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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-12-21
THE ABUSE OF A GOOD THING

= III I'D OO1I Ut II OOOO L III N0
The necessity for reform in pen
sion legislation is becoming every
day more apparent, and for the first
time the abuse of the laws, passed in
gratitude to the nations defenders,
seems to receive general recognition
among our national legislators. The
annual sums spent for pensions
amounts to $141 ,25O,0OO, and unless
some measures are taken looking
toward curtailment, it promises to go
even higher. The money spent for
pensions is almost third Of our ag-
gregate national expenditure.
Pensions are a burden left by the
great civil war, which we cannot ex-
Fcct to get rid of for many years.
In SO far as they are just and neces-
sary the people want to bear them
and would not evade the responsi
biIlty if they could. The obliga-
tion is an honorable one, and it IS the
abuse, and not the debt itself, which
arouses criticism. No one is willing
to forget the services which the men
of '61 rendered the union, and as
long as there remains dollar in the
national treasury, no needy veteran
should be allowed to be in want.
But in this, as in everything else
which pertains to our national well
fare, we should be courageous enough
to look at things squarely, and not
condone fragrant violations of the
laws intent, either through too much
sentiment or through fear of being
unpopular.
The pension system is peculiarly
liable to abuse, and perhaps some de-
gree of fraud would evade the strict
est administration. But it is posi-
BILE that several avenues of fraud can
be closed, and to this end the atten-
tion of congress should be drawn.
One of the best suggestions yet
proposed is lhat of publishing the
list of pensioners, so that they. may
be known IN every community. This
would tend to bring many frauds
to light. Where man whose claim
TO pension was founded on deafness
is discovered to be competent man.
ager of long distance telephone, as
is reported in a New York paper,
somebody will be sure to see that
this knowledge reaches the pension
office.
An amendment such as the pen
sion commissioner suggests, refusing
pensions to widows who marry old
soldiers after their pensions began,
would also be a helpful reform.
Then let congress be chary about
passing private pension bills, except
in known meritorious cases, and
much headway will have been made.
The country is not forgetful of
her defenders, but, as has been aptly
said, "We must see that our roll of
honor does not become one of scan
dali
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-12-21
BuckIen's Ar1nca saIve.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises. sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains.
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cul es piles, or no pay required
1t is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
ton. or mcney refunded. Price % cents
per box. For sale by Blakeley and
Honghton, druggists.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-12-21
J. s. ScHENK. H.M BEAL,
PRESIDENT. Cashier
First National Bank.

THE DALLES OREGON
A General Banking Business transacted
Deposits received; subject to Sight
Draft or Check.
Collections made and proceeds promptly
remitted on dav of collection.
Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold on
New York, San Francisco an1 Port
land.
DIRECTIONS
D. P. THOMPSON. JNo. s. ScHENcK.
Ed. M. WILLIAMS, GEO. A. LIEBE.
81. NJ. BEAIL.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-12-21
|DalIes, Moro and Antelope
STAGE LINE.
Through by. daylight via Grass Valley, Kent
and Cross Hollows.
DOUGLAS ALLEN, The DalIes.
c. M. WHITELAW. Antelope.

Stages leave The Dalles from UmatilIa House
at a. m, also from Antelope at 1880 a.. every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Connections
made at Antelope for Prineville, Mitchell and
points beyond. Close connections made at The
Dalles with railways, trains and boats.
Stages from Antelope reach The Dalles Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays at 1:30 p. m.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-12-21

As we keep no servant girls and don't sport
horse and buggy, we can underseD anyone in
the city. Being practical harness-nake er, we
do our own work. Carriage trimming spec
ialty- For sample Of our WORK, look at the Uma-
tilla House Bus.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17
The Silver Crisis In Mexico.

W. II. Hull, a former resident Of Ell
.Paso, Tex. and now living at Mexico
City, has just arrived from that capital
;and says that the slump in silver has
caused bad state of affairs. Foreign
goods have advanced 25 per cent. Deal
ers in importations are in bad shape to
meet maturing paper. Trade is good,
hut the low price of silver and the high
price of exchange have almost caused a
panic.
Manufacturers are springing up all
over the republic, but they cannet sup
ply the demand, and until the demand
is supplied in every line Mexico will be
in bad way with her deprecated cur
rency. The poorer classes do not feel
the effects Of deprecated silver, as they
use nothing but home productions The
rich and middle classes are the sufferers.
and the American who must have Amer
ican goods feels severely the money
crisis now existing in the southern re-
public
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17
A Good Reason.

The general passenger agent Of one
Of the Chicago trunk lines received a
letter from a Kansas man tho other day
requesting pass for himself to Chicago
and return. There was nothing about
the letter to indicate that the writer
had any claim whatsoever to the oourte-
ny he requested, but the railway man
thought that perhaps the Kansan had
some connection with fhe road in some
way, possibly as local freight agent.
So he wrote back, "Please state explie.
lily OH what account you request trans
portation. BY return mail came this
reply, "I've got to go to Chicago some
way, and don't want to walk. "-Ex-
chan0e
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17

Fifteen years ago Carrie Burch was o
yservant gifl in California household
where William r. Hastings was also
employed. The girl became i'll and had
to leave, ,but had no money. Hastings
loaned her 5000, and she went away.
The years. rolled by without the 5000
being returned, and Hastings had for
gotten thesoccurrence when he received
aIletter from barrister in London stat
ing that an estate of k73. 900 had been
left him by.a Mrs. Hall, formerly Miss
Carrie Bureh Of California. Hastings
could hardly believe what he read, but
he has the money now, and for his gen.
serosity to strange girl years ago he
has become Independently rich. When
the girl left California. she went to
Australia as nurse and there married
a retired English merchant, who died
some years afterward, and the widow
then returned &C. London andlived there
nntil her death.--Exchange
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17
AMELiE RlvES' NEW BOOK.


H Will He illustrated by Her Husband,
prince Troubsskoy.
Princess Troubezkoy .(Amelie Rives)
has been ut work on her new book at
her home in Virginia. The work II
now almost complete.
In an interview with a correspondent
the other day Princess Troubezkoy said:
my new book is to be my greatest
effort twill be more startling than
The Quick or the Dead:' and infinitely
more interesting. 1t is really practical
demonstration of Tolstoi 81 teachings in
The Kreutzer Sonata"
The princess is not yet entirely recov-
.ered from her illness, but u.s. gaining all
the time. Her bad health was caused,
tits said, by the severe criticisms made
upon her other book. 1.-The Qnick or the
,Dead?''
my story is finished,"s she said, "all
hut the rewriting and the naming. In
the early autumn it will be in the
hands of my publishers. The prince
and / are going to New York then for
awhile. We are going to have q studio
and will remain some months.
"You know the prince will play q
part in my new book. He will illustrate
1t, and very beautifully.
"He hastwo sketches finished, one Of
my hero walking through the wood
reading, another Of the heroine seated
at the piano playing the first presto Of
Beethoven 'Kreutzer Sonata. Chi
cago Tribune.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17
TO TEACH THE MINERS.

A 6choolma'am Takes the Frame of q
Echoolhouse to the Klondike.
Among the passengers on the steamer
Humboldt, which sailed from San Fran
cisco the other day for Alaska, was
Mrs. T.. q. Rowland, q Boston young
woman and recent graduate 0f Har-
ward annex. Shewas accompanied by her
husband and father-in-law. Mra How
land is well aware that juvenile stu
dents ana scarce in Dawson, 80 she will
look Tor pupils among the miners.
Mrs. Rowland has talked with many
persons who have returned from Oaw-
son and has been informed that many
Of the men there would be glad Of an
opportunity to gain "a little book learn
ing now that they are in q good way to
become wealthy. Besides, during the
long winter months, when little can be
done digging gold, they would hail the
establishment of school as desirable
resource during the long hours Of dark
ness. a
She carries the frame and all the ma
terial for schoolhouse, ready to be put
together, with books, states, charts and
other supplies. Her husband will run a
steamboat ON the Yukon. York
Sum-
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17

nTeInssse N uov Made Into Ram and
uvswn esgnv Cast H Deught.
"Thc old fashicoed. mo iamps II rapid
y disappearing ss m article Of ccm-
mcsce, /" said prominent grocer. "and
In IT. pisce have como . number of
airups which are more costly and by
no means az satisfactory, especially to
the lttt1e ones, who delight. ~ we did
when we We're young, In having 'lasscs
on their bread. Most Of the molasses
goes into the distilleries, where II 10
made into rum. for which. notwith-
standing the efforts of our temperance
workers, the demand IL constantly on
the increase. especially IN the New
Englsnd states and forthe export trade.
The regular -drinker Of rum will take NO
other liquor In its place II no can help
1t. Hseems to reach the spot more d.
rectly than any other dram.
1.-The darker brown sugars have also
disappeared, and they arc not likely'to
return, owing to the methods OF boiling
andithe manufacture. Granula(pd sugar
Is Of the same composition, as far as
saccharine qualities are concerned, as
loaf, cut loaf cube and crushed and
differs from them only in that its crys-
tails do not cohere. This is because IL IL
constantly stirred during the process OF
capitalization. The lighter brown sug-
ars ftaste sweeter than the white, for
thesreason that there IL some molassef
in them. lHousekeepers have difficulty
these days in finding coarse, dark sug-
ars, which are always preferred for use
in putting up sweet pickles. making
cakes and similar uses. As they cannot
get brown sugar any more, 1t may bt
well for them to remember that they
can simulate brown sugar by adding Q
teaspoonful of molasses to- each quartz,
of pcnnd. Of the white Rranulated sug
ar. This combination does as well IL
all household recipes that call fo1
brown sugar az Sie article itself, and
besides. Il saves them great deal oil
hunting for brown sugar, which, a
said before, has disappeared from ths
market. ''-Eastport Sentinel.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17
The Eye of q Child.

Who can explain or fathom the won.
drous instinctof the child? Lying in the
arms Of its nurse, in its carriage or else
where, its large, round, wondering eyes
roam over a sea of faces till suddenly
its features break into sweet smile, q
baby laugh dances in its eyes, perhaps
the tiny hands are extended. and the lit
tie body gives a bound as though ii
would throw itself through space. What
has happened? 1t has recognized a
friend, nothing more and no less. II
makes no mistake. Wiser, perchance,
In that moment of inexperienced
helplessness than it will be years
afterward, when the world and its in
mates have been studied in the light
of instruction and experience, its love
Offering is seldom il ever mistakenly
presented. BY what power Is this child
love directed? BY what subtle influence
does IL sec and know what i'm after
years IL may strive in vain to discern?-
Good Housekeeping.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17
Mexican Fruit and the Tariff.

The new United States tariff law will
have serious effect OH the Mexican
fruit market. The loudest complaints of
the new law come from Americans who
have invested heavily in orange groves
in Mexico, with the view of exporting
the product to the United States, where
good prices are obtained.
The duty OIL oranges is 90 cents per
cubic foot, which amounts TO 81. 10 per
box. II is said here that this is pro-
hibitory duty and but few Mexican
oranges will now find their way into
United States markets. Great quantities
Of Mexican grapes have also been ship
ped to United States markets In the past,
but the supply from this source will
now be cut of.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17

Berlin. Aug. 1.-THE Ossische Zeitung
publishes q dispatch from Hammerfest,
Norway. which says that one of the
searchers for Herr Andree in fast
steamer met the sealing vessel Aiken
about July 22 and learned from her cap
tain that one OF the crew had shot a
pigeon between North Cape and Seven
islands. on the north coast OF Laplana4
bearing a message addressed to The
Aftonbladet. Stockholm. The message
ran as follows: "Eighty-two degrees
passed. Good journey northwards. An
dree." The date Of the message cannot
be ascertained.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17


ghs Demand II New - Small Thst ths
Trade NsgisSts Fbsns
One Of the most curious s6solg Of tho
general replacing Of horses BY eIsctrici-
y and cable traction for drawing street
cars IL being experiepced by one OF tho
extensive car lines In this city which
still uses horses One would suppose
that, since the only lines In the whole
country which continue 70 use horses
now form but very small percentage
Of those which used. them i've years
ago, these lines would have much
wider range Of choice and could get
horses Of y grade superior 70 tho gen.
oral run OF those which used to be
Offered to them. Remarkable ~ IL may
seem, this In tho exact cpposite of the
truth.
The New York city line referred to
runs In direct competition with the
cable lines Of tho upper west side. and
Its managers, who recently purchased
it, determined as soon M they came In
TO possession to place upon 1t superior
lot of horses, and In this way improve
it's running until mechanical propulsion
could be introduced. Orders were sent
out to buy the needed horses. Much to
the surprise of tho managers. 1t was
discovered that there were almost no
street car azorses OF any kind To be
bought.
The explanation Of this situation lies
In the fact that since the demand for
street car horses almost ceased the trade
machinery ty which they were gathered
has fallen iYto disusc A few years ago
the street car horses were one OF the
most important features Of the horse
market. They were animals OF stand
ard grade and of almost stable price,
and every part of the country contributed
its quota. The street car horse had &c
be big and able and sound Of limb and
wind, but it might be of any age. Few
lasted long enough In the service tc
make the question Of . few years more
or less of any consequence The demand
was constant, and the price never varied
In New York more than from about
| e125 to 81 59.each. Dealers could always
count upon getting this price and get
T, ting it promptly. and az consequence
every horse which would answer the
purpose was safe investment at lit
tie smaller price, and clean profit o1
! $40 horse was regarded as u fair mar
gin in handling them.
Horses of all sorts. which lacked th'
qualities of speed, beauty or youth, bu
| possessed the other requirements, were
/ quickly sorted out from the markets o.
the whole conntry, and every big dealer
was always able to gather droves Of cal
horses as fast as the companies needet
them. The trolley has superseded TIN
car horses, and Car horses are no longe
quoted as staples in the market. Th'
companies which still use them ar
Obliged to 60 out and search the mart
and buy them one by one instead O
simply sending out an order for 100 O
200 or 500 and getting them as readil!
as they would SO many loads Of hay o.
grain. New York Sun.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17
HE GOULD FORGIVE HER.


For IntHis. Opinion Mrs. Siddons Did Not
Marry an Actor.
Mra. Siddons, tho actress, was born
in 1865. at the Shoulder of Mutton inn,
Brecon,i South Wales, Of parents con-
nected with the theater, her father,
Roger Kemble, being q strolling man
ager. The child Sarah, was reared in q
theatrical atmosphere, and at 10 she
was playing Ariel.
As she grew up she became very
beautiful and had many admirers,
among whom was Henry ;Siddons, q
young actor in her fathers company,
who had little difficulty in winning the
girls heart. Mr.. and Mrs. sKemble had
made uptheir minds that Sarah should
not margin the profession, in conse.
quenoe Of which they strenuously op.
posed the marriage. and young Siddons,
In At Of ,retaliatory humor, composed
q song detailing their opposition and
! his trials, which brought about his
{, speedy dismissal from the company.
Sarah left the company, too, and hired
out as ladyss.maid in Warwickshire for
I, two years.
During this time the lovers carried on
a lively correspondence and finally,
gaining the reluctant consent Of the
Kembles, were married at Trinity
church, Coventry, In 1878, when Sarah
IS was IS.
II 10 said that Mr.. Kemble told her II
she ssver marriOd an actor 1t would
make him discard her forever. After
her qlnarriage he said, II may forgive
you without breaking my word, for you
have certainly mot married an actor.
whatever the gentleman himself may
Thinks his vocation" This is,on au-
thority Of Lady Eleanor Butler, who
knew the persans--St. Louis Globe
lDam0csat
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17

The remarkable series Of portraita
found in Egypt are described in The
Monthly Illustrator and the methods Of
the old artists employed.
The methods Of these ancient days
were totally different from those Of the
present day and were evidently vastly
more durable. Panels of wood. were
used to paint on-sycamore and cypress
-slso panels of papier maohe, and oc-
casionally they were formed by gluing
three thicknesses of canvas together.
These panels were usually about II
inches long by z inches wide. The artist
used liquid wax instead Of oil to mix
the colors, which were made not from
vegetable, but from mineral substances
and were Of marvellous brilliancy and
permanence-blue powdered lapis lasu-
Ii, green malachite, red oxide of iron,
etc. The colors were laid on in patches,
somewhat after the fashion Of q mosaic.
and afterward blended with an instru-
ment called the cestrum, which appears
to have been lancet shaped spatula,
long handled, with at one end curved
point, ut the other finely dentated
edge. With the toothed edge the wax
could be equalized and smoothed, while
the point was used for placing high
lights, marking lips, eyebrows, etc.
The final process. which gives the
name encaustic to this kind Of painting,
was the burning in of the colors. This
was done by the application of a heated
surface to the panel, though George
Ebers believes that in Egypt the heat
of the sun was probably all that was
needed to complete the artists work.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17
"cMNo MAlDeN's REQUEST"
a Romantic 0irI's sonsstionai Attsnp>sd
huicidG.


= Romantic 0iris scnsstional Attsmp>sd
Huicids.
Romance bad reached an abnormal
stage In the mind Of pretty Gladys L.
Rue of New York. She put on bar
daintiest gown. placed her photographs,
tied Mp with black ribbons, ON 8taud
where sho could SEQ them. locked the
window and the door OF her little room,
turned on the gas, and, Bible In hand,
lay down upon the bed to die.
But Nellie Saunders ran noisily into
the chamber. demanding TO know II
Auntie Gladys didn't want something
TO eat. Mrs. Robert Saunders followed
fast upon her little daughters alarm,
and 90 1t came about that In few min
utes the windows were open, the gas
was expelled and Miss Gladys La Ruo
got up.
The following morning Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Saunders, with whom Miss La
Rue had been stopping. appeared in tho
Jefferson Market Police conrt and de-
clined to press the booked charge OF at
tempted suicide. Gladys was dis
charged. "Her name isn't Gladys La
Rue at ALL, said Mrs. Saunders Its
Hattie Woolfson. and she comes from
Chicago. She went around the house
for an hour singing THE Dying Maid
ems Request before she went to her
own room, fixed herself all up and
turned OH the gas. What father object
'ed to was her habit Of bringing dag
iger down to the breakfast table with
her and saying, If anything happens
to anybody, it will be by means of this
dagger She has been on the stage. -
New York journal.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17

II suppose you know Jinks. who lives
out in your suburbs" said the new ac-
quaintance pleasantly, In an effort to
BE- agreeable
II know of him, returned the sub
urbanite coldly. "but the fact il we
don't move in the same class"
MOP.
"Oh, dear, no. go home two trains
ahead Of him mt night and come down
one train later In the morning. -
Cleveland Leader.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17
NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD
RAILROAD.
OLD COLONY SYST

OLD COLONY SYSTEM.
On and after August !, 1857. trains will run
as follows:
Providence Division.
LEAVE PAwTUCKET FOR
Isoston, o 40, 80, 7 II, sll, Oil, 10 il, a. m.
y II, ljj, ~. oil, ell, sl7, OH p. M. Sun
D4 ~, oI7 81 p. IN. Return. u "a. . IS. 7i5. l5
10 % "A. m; IL 10, 245, SI5, AS. 5l5, 100, 8 ~
II u p. m. Sundays, u 0g, 8 20, D7 20. sls
xsisss.. x as r. y 4; ss s ss III III 3 IT. H. s.s oil
s49, Al, ils, SII, 5ls, ell, 90 7iS. Sit
10 II, ii 10 y. m. Sundays. 5l9. s 80, 8 20, "
So, 0 II q. m; 1917. All, 44s. 6ls. sl7, sH p
North Att,sbore s.d PIsiavills, . -, $40
a. a. m;; a. 90. p. m. Sunday, 81
ws@p pun, pun W wrsnth.m, Norwood Central
Norwood and Dedham, 8 40, 8 20. II ~ n. IN.
~ p. IN. Sundays, o ~ q. m; 20 y. IN.
Msn:neids -. %. II, sL, gil, loI q
m; g ,ssussTs.sys,SIs, $50. III. sI7 a. m; u II
Taunton and New Bedford, 9 40, $40, 10 4.
q. M; IL ~, 2l9, $40, 40, 80, 40. IL - p. IN
Sundays. g ~, 8 - q. m; 5 ~, p. IN.
Middleboros 649, $40, 10 ~ a. M; IL 40
24a. ~, ~. 5l9p m. Sundays, 60 n. N.
plymouth. ~, ~, 10 ~ a. m; l249, "a.
49p m. Sundays. q ~ a. III.
Fftchburg. 8 80, 8 ii a. m; IL II, All d. m
Sundays, IL p. IN.
Lowell, o 80 a. m; IL II, ii p. IN. Sundays
Points ON Cape Cod, 40, a. M; la 40
249, s49. - p. m. Sundays, 8 - a. m.
Cottage City, go, ~ "A. m; l2ls 2I9 p
Nantucket, 9 ~ q. m; r. p. IN. Sundays
q ~ a. IN.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17

Pittsburg. Aug. 1.-THE Carnegie Steel
company has received an order from
Cramps. the Philadelphia shipbullders.
for 30 tons Of diagonal armer to be used
In the construction OF the battleship Ala
bnma. The price In not made public. but
IL Is probable the builders Will pay the
CarnegIes more for the armor than they
will get for IL from the government
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17

One of the latest appliances for use in
bakeshop oven consists Of machine
which takes the whole meat and grinds
1t, mixes water with it and kneads 1t
into dough ready for the oven.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17

Open the doors Of opportunity to tai
ent and virtue and they will do them
selves justice, and property will not be
In bad hands. Emerson.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17

In 1890 tho first large copper coins
were minted in England. putting an
end TO private leaden tokens.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-17

"Mystic Cure" for rheumatism and Neural
Ria radically cures I'm I TO days. Its action
upon the system IL remarkable and mystcri
Gus. IL removes at once the cause and the
disease Immediately disappears. The first
dose greatly benefits; 10 cents and tl.00
Sold by WI. Wood. druggist, 2s5 Main ~
Pawtucket