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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-15
QUITE MISTAKEN.

Characters: Capt. Vivian. Evelyn Winter,
and Algernon Drummond.
Scene York Station. Scotch express
Just starting. Guard Opening door of
carriage, in which Miss Winter is seated
alone)-Now then, sir, get in here, please,
can't keep the express waiting. Capt.
Vivian jumps in, in a great hurry. Train
moves off, he starts and looks doubtfully at
his companion
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-15

ISIS WINTER (plis-
chievously was
wondering h O "
long it would be
before you became
aware of my exist
ence.
c a p t. Vivian
I'm Il c h beWil-
dered)- l beg
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-15

your pardon, I'm sure. Awfully sorry.
(Aside) Great Scott! l know her face
as well as possible, and yet | can't for
the life of me put name to her.
Miss Winter pleasantly - hate
travelling alone; I'm so glad you got n.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-08-14

ried. 1t is, however, certain that rail-
roads owing large amounts of gold debt
would, with premium on gold, be un-
able to meet their interest obligations,
temporarily, at any rate, and be forced
to pay some of their debts IN currency
or become bankrupt. The fear of such
a contingency renders it extremely diff
cult to sell any bat the highest class of
American railway bonds at the present
time. Still it is hoped the Eastern elec-
tors appreciate the danger ahead, and
will support the candidate pledged to
maintain the gold standard, otherwise
we are likely to witness crisis of un-
equaled severity on the stock exchange,
Americans opened weak, owing to
strong dieapproval of the speech
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-08-14
Drowned in Coos RI, er.
tion.''

Hal Bonebrake, boy about IA years
old, drowned in Coos river, near Marsh
field, last Sunday. The boy was enjoy
ing himself with the others in the water,
when suddenly he commenced crying
frantically for help, and seemed to be
utterly powerless to make an effort to
keep afioat, leading many to believe that
he was seized with fit. His compan-
ions went to his assistance, but were
unable to rescue him, and he sank al
most Immediately, never coming to the
surface after he once disappeared. A.
Smith, whose residence is close to the
bathing place heard the cries for help
and lost no time in getting there and
plunging into the water; but though he
dived until exhausted, he could find no
trace of the missing boy. The searchers
were finally rewarded by finding the
body, close to where the unfortunate
boy disappeared, in about ten feet of
water. The boy was the only son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Bonebrake of Coos river.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-08-14
reduction in railroad Fares.

AS there will be numerous requests
for reduced rates on account of political
meetings during the coming contest, it
has been decided tina, In order to treat
all parties alike, one fare rate will be
made by the Q. R. & n. Co. tor various
meetings of this character.
This of course is intended only for oc-
casions where there is sufficient number
to justify reduction in rates. This is
done so that there viii be no partiality
in favor of any one party.
E. E. LYTLE, Agent.
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NOTICE.
To ALL WHOM /

To ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
By order OF the Common Council of
Dalles City, made on the Sd day of Au-
gust, 1896, and entered of record in the
records of Dalles City on the 4th day of
August, 1896, notice is hereby given that
the sidewalks on the following streets
have been declared dangerous by said
council on said Sd day of August, and
the said Common Council will proceed
to make the Improvements as herein
after stated, on said streets, or parts of
streets, so declared dangerous, after
fourteen days from the first publication
of this notice, to-wit, August Z, 1896; I;
and the cost of such improvements of all
such sidewalks, and of each of them,
will be charged and levied upon the
property adjacent thereto and directly
benefited thereby, as by charter pro-
vided.
The sidewalks declared dangerous and
about to be built are as follows, to-wit |:
L. To build a sidewalk on the west
side of Court street from Second street
to the alley, along lot in block 4.
2. To build a sidewalk on the south
side of Second street, between Court and
Union streets, along lot in block 6. .
3. To build a sidewalk on the north
side of Second street from Union street
east 72 feet, along lot in block 4, and on
Union street from Second street to the
alley, along lot s, IN block A.
4. To build a sidewalk on the north
side of Fourth, along the property now
occupied by W. E. Garretson.
5. To build a sidewalk on the north
side of Fourth street, along lot in
block 2.
6. To build sidewalk on the north
side of Third street, along lot in block
5, and on the west side of Washington
street, along lot in block 5, from Third
street to alley.
Z. To build sidewalk on the north
side of Alvord street along lots and 4,
in block 2, between Laughlin and Fed
eral streets.
s. To build sidewalk on the east
side of Washington street, along lot u
in block A, and on the north side of Full
ton street, along lots 9, 10, II and u, in
block A.
9. To build sidewalk on the north
side of Second street, between Washing
ton and Court streets, along lot 9, in
block 8.
ALI of said sidewalks will be built and
constructed in accordance with the pro-
visions of the charter and ordinances oil
Dalles City.
Dated this 7th day of August, 1886.
GILBERT W. PHELPS,
Recorder of Dalles City.
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DEATH IN THE FLOOD
Pittsburg and Vicinity Wis
tied by Cloudbursts.
HEAVY LIFE AND PROPERTY LOSS
Six Persons Drowned at the Village
of Dehaven--AlI Rivers Greatly
Swollen.

PIrTsBURG, Aug. ia great rain
storm burst over this city and vicinity
this morning at S O'Clock, deluging a ter
ritory several miles in extent, swelling
the streams into torrents, sweeping
away bridges and buildings and sending
score of human beings into eternity.
The storm came from the southwest.
Great banks of dark, angry clouds how
cred over Pittsburg and the surrounding
country. turning dawn into darkness
and striking terror to the heart. Sud-
denly the clouds burst asunder and the
rain fell in sheets. The heavy rain
lasted for fully three hours.
The storm is attributed to the APP
proach of cool waye from the north
west.
At Dehaven, a small town near the
Wildwood oil well, six people are re-
ported drowned.
Everything is washed out between
Sharpsburg and Dehaven. Dehaven has
several hundred Inhabitants, and is
situated about six miles north of Alle-
gheny, on the old Butler plank road.
Pine creek, which runs through the
town, is a raging torrent. Houses, oil
tanks and barns lodged against the
Pittsburg & Western railroad bridge at
Etna, where at IL O'Clock there was
eight feet of water on the main street.
Residents are seeking safety on the
billsides. The lowlands at Sharpsburg
are under water, and the food is spread
ing rapidly.
Reports from Capin Greek valley indi-
cate that the loss of life from the cloud
burst will be heavy. At l2:45 p. M,
thirty lives were reported lost. The
whole Pine Greek valley, eight miles in
length, is devastated. At Dehaven, an
entire family named Appleton was
drowned. Among the others lost are
Mr.. Thomas Byrnes, Mrs. Thompson.
At Etna the water rose so rapidly that
Ihe employees at Spang, Chatfield &
Company's iron works were compelled
to swim for their lives. The foundry of
Walter Watkins was also flooded and
the workmen narrowly escaped.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-08-14
rhey Saw a Large Meteor.

CHICAGO, Aug. BE. Simmons, wife
and two daughters were sitting in the
yard at their home on Armitage avenue,
at 10 o'clock last night, when they saw
a meteor descending and aiming direct
ly toward them. Terror overpowered
them, bound them to their seats and
prevented their fleeing. But fortunate
ly while the mass of molten metal was
100 feet from them it burst, and the
fragments scattered with report like a
cannon, the kissing sound, which had
been growing in intensity eliminating
in a last dying gasp.
cit was certainly a providential es-
CAPE" said Simmons, as he told of the
matter. "The meteor came directly
down from the skies toward myself and
family. 1t was a wonderfully brilliant
sight,
No fragments of the heavenly visitor
could be found.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-08-14
HIRED BY SILVER MrNEowNEEs.
The Charge That Bryan Is in the Pay
of the Silver nIilliOnaires.

The Charge That Bryan Is in the Pay
of the silver nIiilionaires.
OF Bryan, the Chicago Chronicle, the
great Democratic newspaper OF Illinois
and the West, in its issue of July IL.
said:
''There was time when the owners
of the big bonanzas of the Far West were
glad to occupy purchased seats in the
United States senate. Sharon, Stanford,
Fair, Jones, Stewart and others gratified
their fancy in this manner until the
novelty wore off, and then they depu-
tized attorneys and other employees to
take their places and vote for protective
tariffs and free silver. OF late years.
owing to the encouragement they have
received from the Republican party,
which always does something for silver.
when it passes tariff bill, the proprie
tors of the big bonanzas have found it
profitable to keep a large number of
orators, lecturers and other epokesmen
on the road, preaching to people, al
ready limping as result of bites by the
free-siIver cur, the sovereign remedy of
wound.
Among the men who have been thus
employed and carried on the payroll of
the big bonanzas for a number of years
is William J. Bryan, of Nebraska. A
paid agent of and spokesman for the sill
yer combine, he has not. since his re-.
tirement from congress-, had any other
visible means of support.
"The richest men in the world, the
proprietors OF the big bonanzae, hire
orators like Bryan exactly as other
wealthy men hire fddlers, and value
them about as highly. Silver orators,
like fiddlers, come In at the back doors
of the big bonanzas and eat at the SER
wants table,"
This charge was recently reiterated by
Senator Thurston on the stump, and has
never been denied by Bryan.
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ovEK-rHE-wATEE COMMENT.
Logical Reasoning Anent Oar Possible
Change OF Standards.

Logical Reasoning Anent Our Possible
Change OF Standards.
LONDON, Aug. lS.-The Westminster
Gazette, in financial article this after
noon, says:
"Bryan's speech will certainly not IN
crease confidence in the minds of inves-
tors. It is replete with financial heresies
and will cause investors everywhere to
desire to withdraw their money from
America while they are able to obtain
gold in payment for debts. Should the
free-silver party be elected, gold un-
doubtedly will be driven out of circula-
tion and a substantial premium at once
be demanded by those possessing it.
.'We do not believe individual AmeIi-
cans will take advantage of the political
dishonesty proposed by the Democratic
convention, whereby even existing con-
tracts calling for payment in gold will
not be valid, when free coinage is car
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-08-14
BRYAN NOT DISCOURAGED.
Adverse Criticism Fails to Phase the
Boy Orator.

Boy Orator.
New YoRK, Aug. 13.-If Mr.. Bryan
had any doubts as to the success of his
speech last night he did not show it this
morning. He was up early, read the
newspaper interviews and comments.
The adverse tone of most of the articles
did not seem to worry him in the least.
He was especially gratifiCd at the fact
that all the newspapers printed his
speech.
81 did not expect to overcome all the
prejudice at one blow. Neither did 1
expect to set the North river on fire with
oratory. 1t was not the time for ora
tory. but for serious argument and dis
cussion. l am pleased with my recep-
tion."
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Help wanted-male.

Observation-Disclosures for campaign book "Bry-
Bryan, written by R. L. Metcalf, editor Omaha
World Herald, appointed author by Bryan.
Contains speeches and platform. A bonanz for
agents, free silver mine Tor workers. Only
s1.50. The only authorized book. so per cent.
Credit given. Freight paid Outfit free. Begin
now with choice of territory Permanent, prof
table work for '96. address,, The National
augo-1m
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ryeh valley Roller Flour MIlls.

Tygh Valley Roller Flour Mills are
running full time on No. 1 wheat.
Flour equal to the best always on hand.
Prices to suit the times. Also mill feed
in quantities to suit.
w. M. MCCoRKLE & SoN.
augS-6mw Proprietors.
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wanted.

Mrs. Drews is prepared to furnish
board and lodging for four or Eve pupils
attending school in The Dalles at $12
per month. Apply at residence, corner
Court and Tenth streets. ag12-d1m
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-08-14
For Infants and Children.

are prepared to do all kinds OF work in our Hue
We make Corsets, Ladies' Dress Reform Waists,
Misses and Childrens Waists. Abdominal Bands
or Supports OF various STYLES. These goods are
all made to order; a good fit guaranteed or no
sale. Why not patronize home industry? If this
western country had ten per cent. OF the money
paid eastern and foreign manufactures it would
make us all rich. Why not keep the money at
home by building industries at home. Fac
tory and office at corner Second aud Washington
entrance at First National Bank.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-08-14

There's more clothing destroyed by
poor soap than by actual wear as the
free alkali rots them. Hoe cake is
pure. jIy24-i
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-04
DIG HIS OWN GRAVE.

Allison Dewitt of Battle Ground is
a man whose many eccentricities haze
been source of wonder and aml5se-
naent to his acquaintance for many
years. Mr. DEWITT is so years Old, and
as he advanced in years he worried lest
his remains would not receive proper
attention after death. He has lived for
nearly half a century in a little hut,
and being without the companionship
of anyone, the certainty of death 50
preyed upon his mind that he deter
mined to arrange for his burial. Ac-
cordingly he selected a spot for his last
resting place and began digging his
grave. His extreme old age prevented
close application to the task, and it
was nearly a year before the grave was
completed. He then procured brick
and mortar and spent several weeks
more in lining the excavation with a
serviceabIe wall. The entire job was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-04
PERFECT ARM OF A WOMAN.
What a Noted Sculptor Says Regard
ing Its ProDortions.

Il find great difficulty in getting a
model with good arms" said a we'll
known sculptor recently. 1T is astonish-
ing how very few women have arms that
conform to the standard. A perfect arm
measured from the armpit to the wrist
joint should be twice the length of the
head. The upper part of the arm should
be large, full and well rounded. The fore
arm must not lie too fiat, not nearly so
fiat as a mans S, for example. A dimple
at the elbow adds beauty to a well-pro-
portioned arm.
From q. well-molded shoulder the whole
arm should taper in long, graceful curves
to a symmetrical and rounded wrist 1t
is better to have an arm that harmonizes
even if the parts do not follow the gen
orally accepted lines. For instance, a full,
round upper arm which is joined to a fat
or thin forearm has a very bad effect. 1t
is only a degree worse, however, than a.
graceful weli-molded forearm tackled on
to thin, scrawny upper arm.
Correctness of form is not the only
thing necessary for a good arm. The
owner must possess the power of express
sion in her arms. AS a general thing
American women are deficient in this
Those naGonalities which show the most
expression in their arms are the Spanish,
French and Italians. The warmeSt adj
mirer of Sarah Bernhard would not
claim that she had beautiful arms, yet no
one can say that the divine Sarah ever
appears ungainly in consequence. Much
more lies in the faculty of arm expression
than is generally supposed. Boston
Post
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-04
PRETTY FANC-TEs OF ASHTON.

A lovely ball gown of pale yellow
lisse thickly sewn with jewels, yelling
a pointed bodice of yellow and white
brocade; soft folds of lisse are caught
down around the decolletage with la
France and Jas roses and the sleeves
were founces Of brocade and lisse.
Another beauty is. of white satin.
bodice embroidered in a raised design
of pearls and diamonds outlined with
gold; pulled bertha and sleeves of white
tulle. Lime-green satin ribbon adds
to its richness.
A neat little morning gown in beige
canvas has the full bodice arranged in
minute tucks On the shoulders, fast
ened across with folds of apricot nous
seine de sole, with white-and-gold
cord and buttons; a narrow vest with
a white neckband striped with orange
and black.
The latest thing in note papers is a
pale-green sage, plain, with a narrow
border of white, or, strange to say,
sealing wax red. This is gravely an
nounced in England, but will not find
favor on this side.
Something startling in white alpaca
gowns is a bodice formed entirely of
incfl-deep tucks, the sleeves of the
tucks to the elbow, where the puff be-
gins; a pale-green satin ribbon belt
falls in long ends to the hem of the
skirt, which, by the way, is also tucked
for q. foot
A novel hat brought over from Paris
for the races in England is of gray
satin straw interviewer with folds OF
white taffeta cut on the bias. A brim
scalloped all around in two rows, sup
ports a high, stove-pipe crown. The
crown is surrounded with black velvet
ribbon ending ON the left side in smart
bows mixed with a brilliant bunch OF
cherries and three black quilts edged
with white Between the double row
of straw of the brim appears a bunch
of cherries and a spiashing bow o.
black ribbon falls on the hair in tht
back. This is a hat which will be
seriously regarded by the assembled
women.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-04

heavy sideboards and china closets
1t is from this room that, through
the immense glass windows, the noun
tains may be seen.
At the southeast corner, with win
dows facing the rear, is the billiard
room, with woodwork of rich dark
color; the floor and the ceiling are of
mosaic. One artistic piece of work
here is picture of woman. draped.
1t was originally painted nude, but
was changed at Mrs. Vanderbilts sug-
gestion. This room has space enough
for four billiard tables, and, with it's
CHEEKY fire, and big, easy chairs, is a
most agreeable lounging room.
For the guests there are thirty-three
chambers, some arranged in suites up
stairs, a handsome little elevator be-
ing provided for those who do not
care to walk.
The sleeping apartments and private
rooms of the family are on the second
floor Part of this floor and all of the
third is given up to the guests apart
ments. The small army of servants
occupy the fourth floor.
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over and be back to the telephone in
ample time to hear the answering ring.
The bell having rung, you ring again,
place tfeereceiver to your ear and re-
mark: .Ah you tGl'yar?
This is the exchange says the girl
at the other end. Please pye fr'pence
to the bawx.' This means that you are
to drop four pennies, equal to eight
cents, into the little wooden box at
your elbow. Each copper as it falls
strikes a gong, and the blows are loud
enough to be heard through the tele-
phone by the girl at the Office. Having
been satisfied that you have deposited
the toll, she politely asks:
"'Wot nunlbah, please?
Look hyar, you say; I want three
one-six-one, and look sharp, please,
as I wish to catch tryne' You say
'tryne instead of train so that the
young woman will know what you
mean. You hang up the receiver and
wait five minutes. Then your bell
rings, you giveean answering ring, and
hear this:
IS sorry. but three-one-six-one is
engyged. III call you wen they We
finished
There is where you get the chance
to read a novel or please yourself in
any way you like for, say half an hour
Maybe it will be less if you are sharp
ly looked after by the operator. Even
tually your bell tinkles. You ring back
and start in with the inevitable, 'Ah
you th'ray?' The voice at the other
end is that of a man this time-evi-
IDENTIFY a clark who speaks a different
kind of English and betrays his hum
bic position by his extreme politeness
and careful use of 'sirs':
" Three -six-one, sir. 700 did you
wish to speak with, sir?'
g This is Mr.. Breezy of American, at
the Hotel Victawria. Please ahsk Mr..
Herbert if he will do Mr. Breezy the
honor to dine with him at his hotel at
1880 tonight
Yessir, 'alf a minute, sir; odd the
wire sir. pause five minutes.) Mr.
'Erbert's compliments, sir, and I'm to
sye ell be delighted Anythink yelse,
sir?'
g No, thanks; that's ALL And then
you ring off and hustle back to your
room to get dressed for dinner. At
least that's about the way it goes if
you speak the language and under
stand it and have lots of time to spare.
If you speak only United States, and
don't understand middle class Eng
lish as you hear it spoken in London,
don t monkey with a telephone. Call a
messenger and send a note. 1t will be
much more satisfactory and, if it is
amy distance inside of a mile, will be
quicker. ''-Chicago Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-04
FIRST LADY OFF THE WHITE HOUSE
Memorial to Abigail Adams to Be
CraotaJ ~ ouiucx yTass.

Erected at Quincy, Mass.
With regard to the plan for the.
erection of a cairn on Payne's hill,
in Quincy, in honor of Mrs. Abigail
Adams, which the Adams chapter of
Quincy of the Society of the Daugh-
tiers of the Revolution are to build on
the 18th of June. it seems that the
idea of erecting this memorial was dis
cussed by the members of this society
at the time of the building of the cairn
in honor of Miles S.andiSh, at Squan-
tum, last September. The matter hay
ing also been presented to the Quincy
Historical society. it became matter
of courtesy to try to arrange a joint
celebration by the two societies, and
Mrs. Titus, the regent of the Adams
chapter of Quincy of the Society of the
Daughters of the Revolution, states
that she wrote to the secretary of the
Quincy Historical society, and also to
the curators, some six weeks ago, re-
questing that a meeting should be
called to consider the matter. No ac-
ton having been taken by the Quincy
Historical society, it was voted to pro-
coed independently with the celebra-
ton, which has the approval of their
president as there should be no rival
ry between societies which have for
Their opJeCI Tie dN' e1i4SSAlle4I vi pa
triotic work.
The invitation sent out by the Daugh
tiers of the Revolution is as follows:
1.-THE Adams chapter of Quincy, Mass,
Society of the Daughters Of the Revo-
luton, invites you to be present upon
the top of Payne's hill, Quincy, at u
o'clock noon, June IT, 1896, to assist
in the erection of a cairn in honor of
Mrs. Abigail Adams, and to mark the
spot UPON which, with her son, John
Quincy Adams, then a boy of s years,
she watched the smoke and listened to
the guns of the battle of Bunker Hill
Each person present is requested to
add a stone to the pile.