to be all island while sailing ito
ward the terrestrial paradise" along the
Mexican coast, which is ION the right
hand of the Indies,r he or some COM
panion called it California-not because
it answered to the description in the ro-
nance. but 10 secure an additional inter-
est III the discovery by giving it a name
that possessed the attraction created by
that popular work." The fact that
Cronise remarks that ''they must have
drawn on their Imagination immensely"
shows that he looks upon his own sug-
gestion rather as one of an indefinite
number of hypothetical explanations
than as an adequate solution.
Bancroft suspects that the name was
applied in derision to the island by colon
lists of Cortes in 1886, on their return from
following the coast round to India, as he
supposed, confident as he was of finding
rich and wonderful isles on tie way.
DIS Is apparently duOluer guess dI LHe
inexplicable ble-eyeryb body may take his
turn.
Without venturing either guess, sus-
picion, or suggestion Of my own, L may
be permitted to remark in conclusion
that, in my humble opinion, deductiye or
speculative, reasoning will be forever i'm
potent in the correct explication of these
two perplexing questions-namely, the
true etymology of the name California,
and the reason for its anrljcatiOT n tla
newly discovered territory. Unfortu-
nately the precluding of the possibility of
brilliant chronological theories" has not
been brought about, as in the case of
Calistoga to be a combina-
ton of California ana Saratoga.
Unless the riddles can be solved by actual
and authentic record, they will simply
remain unsolved; and any further guesses
will render deeper the already ineXpli-
cable mystery.
ROCKWELL d. HUNT "a. NJ.
Baltimore, Md.
The record-union., 1894-03-24

What is she like, our little three years bless
ing?
Have the short rings upon her forehead fair
Heightened to curls, her maiden form caress-
ing
The record-union., 1894-03-24
Under Them circumstances.

The tramp got away from the dog, but
the dog got half of his wearing apparel as
he cleared the'gate.
"Why didn't you run when you seen
him comin'?" inquired his partner, when
they had reached a safe place.
"Run nothin'," he said Indignantly.
"Under them circumstances what a man
needs is wings"
The record-union., 1894-03-24
QUEsTIoNINGs.

Where has she been? Ten winters SHOWS
have drfted
Over that baby grave so small, so low;
Ten summers grasses have their green plumes
lifted,
Where is she now?
What does she do in that mysterious region
Beyond the illimitable, far-otf blue?
Beyond the snowy cloudets wandering legion
What can she do?
What is she like, our little three years bless
ing?
Have the short rings upon her forehead fair
Lengthened to curls, her maiden form caress-
ing
In that bright air?
Say, was she lonely, just single moment,
Amid the heavenly children at their play?
Did she remember us she loved so dearly
single day?
Who is her teacher, thou. dear household
Whose radiant image rises through our
tears?
Hast thou the baby footsteps watched and
All these long years?
Is 1t thy hand she holds as she is singing
All the sweet hours the wide, bright gardens
through?
Is it thy voice that chimes amid her singing
Like drops of dew?
Oh, idle questions Dearest Lord and Savior.
Thine arms received her in her childish glee.
And the blest hope that whispers of her living
Is born of thee.
1t is enough. Within thy care enfolded,
More than we dare to dream or ask to know
Is hers. We rest upon the gracious promise,
And leave her so.
Trusting the love that shields It's own forever,
Believing we shall find the child again,
And questioning not the wherefore or the
whether,
The how or when.
Susan Coolidge
The record-union., 1894-03-24
CARL UPMANN GETS THE AWARD.

The Worlds Columbian Exposition
Gave Carl Upmann's Famous New
York Cigars
Highest award for quality, workmanship and
general appearance over all competitors
These goods are manufactured by expert
Union hand-workmen only, and every box
bears the Cigarmalzers' International Union
Blue Label, which is a guarantee of excellence
III every department of this great factory.
The record-union., 1894-03-24

Chaucer wrote nearly five centur les
ago. The first complete edition of his
verse and prose is now promised.
The record-union., 1894-03-24
FInanciaI Grnmmnl

Teacher-"In the sentence Time is
money can you parse money!"
Scholar es'm, if it is good money"
The record-union., 1894-03-24

Upon her neighbours hat she gazed
Awhile with look intent.
And IN these terms the structure praised,
Its sgrand-magnihcent."
Life isn't all lilies and clover,
But-no use to kick up a row;
Don't grIeve over the mint you've turned
over
While there's hay in the loft for the COW!
Atlanta Constitution.
The record-union., 1894-03-24

The earlier symptoms of dyspepsia,
such as distress after eating, heartburn
and occasional headaches, should not be
neglected. Take Hoods Sarsaparilla if
you wish to be cured.
Hoods Pills cure all liver ills, bilious
ness. iaundice. Indigestion. sick headache.
The record-union., 1894-03-24

SIT is quite right that Roman Catho-
lie should be elected upon the Board of
Regents of New York State," observes
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-30
DuMMERST

Nine young persons were received as &C
tive members of the Christian Endeavor
society last Sunday evening.
The "lamb" had a triumphal March
for three weeks. but the "lion' took the
lead at the beginning of the present week.
Miss Abbie c. Billings, the visiting
evangelist. who has been in Dummerston
nearly six weeks, holding a series of meet
ings which has awakened much interest,
left on Wednesday of this week for a new
field of labor in Montgomery in the north
part of the state
The school directors met on March %
and appointed d. L. Mansfield chairman
and clerk of the board and Miss Minnie
Z. Laughton town superintendent OF
schools. 1t was voted to have the spring
term of schools begin April Is and con-
tinue ten weeks. The former superntend-
ent of schools, who has been in that serv-
ice % years, is pleased to recommend Miss
Laughton, his successor, as fully compe-
tent in education and experience in teach
ing for the work to which she has been APP
pointed. He is also grateful to the citi-
zens of Dummerston for retaining him SC
long in an important and responsible serv-
ice, which has covered a period of a quar-
ter of a century. The service has been
continuous since his first election in March
1869, except two years during the county
system of schools.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-30
VERNON

Mrs. Allyn Stebbins of Fitchburg is
visiting at Geo. Stebbinss.
Willie Heard commences work for j. G..
Weatherhead next Monday
Leroy Bond of Brattleboro is moving in
to Mr.. Akley's grove house.
J. A. Browns horse died last Thursday
1t was an "old friend" to the family, being
81 years old.
The ladies' circle will hold their annual
meeting with Mrs. \. Withheld next Wed
nesday afternoon.
Elder L. B. Rockwell of Newton, Mass,
will preach in the chapel next Sunday at
1890 \. NJ. and ! 80 =. NJ.
Ernest G. Hubbard is devoting his time
and attention to caring for fine case of
measles. but is willing to pass them along.
Miss Ellen Brown is having a weeks va
cation. She will continue attending North
street school in Brattleboro next term.
Miss Jennie Mosley will also attend the
North street school
Eta and Roland Stebbins attended the
funeral OF their cousin, VIM. Goodrich
only son of II. a. Goodrich, at Fitchburg
on Monday. He was a member of the
senior class at Tufts college, where he had
accepted position as one of the professors
and was TO assume the duties at the begin
ming of the mex, college year in September.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-30
Miss lucy Work is nuite low.

Miss Lucy Work is quite low.
Miss Jennie Day has gone to work at
Brattleboro.
The reading circle met at j. c. Dag
gets Monday evening.
The ladies industrial society met Thurs
day with Mrs Nora Muzzy.
Miss Grace Sherwin has gone to Winch
endon, Mass, to spend some time.
f. L. Sprague is in the north part of the
state on business, selling evaporators.
Mrs. Flora Howard is on an extended
visit with relatives at Chicopee Falls,
Mass.
Miss Mary Cheney. who has been attend
ing school at Brattleboro has returned
home.
Rollo Puffer of Windham has rented one
of the houses near the depot, and will take
possession soon.
In giving the names of the graduates of
the Loyal Temperance legion Florence
Muzzy's name was left out through mis-
take.
Mrs. Cote, with her family and goods,
have gone to Gloversville, y. y, to Join
her husband who has been there for some
time
y
East Jamaica, Tuesday, March 20, of con
sumption at the age of s. years. The
| funeral was held at the house Thursday,
Rev Z. b. Earle officiating.
The pastor will preach two sermons next
| Sunday. The morning subject will be
| "Faith.' The evening sermon will be on
'Men for the times, and will be especial
| ly for men, though all are invited.
Luther Densmore died at the home of
| his daughter, Mrs. Gleason, Thursday,
March %, OF paralysis, at the age of s.
years and 10 months. The funeral service
was held Saturday at the house where he
| died, Elder Kimball officiating.
The Loyal Temperance legion met at F.
w. Perry's Tuesday evening, when the fol-
lowing officers were elected: President
John S. Robinson; vice president, Eva
Wolcott; secretary, Cora Amsden treas
urer, Edith Clark; organist, Mamie Per
ry; assistant organist, Florence Muzzy.
| The legion will meet at J. c.. Robinsou's
next Tuesday evening, April ,.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-30
WILLIAMSVILLE.

II. T. Sparks has 1900 trees tapped.
About - attended the sociable Friday
evening
Archie Herrick of Dummerston is at
work for d. A. Dickinson.
Mrs. Alice Morse is spending the week
with her daughter Florence, in Southbridge,
Mass.
William Calvin and friend from Rip
ton spent Sunday with Mr.. Galvin's sister,
Mrs f. r. Willard.
At the request of several, another soci-
able will be held in schoolhOuse hall Fri
day evening, April 6.
Mrs. Alice Newton and daughter are
spending the week with Mrs. Newton s
father, d. d. Dickinson
Lila Park. Florence Sparks and Clyde
Adams are home from Miss Sawyer S
school for a weeks vacation.
The y. p. c. U. will hold their next
meeting at 10:45 Sunday morning. Leader,
John Williams: topic, "energy."
Henry Bowker of Rochester, n. Y, is
here to assist in caring for his mother,
Mrs. D. W. Fisher, who is very low.
For the first time for many years there
are more families than tenements, and
some fear they Will be obliged to leave the
village for want of a home.
The services at the Universalist church
on Sunday morning, as well as the Easter
concert in the evening. were well attended.
Rev, W. P. Burnell will preach here again
April 5.
The lecture given by a. J. Pullen on
Monday evening drew "a large audience for
this place, and many expressed themselves
as much pleased. Mr. and Mrs. Pullen
left pleasant impressions among the people
here.
c. O'Leary OF Northampton, Mass, is
moving into c. Z. Tylers farm house He
works for A. NJ. Mortified in the basket
department. a. n. Young of Beckett, also
works in the basket room at the steam mill,
and A. NJ. Shaw is cutting out plane
woods, all of them being new hands.
A letter from Mrs. }. A. Young of War.
renburg Mo, dated March %, says, MANY
gardens are made and preparations are
going on for planting the great corn crop
of 1894. Grass is green and fowls have
run out every day during the past winter
except one week, and could always find
earth and sunny spots. Turkeys average
eight or nine cents per pound dressed
apples, - cents per peck. Oranges take
their place with US
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-30
GUILFORD CENTRE.

Darwin f. Carpenter is housed by i'll
ness.
Mrs. Alice Y. Hicks is visiting friends
in town.
The members of the Guilford dramatic
club are requested to meet at the hall on
Tuesday evening, April 3.
There has been no time during the past
winter when so many were suffering from
colds and lung troubles as during the past
week.
The young people met with Luther Mil
Ter the 23d inst. Euchre was INDUCED in.
viii Higley won the royal prize, Minnie
Thayer the progressive, and Nellie Hud-
son thC BOBBY. Refreshments were served
and the evening was enjoyed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-30

place in the south part of the town, is fix
ing up the buildings, preparatory to living
there.
John +. Harris has sold out his meat
business to u. c. NJ. Fox and c. H.
Grousbeck, who have already taken pos
session.
The school directors have held their first
meeting, and chosen f. II. Putnam
chairman, NJ. A. Butterfield clerk, and +.
L. Wheeler superintendent.
DR.. Oscar Roberts of Pittsfield spent
several days in this vicinity last week, and
also his brother, L. L. Roberts of Brattle-
boro. 1t is whispered that the Roberts
brothers intend to buy the old James Rob
erts farm, the home of their grandfather,
and make a summer resort of it. 1t is
well located on the north end of Lsure
Beach, spoken OF so frequently in the last
few years