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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-10-30

display is certainly grand, and is count
ed as fine as was ever made in the
state Those having never visited an
exhibition of this kind, can have but a
faint idea of the perfection attained in
the poultry kingdom, both as to form
and beauty. The Regulator last even
ing brought up about two hundred
fowls, and more are to come tonight.
In addition to the entries published
yesterday, the following exhibits were
made today by Dalles people: Joles
Bros, wild geese and peacocks; J. H.
Riggs, Chinese or Mougolian pheasants; !;
Liebe, white Bantams; w. G. Barrell,
block breasted Red Garnes; E. M.
Smith, Buff Leghorns. Other entries
will be made this evening and tomorrow
morning.
Many of the coops contain specimens
of great value. A coop of Langshans
may be seen that are valued at $75. A
coop OF magnificent light BrahmaR, value
$50. The cock in this coop weighs four
teen pounds and has yet much to grow.
All the other classes are also represent
ed by specimens most perfect in form
and color. The crop of Chinese pheas-
ants attract great attention, as these are
the first that have been exhibited on
this side of the Cascades. The fancy
pigeon display is very large and unique.
The fantails are there in all colors, and
behave in most pleasing manner. The
carriers are grand birds and most at
tractiye.
The exhibit, as a whole, is indeed
fine, and no one should fail to see it.
A move is being made today towards
forming an athletic club. Prof. Lucien
| NJ. Chrlstol is in the city and has inter
viewed number of our young men on
the question. He has met with great
encouragement and has consented to
spend a month in The Dalles. He is
organizing a class of twenty members
and will give them thorough course in
boxing, fencing and various kinds OF
athletics. At the end of that time or
! sooner perhaps, it is probable a club will
! be formed and gymnasium fitted up.
Such an organization would be a splendid
thing for the young men of this city. 1t
would give them place to spend their
spare time profitably and pleasantly.
La Grande, Pendleton and other cities
have organizations of this kind and the
members derive great benefit from them.
We hope the athletic club proposition
will be taken hold of in hearty spirit
and pushed to'a early formation. The
! class will meet tomorrow afternoon.
Evening lessons will also be given.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-10-30

We respectfully invite all
those in need of cook or
heating stove or steel range
to call and examine our new
line and get our prices. We
have avery large assortment
to select from, we can give
you splendid bargains this
year, and will guarantee to
save you money, simply be-
cause we are satisfied with
small profits.
We are also prepared to do
plumbing, timing, Hot water
heating, furnace work, and
employ none but first class
workmen, pratical and exper-
fenced in this class of work.
All work guaranteed. Spec
ial inducements to cash buy
ers.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-10-30
Re1novaI Notice.

Fred D. Hill, real estate, fire insur-
ance and shorthand, begs to inform the
public that he has moved his office from
the Bettingen building, corner Court
and Second, to the Vogt building, over
Moody's bank, room II. oct3O 1w
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-10-30
Some Rare Poultry.

The poultry show, in the old Chroni-
Gle building, is now in full blast The
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-10-30
BRIEF MENTION.

Leaves From the Notebook of Chronicle
Reporters.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-10-30

Call at the Snlpes- Kinersly Drug Co
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26
Public Good the Supreme Law.

There are acres in many large cities
for which labor has to produce, for a
private individual, 81. 600, 600, or about
500 1000 per annum before it can eat or
drink. How can a living wage be paid
SO long as this oppression lasts? But
the objection arises, will you take
from these ground owners, even
by taxation, property for which
they have paid honestly earned
money? I answer, the public good is
the supreme law.-SaIus popn6 saprema
len est. Iquote Lord Chief Justice Col
eridge: History is full of examples in
which the principle has been unhes-
itatingly applied to whole classes in
the name of the public good. TO cor
porations it has been constantly ex-
tended, made up of individu-
ais who have had to submit to depriva-
ton of property and consequent loss
of position without a shadow of COM
pensation. All laws of property must
stand upon the foot of general advan-
tage. A country belongs to its inhab-
itants. In what proportion and by
what rules its inhabitants are to own
it must be settled by the law. and the
moment e fragment of the people set
up rights inherent in themselves, and
not founded on the public good, plain
absurditiss follow.
Z. T. SEWARD,
1schua, n. Y.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26

up in the mounsa MS. generally at the
top OF the pass, ce the porte" as they
call it there, within a few yards Ct the
boundary line between the two coun-
tries Thus It ID that the French
srnuggler Is nipped in the bud
as soon as he crosses into
Spanish territory, while the Span.
ish smuggler has six or eight
miles to go through French territory
before he sights an alien custom house.
He has a wilderness of Valleys forests
and paths open to him, and 40 it an.
noys him very much, when he has
worked I mule laden with Spanish
cigars over the pass, to meet a French
customs officer fooling around on the
high mountains, when he might much
better have been drinking black coffee
and cognac in the village down below.
The spaniards, therefore, express their
disapprobation by dropping the officer
down on the village q mile or 30
through the air, thus saving time and
trouble, for by the Spanish method he
reaches the village in a few seconds,
whereas 1t would have taken him
hours to go down the zigsag path.
After resting for awhile, and look
ing at the customs officers monument
with great content, ! clutcl1ed my
alpenstocl1 and proceeded to toll mp
the path toward Syain. 1t was q lone
some spot. On the right hand a wall
Of rock rose to a giddy height; on the
left al the deep precipice SO useful
in reducing the numerical strength OF
the evenue service; between the rock
and the chasm's edge was a path about
four feet wide.
Away up the path. coming toward
me, / saw a fantastically-dressed youth
with an alpenstock, wki~..-he every
now and then used as = Y ring-pole,
leapiug downward at 4 Treat rate.
When he saw me he aStf.. for q mo-
ment, and then came Oh re soberly.
trailing his alpenstock behind him.
As he approached I saw he was about
twelve or fourteen years Of age, and
by his costume / knew he was a Span
ish youth. He was evidently uneasy,
for, in the mountains as in the des-
ert, no man meets a friend. He
glanced furtively and su~spiciously at
me, and seemed ready to bolt should l
show signs of being hostile.
# was a mean thing to do, but /
thought I would brighten him a bit. I
couched my alpenstock as if it were a
lance or q bayonet, pointing the sharp
steel prod of it towards him. and with
a frown OH my brow advanced up the
path. He e. st shrank In by the wall of
rock, them moved cautiously to the
edge Of the precipice, the point of my
pole following him.
Hello, Sam" l said, "where do you
think you're going?"
Seeing he was trapped, a look OF the
most intense fear came into his face;
his jet black eyes grew large with ter
ror; the color left his cneeks, and his
lips were white and firmly closed into
a straight line.
I had become ashamed of myself,
and was just going to tell him it was
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26

to attempt to brighten a child.
The incident took place in the Pyre-
nees. Sooner or later every lover OF
mountains drifts into the Pyrenese.
As a rule, he is disappointed if he is
familiar with Switzerland or the Tyrol
He finds in that range no great masses
of snow, such as there are among the
Alps; no waterfalls worth looking at;
no lovely lakes aud very few good
roads. Nevertheless, the Pyrenees
have a beauty of their own that makes
them well worth visiting.
The French are the greatest road
builders in the world, and France has
the best roads in the world, but the
in the universe, always excepting the
Americans. So it ome that the
French realize that it is no use for
them to build a road up their side of
the Pyrenees If the Spaniards won't
build a road down the other side, and
therefore the chain between France
and Spain is crossed only by %footpaths
except at the Mediterranean end. ard
the Bay OF Biscay end. Along these
PithS khC1c ORC liz uOtCiS, anu d pG1"
son who wishes to enjoy the scenery
of the higher Pyrenees must carry his
food or his back, and be prepared to
camp out. When you think of the
magnificent roads that there are be-
tween Switzerland and Italy, and the
excellent hotels to le found every
where among the Alps. you will un-
derstand why a thousand people go to
Switzerland for every n who goes to
the Pyrenees. The country that wishes
to sell its scenery to the best advan-
tage must understand the hotel bust
ness and know how to make good
roads.
Still. every state of things has its
compensations, and if you want to get
far from the busy haunts of men and
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26
AT II HORSE SHOW.

He took her to the horse show, there to see the
That hunting fellows ride upon, and groolns
hitch up to drags.
lie pointed out the Jumpers, and he pointed out
the traps,
But she had eyes for little else than other
women's wraps.
Said he: Look at that seddle-horse-is he not
simply tlne:"
Said she: shes got an oversktrt that's just
the same as mine
Said he: just see that jumper-lookl Now
what think you OF THAR
said she: Il think it's pretty high"-referring
to some hat.
"A splendid team Quoth he, as two fine bays
went prancing by.
'.Sne's much too tall for him, [ Think the fair
one made reply.
For while he meant the horses. she supposed
he did allude
no massive Miss Fourhundred and young
Charlie Littlcdudc.
''Thero goes the fastest Of his class quoth be.
Just watch him pace
"Most anyone could tell he's fast by looking in
his face
Said she. her eyes firm fastened on young
Willie Vanderbrown.
The very l~iyeiiest lad you'll find in all Manhat-
tan town.
And SO it went all through the time that he
and she were there.
He gazed upon the horses; at the people she
did stare.
And as 1 watched them I opined-perhaps It's
but q whim-
The folks who go TO shows Hike this are more
like her than him
-Harper's Bazaar.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26

from the sound Of the English Ian
guage, go into. the center of the Pyr-
enees range. It is said that the Span
iar9s object 10 good roads across the
mountains because they would inter-
fere with the gentle and laudable art
of smuggling. This, of course, is d
vital and tangible reason for not build
ing roads. We must not imagine that
the Spaniards are an unprogressive,
uncivilized people. Far otherwise.
While / was tramping over into their
country / came upon a rude stone mon
nment six thousand feet above the sea
on the edge of a fearful cliff, and the
inscription on the stone was to the
effect that this memorial had been put
there because ait that spot six Spanish
smugglers had thrown q French Gus
toms officer over the precipice. No one
can say anything against the Spanish
people after q generous action like
that. It would have been more noble,
perhaps, ii one Spaniard had thrown
six customs officers over, still we must
not expect too much in this imperfect
world and should be thankful for
small favors.
Spanish smugglers hare an advan-
tage owe their French feIlow-crafts-
men. The Frenchman isa companion
able sort OF being, and Y when he
Is o customs officer he likes to drink
his absinthe with his fellows. Conse-
quently, the French custom houses are
down in the villages OF the foot Of the
r.1uR.nina. The Spanish custom
aaRsfs. os tAe ether hsRa, are right
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26

all right, when, with a suddenness
that found me totally uuprepared, he
swung up his %alpenstock with both
hands, and brought it down on my
head.
l thank my stars, of which l saw a
thousand at that moment, that he did
not knock me clean through into
China. AS it was, ] went down in my
tracks like a felled OK. He placed the
point of his alpenstock beside my
PROSTATE body, leaped over me like a
bird and ran down the pass as If the
devil were after him, which, indeed,
he was not, for I couldn't move for
some seconds. When I gradually got
up on my elbow l saw in a dazed way
that he was still rushing madly down.
taking marvelously flying leaps
through space. He was half a mile
below before he stopped and looked
around for the first time. Seeing me
sitting in the path feeling the raised
map Of the Pyrenees on the top of my
head. he stood there, looking up.
Finally he raised aloft his alpenstock
IN ms right hand q brandlShed 1T de-
family as an Arab does his spear.
Then he bolted again and was soon out
of sight.
All desire to visit his interesting
country left me, and / got slowly and
shakily on my feet again. My head
rang for q week as if / had taken an
overdose OF quinine.
AS I went lettering down the pass I
thought it vas a shame for a grown-up
man to frighten helpless, innocent
children, and I resolved never to do so
again. The gentle reproof given me
by that coniding boy, appealing as it
did directly to my reasoning APP
paratus, made me resolve to lead a bet
ter life in future. with less alleged
American humor in it.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26
He Isn't q Groom.

Having o married man for ones
sbest man" possesses the nameless adj
vantage of giving a good send-of to
the nuptials. One who has tried 1t
knows what to avoid as well as what
to do on that trying occasion Of get
ting married" and must prove a moral
support to the always unimportant
bridegroom. BY the way, what SLOW
emily manner Of speech is it to call that
individual the groom Good form,
not to mention . slight knowledge
with the Language, should preclude so
gross an error. q shortening the CON-
pound o U and thereby giving it an
entirely different Significance. It
would be absurd to say: .the bride
and stableman or coachman," and yet
groom according to modern ETY.
mology, al just about that, and
without the prefix is altogether vul-
gar. Bridegroom is . word as old as
the world. Stick To it all and do not
be SO economical OF space or time as
to drop the bride. when the chance
ome to use it-Boston Herald.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26
MAY
JUNE
DECEMBER
300 Reward, 500,

The reader of this paper will be pleased 70
learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure in
Catsrrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarril
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment, Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly On
the blood and mucous surfaces of tha
y sfs'e the 'd 1;sease %oes snd eigin 1a!e Il Ie 9 patisnt
strength by building up the constitution
and assisting naturein doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its cura.
tive powers, that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, O.
r4y- Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Halls Family Pills, Is cents.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26
How II Ia In Scotland.

I'll give an illustration Of the method
hv which the entire improvements OF
society are distracted every day from
those who produce them-the whole
people-and appropriated by indiv1d"
uals who toll not, neither do they
spin"
It appears src,n the Press hat the
school board of Cathcart have been
obliged to pay Mr.. Gordon IS. per yard
for a school site. Now, this is $4,000
for an acre. This money could be IN
vested at 3 per cent. or EGO per annurn.
Thus, an acre of land worth at o
So per annum is made a means OF ex-
torting from the wages OF ana
profits of capital, through all coming
time for the land owner and his des'
cendants, ESQ per annun. 1t is clear
that this e2, 600 does not come out OF
the acre Of land. 1t is simply black
mail levied upon society. s.oo, ooo,0o
is paid out of the industry of che United
Kingdom. to a number of men VINO
will not allow its 40, 0oo, 900 of ptppte
to put a spade in the ground, fifg
shuttle through g loom, hammer an
anvil, or build house till the crush pg
imposition is paid. Did we, by discSv-
cry, invention, or skill. increase Oar
output without increasing our cost of
production " commerce, to-morro"
capital would, for a time, make extra
profit, and wages would rise owing to
the demand for labor by capital, but
by an economic law, as certain as gray
~itation, the owners Of ground values
would slowly or quickly absorb every
dollar of the improved profit, and leave
capital fighting with labor as no" at
or q little above the starvation line.
We're ground rents, and the increase
that the new inventions will give to
ground values m~unicipalized then the
living wage could be paid and tue
hours of labor shortened. Then reform
schemes would be blessings to all in
stead of to the few. Then the city
would be able to cherish It's industrial
classes. No monopolists could hold
back building ground till its price
rose above that which would permit
houses being built upon it to suit the
wages of unskilled labor. Then as the
rich grew richer by honest trade mot
land speculationl, the poor would not
grow any poorer. for honest trade
and the wages of labor and profits Of
capital would no longer be withdrawn
from legitimate and productive indus
try to support an economically useless
class. JOHN FERGUSON.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26
ATayahlA Agzax

The San Francisco Examiner asserts
a BACKS It's assertion up with figures
that the land grants to the Southern
Pacific railroad would make a belt
around the earth q mile and a quarter
wide. II that is SO it would be an in
teresting calculation 70 figure out what
proportion OF the surface Of the earth
has been granted to ell the railroads.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26
REFORM STUDIES
EDITED By BOLTON HALL
An Open Column.

II any one has an impression that
communication 8 to these Studies"
will not be published unlers they echo
the editors ideas, he is mistaken.
Articles on any side OF the question
will always be welcome, SO they are
decent. we'll written. within reasor-
able limits and to the point, except
that we do not discuss the tariff.
Land owners especially should be
interested, as the principle benefit Of
any improvement or social advance
goes to them in the increase OF value
given to land. Address this office, CT
Z. y. Box So, Buffalo. n. Y.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26
A GENTLE HINT.
BY LUKE SHARP.

AM convinced
that it is wrong
to frig h t C n
c b n. We
are apt to make
light of their
fears, forgetting
t b a t, although
the C q Il S e is
known to us TO
be trivial, til.
terror of a child
may be as real
and as agoniz-
ing as the justi-
fable terror of a
man. I thought
deeply upon this
subject one day
last s II m m e r,
and I formed a
resolution never
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26

Mulhall estimates that the anaua,
taxes Of the world aggregate the enor
mor sum Of Gs7o, ooU, ooo.
This refers TO estsel taxes only, no!
the aesssa which they esyss,-En,
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26
The Two Sides.

There are two sides to every ques-
ton. This is an adage that has a truth
in it much deeper than is generally
supposed. II is not merely that there
may be some rational doubt about
every question; it implies a truth of
much wider scope and reach. There
are two sides to every question, in the
n that you can spproach every
question from at least two apparently
opposite points OF view, and that when
you arrive at the true solution the al
swer will be the same, no matter from
which side you approach it. There are
two sides Y to Il plank; and if Il of
you look on one side and the other on
the other side, and you do not agree as
IL the dimensions Of the plank, one of
you is certainly wrong. There are two
sides to every room, and if M man ap-
proaches from n door and another
from the opposite door, and the two do
notmeet, it is because they have not got
into the same room. II the description
of a room given by a man who under
takes to describe it viewed from 4
door is utterly inconsistent with the
description given by another man who
processes to have seen the same room
from the opposite door, yon may be
sure one of them is wrong-perhaps
both.
Now, Henry George has approached
the great problem as to the remedy
for the growing evils alike of riches
and of poverty in our midst from the
point Of view of land and it's rent. Be-
ginning with a discussion of land own
ership and OF the right to rent of the
bare land, he has arrived at certain
conclusions with regard to taxation.
II those conclusions are correct, pre-
cisely the same conclusions can be
reached by taking up the question
from the opposite point of view; and,
without discussing the right of pri-
vate property in land, it will he pos
sible to come to the same results and
to prove them just as satisfactorily, by
approaching them solely from the side
of taxation. T. G. s.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26

-Bores sbculdobe lenient enough to
bear in mind this truth, that 1t is with
the fro Of conversation as with any
other fire. little sticks ktud,e 10, gysat
stleka put u pnt.-AnoR
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26
FOR SALE.

WILL sell for cash or on easy terms the fol.
l. lowing described property, viz:
!. "A plantation in Bellevue containing about
sixty-six arpents, all thoroughly fenced and
drained, with tenant house and outbuildjnes,
known as the Narcisse Richard place.
IA plantation situated on the Courtableau,
containing four hundred and forty-two and
IL. 100 arpeuts, about sixty arpents under pieux
and wire fence and in cultivation, with two good
tenant houses and outbuildings. The rear of
this tract consists Of cypress swamp.
8. Several tracts Of wood land on the bayou
Teche, situated between Coulon's bridge and
Barry's Landing.
The first and second tracts are rented advan-
tageously for the year 1891, and II sold ! will
transfer rent notes to purchasers.
W. {. PERRAULT.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26

II THOUGHT you told ne that Miss
Brown had spenta great deal Of money on
her voice." ''Well, so / did" But she
can't sing ''Nell, | didn't say that she
could, did Io-Truth.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26
IsIand Route Playine Cards.

Great Rock Island Route Playing Cards.
If you send Is cents in stamps or coin to
JoHN SEBASTIAN, Gent Pass. Agent, G.. +.
I. & P. Ky, Chicago, you will receive post
paid the slickest pack Of playing cards
you ever handled. Beautiful steel engraved
Whist Rules accompany them free.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26

TEACHER "Now. Charley, tell us whatyou
know about Crssus.' Carbohydrates
wear 'em III their pants."-Harlem Life.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26
fails in taxing personal estate Is pcss'

fails in taxing personal estate IL PEI
nicious- EoHSaI HOOD
Livingston, n. I.
III the writer Of tho above is really q
single taxer and takes this method or
stating the single tax arguments ana
showing up the weakness OF the usual
answers to them. the editor would say
to him that for himself he disapproves
of such methods and doubts If real
good can be accomplished by them)'
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26
E. BIO. IFI

COMMISSIONER U. ,. IifcuII (ouft Tor the West.
ern District of Louisiana.
Commissioner l.. S. Court OF Claims throughout
the United States.
Notary Public in and for the Parish OF st. Ian
dry. Office with Hon. John N. Ogden.
Particular attention given to Land Cases and
to Final Proofs. Collections in the Parishes Of
Ut. Landry and Acadia promptly attended to.
Pensions secured Patents, Caveats, Trade
Marks. ETC., procured without delay.