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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-05-29
COUNTY AND vlolnlrx No1ss.

The pension of Benz f. Stokes of
Starksboro has been increased.
The residents of Monkton who were
poisoned last week by eating pork that
was "otf' from some cause have all re-
covered.
A young mems republican club has
been organized in Lincoln with the fol-
lowing officers President, Jasper Page
vice-president, DR.. Dodge; secretary, l..
A. Jackman; treasurer, c. A. Kingsley.
The 10th convention of the Woman's
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-05-29
z TRAY,
S?RAYEl Or STOLEN!

Thursday, May 81, from a pasture near the
residence OF the Undersigned II small dark
pay morse weighing about $50 lbs. small star
IN forehead. Any person giving information
where this horse can be found will be liberal.
~ rewarded, and, II stolen, S25 will be paid
the thief. Va
The und resigned has also two tenement
houses in salisbury to rent, and one good
mousse with barns near Lake Dunmore and
one cottage at Cold Spring, Lake Dnnmore
cottage furnished with many articles.
COLUMBUS SMITH.
West Salisbury, May 26, 1896.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-05-29
A GARD OF THANKS.

We desire to publicly express our SINGER est
gratitude to those neighbors and friends who
so kindly and abundantly assisted us during
the illness and after the death OF our beloved
husband and father.
MRS. CHAs BEATTY AND FAMILY.
Middlebury, VT, May 2s, 1896.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-05-29
We Pay Freight

70 those who will mention where thev
saw this advertisement; so you can buy
OF us TO better advantage than you can
of your local dealer. 1t is an easy mat
ter to save your expenses to and from
Burlington several times by purchasing
one OF these sets. or anything you may
want in the furniture line.
We make specially of lodge, school
ana church contracts, and respectfully
solicit call or correspondence in regard
to this work.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-02-22

When my little girl was one month Old, she
had scab form on her face. 1t kept spread
ing until she completely covered from
head to foot. Then she had bOils. She had
forty on her head at one time, and more on her
body. When six months Old She did not weigh
seven pounds, pound and q half less than at
BIRTH Then her skin started to dry up and
got so bad she could not shut her eyes to sleep,
but lay with them half open. About this
time, 1 stared using CUTICURA REMEDIES,
and an one month she HtoieieIY 5ETcoi.
The doctor and drug bills were over &7;4.-
dred dollars, the CUTIcURA bill was Lot moro
than flee dollars My chill is now s. rong,
healthy, and large as any child of her age (sea
photo), and it is all owing to CUTICuEA.
Yours with n Mothers Blessing,
Mrs. GEO. II. TUCKER. .FTs.,
c52 walker ST., Ei-:wI;-;-oc, Is
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-02-22
THE CoMMTTTEE'S REPORT.

The benefits that will be derived from
the Commercial Club were clearly dem
onstrated last evening by the meeting
which was held to consider the report of
the special committee appointed to ex-
anime the situation at the locks. The
citizens of The Dalles were given an op-
portunity to meet together and discuss a
matter of vital Importance to the city
and the country for which it is the en-
trepot. The work of the committee was
thoroughly done, and every one who has
listened to their conclusions has clear
idea of the situation at the Cascades.
We are inclined to favor the resolution
adopted last evening as being one of
the means by which the people of East
ern Oregon will be brought to realiza-
tion of the great need for quick action
towards securing the appropriation nee
essary to place the locks beyond the
danger limit. 1t is but little over
month till an attempt will be made to
operate the locks, and such action
should now be taken that if the attempt
fails no time will be lost in applying the
remedy. 1t is idle now to speculate
over the mistakes that have been made.
The construction of the locks has been
replete with blunders-some, it will be
declared, Intentional; others through
ignorance. It seems more than proba-
bic that the neglect of the engineers to
provide for walls of masonry between
the gates will prove an egregrious mis-
take, but the thing to be done is not to
discuss past shortcomings so much as to
provide how they may be made whole.
No pressure too strong can be brought
upon our delegation to spur them to
ceaseless work till the needed appropri-
alton shall be secured. The action of
our Commercial Club should be en-
dorsed and similar moves made by like
organizations in the cities along the
river. The agitation must begin at
once and continue earnestly if it will
bear fruit.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-02-22

ings, sounds the knell of pugilism as an
institution to be tolerated by the Ameri-
can public, After being bounded from
place to place by the officers of the law,
the prize6ghters were hurried to an OBJ
scure spot, and in less than two minutes
one of the bruisers bit the dust. No
greater aid to the abolition of slugging
matches could come than the speedy
way in which Fitzsimmons put an end
to his opponent. AS a conclusion to
months of boastful wranglIng it was a
most dismal one, and whoever attempts
to arrange another prize fight will have
difficulty in eliciting enthusiasm, even
among the sports to whom such things
are food. The decline of pugilism will
be utter than the passing of horse
racins and its attendant evils.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-02-22
WANTED MAN.

At dinner recently given him in
London by Henry NJ. Stanley, NJ. Dau-
det remarked: "What we lack is the
directing genius; man of our own race
having your wonderful qualities of initi-
ative, firm shoulders, ready to stand the
weight of great responsibilities. For we
have good blood, valiant blood, but the
man we have not got" The Paris cor
respondent of the London Times de-
clares that ever since France conclu-
sively shook off one master she has been
in search of another. This is what NJ.
Daudet calls "a man." France has had
one only at rare intervals. She has had,
indeed many men, but the man dreamed
of by the national instinct and yearned
for by NJ. Daudet was Charlemagne,
Henry ", R;chelieu, Napoleon. Some
enough, would have been in the list.
Neither Louis XI, nor Francis I, nor
even Louis XIV, though these were
great men, was the guiding genius, the
man of initiative and responsibility, the
deliverer. Now, the best thing for
France and for her steady progress
would be deliverer from the passion of
clamoring for deliverer.
There is a lesson in the above quota
tions for Oregonians. We do not cry
''Wanted-a Man" on general princi
pies as we have cried, certain cliques
and posses of us, surely, ''Let us send
East after a man." disregarding thus
wholly the lesson of experience, dearly
learned and paid for in some well-known
cases, the old-t1me mental habit ori-
ginating in the days when we were
feeble folk and few, of considering that
every good thing comes from the rising
sun country. For all good things they
send MS, let US be deYoutly thankful, but
before sending East for man" let US
carefully inspect what we have on the
ground ready to hand. This will serve
us well in many directions, the obvious
ness of which will not need to be point
ed out to some who are just now suffer-
ing from ill-considered action in this re-
spect. Within the memory of some of the
youngest of US this same mental habit
prevailed in what we now call the East.
Then Boston was nowhere, and the
-'man" wanted must hail from across
the Atlantic. Sometimes great good
came in this way, as the loving memory
In which Princeton students cherish the
name of DIR. McCosh will attest. The
many, many failures are not reported.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-02-22
THE CHURCHES.

Rev. o. D. Taylor, pastor of the First
Baptist church, will preach tomorrow
morning at IL o'clock. Subject-"God
Does Not Require Imposslbilities.' y
Sunday school follows the morning SER
vice. Lesson, Luke, 7:2-17. No even
ing service.
NJ. E. church-Love feast at 10 o'clock
a. M: preaching at II o'clock by Rev.
R. c. Motor, presiding elder, followed
by the Lords supper. Sabbath school
at II 80. Young peoples prayer meet
ing at $50; Epworth League at 80.
Preaching at 7:3O in the evening by
ReY. R. G. Motor.
The. Congregational church, corner of
Court and Fifth streets-Sunday SER
vices as usual. At IL a. m. and at z 80
p. m. worship, and sermon by the pas
tor, w. G. Curtis. Sunday school imme-
diately after the morning service.
Meeting of the Young Peoples Society
of Christian Endeavor at $50 p. m.
Topic-What faith can do for US. Heb.
II lilo, 12:12. All persons not wor-
shipping elsewhere are cordially invited.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-02-22
Fitzs1mmons Wins.

I.ANGTRY, Feb. 21.-The following is
the result of the Fitzsimmons- -Maher
prize fight, by rounds:
Fitz led and reached Maher's body
Maher returned on the neck; Bob feint-
ed and led his left direct into Maher's
wind, then followed with a vicious right
hand swing on the jaw. It was all over
and George Siler handed Fitz the purse
containing $4,000. The kinetoscope
photographed the mill.
Later The authorities are on the
track of principals and witnesses, and
declare all shall suffer alike. There is a
strong possibility of trouble before night.
The betting was all in favor of Fitzsim-
mons at odds of two to one.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-02-22
Real Estate Transfers.

Daniel F Dewolf and wife and Lille
NJ DeWolf to Eliz L DeWolf, lot E,
Hood River; $1S1.75.
VIM E Cempbell and Sarah NJ Camp
bell to Geo w Fligg, W hf NV or sec Is.
tip S, IS e; $500.
R and B McNeaI to R A Power 20
acres in sec Z, tp 2 n, r IL e; $500.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-02-22

The fiasco yesterday between the
brawling bruisers. who too long haye
sickened the public with their mouth
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-08

Major Mckinley, but to pause when it
came to cast their votes for the Republic
can nominees on the municipal ticket.
A. A. Collins, president of the Alameda
league. followed in the same lines and said
that to such Republicans as Lincoln,
Grant, Sumner, Garrison and Phillips the
colored race owed much, and it was their
duty to vote for such men. The Rev. H.
J. Calls expressed his unbounded admlra-
tion for Major Mckinley and dwelt at con-
siderable length upon the splendid record
made by him in Congress and as Governor
of Ohio.
He urged all to register without delav
and to stand shoulder to shoulder for their
rights.
President Morton, at the request of Rev.
Mr.. Calls, offered a resolution the purport
OF which was that memorial service be
held on next Sunday afternoon in the A.
M. Zicn Church or Stockton street,
between Sacramento and Clay, in mem.
ory of the late Harriet Beecher Stowe,
and that a committee of six be appointed.
three from this City and a like number
from Oakland TO make final arrangements
for the same.
The committee as appointed is formed
of from San Francisco, Rev. II. ]. Calls,
Rev. E. Cottman and Rev. w. E. Hender-
son; from Oakland, Rev. A. A. Collins, Rev.
John A Allen and j. E. Edwards
Inc lOllOWlnS ueIeSaJeS were elected to
attend the congress to be held in Los An
geIes on August IL:
W. E. Henderson, George williams. C. Fl.
Tinsley, A. Stranther, T. Thomas, E. Magee.
Fred Caster. J. c. Wilson, Nat Mitchell. -. r
Hubbard G. Nicholas, Squire JONES' c. Epps.
C. II. Foreman, Rev. H. |. Calls, Rev E. Cott.
man, E. J. Johnson, A Lord, j. C. Wilson I q
Wilson, G. E. Francis, J. Q. Bastop, J. o. Looms.
d. w. Ruggles, J. ii. Fisher, Wilson
Barnes, ]. L. Clayton, A. L. Coleman.
! Robert Goold, George Green, G. Noble,
]. E. Johnson, Iohn Baltimore, R. H. Page
Antoine Looney, w. g. Maddox, B. H. Harris
A. Cant, J. II. Coles, R p Keeley, D. w.
Rugales, James Sexton, Benjamin Beckett John
Sneyden, Harry Mills. James Stand, W. A.
Haynes, P. Lundy, Charles Lewis, William
Gleary Jordan Bowers, Samuel Young, w. W.
Lewis, g. +. Lewis, w. H. Carter, G. W. Mitchell
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-08
AN OUTcAST
FOR HIS FAITH.
A. M. Hadi Began Wander
ing When but Fifteen
Years of Age.
rs NOW JUST EIGHTEEN.
The Son of a Persian Philosopher
Who Believed in Free
Will.
was DISGUISED AS AN ARAB.
He Intends to Remain in America for
Some Years and Study
Medicine.
WAS DISGUISED AS AN ARAB.

Considerable interest is being expressed
in local church circles in A. NJ. Hadi, a
young Persian who has just arrived here
from the Orient. His history Is a peculiar
one, and savors good deal of the romantic
stories of his native land.
When Hadi was only 15 he left home,
country and parents to become a wanderer
on the face of the earth. Alone and with
very little knowledge of the world he yis-
tied towns and localities where his coun-
trymen were looked upon with distrust,
and where Americans and Europeans are
careful about venturing. He penetrated
into the interior of Arabia, wearing the
Arab dress, and though his tongue might
have betrayed him and he had money on
his person, no harm befell him. In Oman,
where the people are jealous of Persian
and other spies, he stayed for some time,
passing himself off as an Arab and no sus-
picion attached to him, because he was
considered to be only boy.
Hadi has brought letters of introduction
to well-known residents of San Francisco,
and they say that he left Persia because
he had become Christian, and his family,
which is Mohammedan, was threatened
with persecution unless he went back to
his old faith.
In person he is slight and boyish-Iook-
ing, with aquiline features and intelligent
dark eyes. He speaks good English, and
his manners are refined and cosmopolitan.
Eyes, my family felt very deeply what
they considered the disgrace of my chang
ing my religion" he said when questioned
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-08

of their noise or obscene language or any
other circumstance, they fall into battle
with the water, drenching each other by
the use of the tin cups.
These officers in charge cannot also be
charged with the fact that boys, arrested
for no greater offense than violating the
o'clock ordinance, are thrust into the
same cells crowded with disreputables of
the most pronounced character.
Whether it is the fault of those in
charge or of the plumber, some space
should be given in the reports the Chief
has called for concerning the imperfect
drainage of the underground prison.
Quite frequently the stream of water that
Is intended TO be kept flowing through the
cesspooIs becomes clogged and the result
drives the officers out of the place. The
prisoners, however have to stand it.
The women's cell is on the same front
with the others. and all comers have an
unobstructed view of the inmates When
Chinatown's gambling joints are raided
the corridor in front of these cells is
crowded with thirty or forty Cinnamon,
who crowd about the bars of the women's
cells while themselves waiting to be
booked, and comment as they choose.
OpCdhlHS Vi Lnc OdIk cell, IL Is utterly
dark. There is no way of looking in to
see how the prisoner fares. Once the door
is closed upon him, or her, it is liable to
remain SO for hours. A French woman.
fighting drunk, was put in the cell some
nights since, and when she was taken out
it was found that she had beaten her
hands against the brick walls until two
of her fnger-nails were completely torn
out.
These things should be reported upon
and corrected. They form an argument.
certainly, in behalf of the new criminal
building and jail, but much of all this
could be corrected now, without waiting
for new building.
Lieutenant Esola, il charge of the sta
ton. made report to Chief Crowley last
evening, in which he denied specifically all
the allegations made in The CALL of yes
terday.
1t denies that any prisoners were ever
beaten or that women are mistreated; it
declares that it is impossible for water to
lie on the floor of the cells as they drain
naturally, and also states that the wooden
flooring is always placed in the cells.
All of which goes for so much. It will
be interesting to learn what the others will
report. What has been stated in The
CALL is capable OF proof by many wit
nesses
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-08
MAX, The MAIL CARRIER
]. A. Herbert's Suit Against Him
TOR Wages Threatens a
Strike.
The Head of the Wagon Branch Of
the Service Trusted His
Foreman.

An internecine upheaval is imminent in
Max Peppers branch of the mail service.
Mr.. Pepper has the contract for carting
the mails from the main Office to various
points of delivery, steamer landings, ETC.,
and in the discharge of said contracts he
has occasion to employ several men.
The pending trouble in this branch of
the service was caused by the suit lately
brought by J. A. Herbert, one of the
drivers, against Max Pepper. to recover
s106 claimed to be owing him as unpaid
salary.
Herbert's story, as partly set forth in
the complaint, is to the effect that the
foreman, P Riley, wanted him to accept
$50 in full for his TWO months salary. The
balance due, according to the complaint,
is $106. But the readable part of the story
is told outside of the complaint and on ac-
count thereof some trouble is brewing.
Mr.. Herbert says that when Riley, the
foreman asked him to take the $50, the
latter told him he had the money the
night before and "blew it in" and that if
he (Herbert) would take the $50 offer ed
and sign the payroll it would be all right.
Herbert refused the money and would
not sign the payroll. Trouble ensued.
Mr.. Pepper, according to Mr.. Mckee, at
torney for Herbert, would not believe it
such an act, and threatened all sorts of
things. He said it was the first time in all
his long business life that he had been
sued, and he would surely give somebody
blowing-up.
But that is not the worst of it. Mr.. Her
bert has many friends among his former
fellow employees, and when he refused to
sign the payroll, because, as was asserted,
Foreman Riley had 'blown in" large
portion of his wages those friends sympa-
thized with him, and it was more than
limited that if Herbert is not reinstated
there NAV be small strike in that branch
of the mail service.
Attorney Mckee said yesterday: "Pop-
per SAYS he will do US up in the news
apers; that ne will have the reporters
write us up and otherwise exert his in
huence against my client and his rights.
We do not want to make a newspaper
fight, but if the truth must be told nothing
can keep it back. Ny client will swear
that Riley told him he had the money to
pay off the night before and that ne could
pay him but $50 because he (RIley) had
blown himself in the night before. We
are not accountable for what may follow.''
Riley denies the statement Of Herbert
in toto. 1t is likely more will follow.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-08
Cars Do Not ston.

Residents of Bernal Heights living in the
neighborhood OF Powell avenue, are indignant
at the refusal of the railway company 10 have
the Mission-street cars stop at Powell avenue.
The cars stop at Fair avenue and Precita ave-
nue., which are each about 300 feet on
even upon signal at the latter crossing The
grade is almost level and the cars could stop
at Powell avenue just as well as at Fair or
Precita avenues, and furthermore, the number
OF people who use Powell avenue 70 get TO
their homes is much greater than those
who get of at Precita avenue. Every Sunday.
residents of the neighborhood affirm doze1s
OF people stand at the corner signaling vainlv
to the passing car.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-08

on the subject. "My father was what they
call in Persia wise man. something like
your philosophers, and he believed in
every one thinking for himself
Hadi smiled when asked what the wise
men of Persia dedicated themselves to
teaching. ''My father" he said. ais a
silk manufacturer at Yezd, in Northern
Persia. His father, and grandfat her, and
their fathers for many generations back
have made silk in the same town. Every
moment of time that my father could
spare from his office, he studied the 1000
books of the old time, the wisdom of the
Zoroastians and of the Egyptians, and
then he began to write books himself. He
is the author of several works on phil
osophy.
my mother was much more indepen-
dent than most Persian ladies. She
thought for herself and acted for herself.
1t was her wish to make me. too, philoso-
pher, and when was 13 she took me to
Teheran to the Royal College,
1t was there that young Hadi first be-
came acquainted with Americans, and be-
fore six months were over he transferred
himself from the Shah's College to the
American Presbyterian School, q change
at which his mother, poor guileless lady,
reioiced because she thought he would
learn languages better. She found after
ward, to her dismay, that he had learned
Christianity.
In Persia this meant disgrace to the
whole family, but here the fathers phil
osophy came in. He was an old man of
nearly 70 and had lost all bis children
years before the child of his old age was
born, but he said, '.Let the boy think for
himself"
Hadi pleaded to go abroad, to put an
end to the troubles, and at last his father
appeared, holding letters of credit on off
ferent banks, which would enable him to
travel very modestly. 1t was in this way
that. Hadi says, ae started from home,
and struck out for Bagdad.
For nearly year he wandered about
Syria and Arabia, travelling with caravans
and living in caravansaries when in the
cities. During that time he was never
once molested, and he says that he be-
ileves being only child was his great
safeguard. as no one suspected him of hav-
ing much money, and he was too young to
be spy. During the two years that have
passed since he shipped for Bombay at
Muscat he has travelled all over India
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-08

something of the brutality and indiffer-
ence as to the condition and comfort of
the prisoners, lack of discrimination be-
tween them and general laxity of disci-
pline prevailing there, directed Captain
Whitman to get report from all the
officers in charge Of the station.
There are five officers at the station,
Lieutenant Fred Esola and Corporal A Ayers
in charge. and Corporal Burke and Patrol.
men White and Bowlen station and book
ing officers.
These officers Chief Crowley is about
ready to swear by so far as their efficiency
as officers and the humane character OF
the men are concerned.
The responsibility of these officers for
the conditions described is rather in allow
ing them than in perpetrating them.
None of these officers directly infiict the
brutality upon the prisoners that has
been described. They do not smack a
drunken mans face OF twist his ca RS to
rouse him from his stupor sufficiently to
enable him to give his name, They do
not throw water into the dark cell and
then drop and lock a stupid drunk" or a
fighting ''drunk' in it's blackness or its
wetness without even the board flooring
laid down as protection against rheu-
matism. They do not drag men and
women prisoners down the stairs by the
shoulders, their legs and feet rafting
down the steps. They do not beat obstrep-
erous prisoners into unconsciousness, they
do not tear the clothes off women-but all
these things are done there while they are
on duty.
The duties of Lieutenant Esola and Cor
poral Ayers keep them to the upper office.