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KILLED NEAR MORO.
F. Kahler was Run over Las night and
Killed.


The fret accident on the Columbia
Southern railway occurred last evening
just before the train reached Moro, when
F. Kahler lost his life by being run over.
For number of weeks Mr.. Kahler,
who was agent for sewing machine,
had made his headquarters at w. A .
Johnston's store. Not being very success
ful he decided to start out on the road.
AS he had no means, Mr.. Johnston gave
him some money and he started out Sat-
urday morning on foot. 1t must have
been So'clock last night when he reached
Grass Valley canyon, this side of Moro,
and when crossing the trestle saw
the train coming. Being an old man
he was unable to get out Of the way in
time and as it was down grade the train
could not be stopped, consequently the
unfortunate man was run over.
Presumably some one IN Moro had
seen him at Johnston's store and this
morning he received message ihquiring
about Mr.. Kahler. Little was known,
however, except that he had no relatives
here, and only son sore place in the
East. He was man about 60 years of
age. apparently having no one to care
for him, and one whom fate had not
dealt kindly with.
His remains will be buried at Moro.
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At regular meeting of Jas. w.
Nesmith Post No. 80. Department of
Oregon. held on April 8:h, 1899, the
following resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
ResolUed, That we, the members of
this post, in the death of our comrade,
W.. D. Jones, have suffered the loss
of one of our most esteemed members,
endeaied to us by many years of asso-
citation in our order. We have lost a
good friend. a true comrade, and one
that was gallant soldier. The public
has lost useful and upright citizen,
and his family member whose place
can never be filed. To his family
we tender our heartfelt sympathy in
their bereavement.
ResolUed, That we, the members of
this post, judging from all the informa-
ton we have had, ! have reason to think
the action of the coroner,s jury in the
case of Comrade w. D. Jones, recently
killed near Antelope in Waco county,
/ did not fully explainthe circumstances
/ Of the tragedy and we hereby request
that the proper authorities investigate
all.the facts leading up to and ending in
the death of the said- w. D. Jones that
/ full justice may be done.
We direct that these resolutions be
published in the county papers, and
that copy be sent to the family of our
late comrade. j. @. MEMS,
Post Adiutant.
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'sultoftheir entertainment and sale $l55
clear of expenses.
About noon today Mrs. IF. Stephens
received the sad news of the death of
her brother, Ephriam jackson, at
Lebanon, Or. She left on the after
noon train for that place.
The Oregonian contains an announce
ment that will be of interest to many of
our readers: The engagement is an
nounced Of Miss Rose Bloch, daughter
of DR.. and Mrs. ]. Bloch, to Cecil H.
Bauer.
Mr.. w. G, Smith, of Portland, just re-
turned from Trout creek reports con-
siderable activity in mining in that dis.
trict. Mining experts in the. city ex-
pect soon to make a trip into that
section.
There will be ''free- for-all try out''
on the club alleys to make up a "crack''
team of bowlers. The rules and regu-
lations haveIbeenr- posted in the elub, 30
that al smAy be advised concerning it
and enter the contest.
Surely no one will miss hearing Miss
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when Travelling

Whether on pleasure bent or business,
take on every trip bottle of Syrup of
Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and ef-
fectually on the kidneys, liver and
bowele, preventing fevere, headaches
and other forms of sickness. For sale in
90 cent bottles by all leading druggists.
Manufactured by the California Fig
Syrup Co. only.
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Lost.

A email boy About the size of maa,
barefooted, with his fathers shoes on !;
had an empty bag on his back contain
ing two railroad tunnels and bunch of
cold weather; he wore mutton-chop
coat with bean soup Innings. He was
cross-eyed at the back of his neck, and
bis hair was cut curly; was born before
his elder brother and was the baby of
the family. When last seen he was dill
gently shoveling wind off the court
house, under the supervision of Mr..
John Fitzgerald, with the intention of
raising money to get one of those So 35
suits at A. M. Williams & Cos.
Columbia vedette bicycles, '99 model,
e05 Of Mavs & Nrorya,s
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Cleveland Bicycle.

There may be other standards but the
Cleveland bicycle is the standard for
excellence. There is no standard higher
than quality. See them at
MAIER & BENToN's,
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GoIaen Eagle B1cycle.

Golden Eagle bicycles $25. You will
find the Golden Eagle very satisfactory
wheel and one that is thoroughly and
absolutely guaranteed, with the guaran-
tee made good here.
MAIER & BENTON.
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TAKE NOTICE.
TO OUR ADVERTISERS: !:

TO OUR ADVERTISERS
All Changes in Advertisements must
be handed in before 10 o'clock A. NJ, as
no changes will be accepted in the aft
ernOon. This rule will be positive.
CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO.
The Dalles, January 10, ISoo-
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Fresh cracked Nebraska corn at the
Wasco warehouse. Finest kind of
chicken feed, mch25-tf
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OF WALL ST., revised
IINO w y 1aa.lon, 1agae iiS }4ft out; out eighty
tables tab m iu OF valuable information to he speeu-
stamps. PUBLISHER, P. o. Box 1876, n. Y. -Oo III
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Ask your grocer for Clarke & Falk's
pure concentrated havorlng extracts. If
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wAYstDE eLEANlNes.
ga Dolls House"
Tonight at the vogt.

The ladies of the Episcopal Guild
were so fortunate as to realize as the re-
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Our Curtain Special.
Our First Curtain
Offering for the Year

This is the season for renovating your homes
for the summer, and the hanging of fresh new
curtains goes long way toward the beautify-
ing of these places of abode.
We will start the ball rolling by hanging
some of the latest and prettiest things known
to home decoration at prices that will catch
your eyes and involuntarily cause you to pur-
chase some of the late handsome things.
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Columbia Vedette bicycles, '99 model,
$25 at Mays & Crowe's.
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conceruIpg the Death of W. d. Jones.
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New
Today.

Just Received Full Line of
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Resting the Muscles.

When a man is tired he stretches
bis arms and legs and yawns. Birds
and animals, SO far as possible, follow
his example. Birds spread their!
feathers and also yawn. or gape.i
Fowls often do this. Fish yawn;
they open their mouths slowly till
they are round, the bones of the head
seem to loosen and the gills open. :
Dogs are inveterate yawners and
stretchers, but seldom sneeze Gllessi
they have a cold. Cats are always
stretching their bodies, legs and
claws, as every one knoy. who has
had cat for pet.
Horses stretch violently when and
after indulging in q roll, but not as a.
rule on all fours. A stag when stretch
ing sticks out his head, stretches his
forefoot out and hollows his back and
neck as though trying to creep under
bar.
Most rumihant animals stretch when.
they rise up after lying down. Deer,
do it regularly, so do cows. This fact,
is so we'll known that if cow when
arising from lying down does not
stretch herself it is sign she is i'll.
The reason for this is plain-theI
stretch moves every muscle of the.
body, and if there be any injury any
where it hurts. II
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Yes. But our foes are an ocean.
They have but 10 sweep over us and in
undate US.
All the next day. as so we'll recol-
lect, the Indomitaples were Joined by
one continual stream of re-ehforcements.
l began unqualitedly to share your
fathers conviction after the fourth day
following our arrival. On the night Of
this day we met. 1t was perhaps 8
o'clock in the evening Never do re-
call night OF more wondrous clarity
and calm. There was not breath Of
wind, and tn, moon hung crystalline in
heaven without single cloud. Your
father and had mounted small rise OF
ground just outside his own tent, and
stood there, gazing through our glasses
at the dark enormity of those gathered
shapes beyond.
The general-iu-chief," said your
'ather, may order an assault at any
moment, now"
What" I exclaimed. "A night as
;ault?"
why not night assault? Why not
/ speedy assault OF some sort? To re-
main longer like this-to permit the ad-
nnce of the enemy, surgin 6 toward US
with its irrepressible momentum, would
surely be less wise than to rush upon it
with charge after charge OF intrepid
soldiery."
I made no answer; I was peering
through ny glasses at the dusky crowds
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until the gems within are extracted.
The process of extracting takes from
three to six months. The stones
found vary in size from pin-head to
the largest ever found-42S4 karats.
This largest stone when cut weighed
1884 karats. It is one of the ex-
periences of the mine owners that
they lose from ten to fifteen per cent.
of their product each year through
the thefts of employees, who, although
closely watched, still manage to get
away with their loot. The punish
ment for stealing a diamond is fifteen
years. imprisonment. All diamonds
except those which pass through
illicit channels, are sent to England,
the weekly shipments averaging from
100000 to $4,000 karats. The great
est outlet for stolen diamonds is
through the Transvaal to Natal,
where they are shipped by respectable
merchants.
1t is said OF the Rhodes interests in
The mines that they take good care of
their workmen. They have built
model village called Kenilworth with.
in the precincts of the mines. In this
village are cottages for the white
workmen. A clubhouse has been
built for their use and there is a pub.
lie library. The equipment of the
mines is something remarkable. Each
mine has ten circuits of electric lights.
They consist of fifty-two arc lamps of
1000 candle power each and 691 glow
lamps of sixteen and sixty-four candle
power each, or total Illuminating
power of about Ga, 900 candles. Thirty
telephones are located in each mine
and over 100 electric bells to each for
signaling. The lives of the workmen
are insured and every precaution is
taken to make their condition tolerable.
The rate of wages runs from 50 to So
per day. unskilled labor receiving tie
lower price. What effect the closing
of the mines by war have on the world
at large is hard to say. Diamonds
have already risen in price, but there
is large stock on hand in English
and French hands.
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HENS AND THEIR GOOD FRUIT.
They Are an Important Factor in tb

They Are an Important Factor In the
Commercial Life of tho Country.
From the Richmond Dispatch: The
hen of the present day is a most i'm
portant factor in the commercial world
not only on account of her vernal off,
spring, but because civilized people
are daily growing fonder of her eggs.
Statisticians say it is practically i'm
possible to gain an idea as to the exact
number of eggs consumed, though the
export and import figures give par
tial conception Of its enormousness.
Indeed, the statistics indicate that our
feathered friend has all she can at
tend to and barely can spare the time
to assume the responsibilities of rear
ing family. During the year ending
July 80, 1899, the United States ex.
ported 3,693,611 dozen eggs, valued at
S641,2S5. During this period they i'm
ported 225,1SO dozen, valued at S21,-
800, the increased duty on this food
supply having checked their importa.
tion. OF course, these figures are but
fragments of the almost inconceivable
large total which indicates the actual
consumption of eggs in America. In
1898 Chicago alone handled 2,147,95O
cases of thirty dozen each, Of which
only 1,223,356 were shipped out. The
commission houses are generally the
distributing points for eggs in the
large cities, but in the country almost
every local store deals in them. Many
merchants accept them in exchange for
goods, while few receive orders from
the towns and dispose of the eggs to
hotels or other large concerns. The
egg enters into our domestic life not
only as a substantial food staple, but
as an ingredient Of almost every con-
ceivable article of diet. There is prac.
tically no limit to its usefulness IN
this line and when one reflects II
seems almost impossible that the lane
could hold enough hens to meet the
public demand. The secret, perhaps,
lies in the fact that poultry can be
found in every rural barnyard and on
the premises of scores Of urban and
suburban habitations. Every hen
knows her duty and does it. While
some Of them apparently rejoice IN
their labors accomplished, as whole
they are modest and never "let on
that they realize the world could not
comfortably move without them. The
probabilities are that as civilization
increases and the facilities for trans
portation become faster and better,
our feathered friend with the crimson
trimmings will have more and more
to do. Her output in decs des to come
will be the grandest statistical puzzle
of the age, and no mathematician will
be able to make calculations as to the
exact amount of her fruit" When
our neighbor's hens get in our flower
beds we should recall these facts and
permit only our wives and daughters
to throw stones at them.
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to some accounts, at the beginning of
hostilities were anxious no less for the
blood of Rhodes than for the rich
booty of the mines.
Cecil Rhodes is often described as
s'the man who made South Africa. "
Mr.. Rhodes was formerly Premier of
Cape Colony, and is certainly the most
prominent and powerful man in South
Africa. He has achieved that place
in twenty-six years. In 1878 he left
Oxford because, OF q serious lung
trouble, and went to the Cape in
search of health. He is the youngest
son of an English clergyman, and was
born at Bishop Stortford, on July 5,
1858. He did not 60 to South Africa
to seek diamonds, but because his
physician had ordered a change. He
continued his studies while living in
Natal, and returned to Oxford each
year until he took his degree at Oriel
College.
1t is hardly too much to say TINT
Mr.. Rhodes has made his fortune in
diamonds. Diamonds had been dis
covered in South Africa a few years
before he got there. Finally be, too,
caught the fever, and it was not long
before he had staked all he had in
few claims. These be shared viii. his
brother, Herbert, who later reIin-
quished his share and went to the
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The Great Corn States.

''The great corn States, according
to the statistics of last year." writes
John Gilmer Speed, in Ainslee's, 'are
in the order named, Iowa, Illinois,
Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana,
Texas and Ohio. Each of these States
grew in excess of 100, 900, 900 bushels,
while the total of Iowa was 254, $685.
$50 bushels. This year we are prom
ised from Kansas alone in excess Of
$50, 900, 900 bushels. Montana, among
the now States, grew the smallest
amount of corn last year, and Rhode
Island among the old States. In
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts,, Connecticut, North
Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Wash
ington all of the corn grown was con-
sumed at home, practically none of it
being transported beyond the county
in which it was produced. The other
States, according to the amount grown,
shipped corn to other parts of the
country and abroad. In price the
corn on the farms realized all the way
from sixty-six cents a bushel in Mop
tana to twenty-three cents in Iowa,
the general average throughout the
country being % ITO cents per bushel.
In 1897 this general average was 263-lO
cents; in 1895 it was 81 $40 cents; in
1895 it was 25 $40 cents, and in 1894
it was As TO cents. In the latter
year 1884 the production was short,
being somewhat more than twenty per
cent. less than last year.
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injury was comparatively slight. Many
swooned from shock, few died, either
from that or from fright.
But the enemy? All, here l come tc
records OF which you are already so wei!
aware! The enemy was absolutely
crushed below that avalanche Of lunar
matter. The descending fragment Of
the moon covered eight miles in circum-
ference, and it's ravage paused within
lust q mile OF us! Where it struck the
earth now towers o great mountain-or
rather d mountain JuS eXcrescence, With
with six lofty peaks.
Beneath this lies-anarchy.
Not single one Of that gathered foe
survived. The collision, astronomers
declare, threw the earth seriously out
OF her course, and nothing saved her
from the worst of fates but a sudden
e-establishment OF equipoise' between
herself. her sister planets and the san.
But, as you are aware, her position in
space is distinctly changed, and with it
her time, since time is always sidereal.
A terrestrial year was formerly 365
days; it is now 600. But need no. re-
peat, dear nephew, what is already so
familiar to you.
Often now. when I look into the star
~ depths of night, miss the moon, re-
membering those pure and dreamy rays
which so glorified earth. You have seen
pictures of her, either rsgnant in clear
heaven or ploughing through depths OF
cloud which she had made lovely by hel
pearly luster. And yet these pictures
can convey to you no real idea Of what
this ghostly and gracious satellite truly
was, for no painter Of the past has ade-
qua'ely. put the moon iron canvas. And
more than this, my boy, she was the
friend OF lovers. They used to say that
her beams made men mad, and, in o
manner, so they did. Love-mad,
mean. for there was tender intoxica.
ton in her glories when shed upon land
and sea, that has loosennd the tongue
of many bashful lover and made many
O. reluctant maid kindly and acquies-
cent.
Bu-, after all, how can I regret that
our earth now moves through space un.
attended by this beauteous heavenly
handmaid? For the great and most
perfect surviving race which has made
our world sort Of paradise amply com.
pensate me for SO relatively slight q
loss. I must leave it for-the unknown!
And, believe me, it is my daily prayer
that I may find beyond this existence
one of two precious hoons-either the
eternal repose which some Of our phil
osophers declare awaits all Us mortals
Or q bourne OF future sojourn equally
gracious and satisfying as that in which
I linger now.
THE END
Copyright. by the Authors Alliance. AL
lights reserved.
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and which is now Egypt scratched
lpon potsherd the picture Of a man

land which is now Egypt scratched
upon potsherd the picture OF man
and woman. r =
Pleased was bis tribe with that image
came in their hundreds to scan
Handled 1t, smelt It and granted: Verify
this Is man." i
A few months ago, when excavations
were being made in little unexplored
part of Egypt, one of the relic hunters
came upon this potsherd. Little was
thought of the find at the time, but
the finder, an arch@ologist Of Berlin,
was showing it the other day, along
with his other Egyptian relics, to q
German savant, who at once became
interested in it. The savant begged
to be allowed to take the potsherd homeI
and study it more closely. His request
being granted, he did so, and now hei
has given his opinion that the draw-ls
ings on the potsherd are the oldestt
representations of mankind in exist
ence. He believes that they are ati,
least 800 years older than anything Of
the kind discovered before. The
Egyptologist who owns this relic calls
the pictures "The First Man andi'
Woman" s.J, {.
A reproduction Of the pictures is|
given here. It will be noticed that
the man wears "goatee" and that theI
woman in the case has q prominenti
nose. They were evidently people Of
standing in their day and generation.
leaders of society, or King and queen,
perhaps, when they sat for their por-,
traits to the Egyptian Ung. 81
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north, where he met his death while
l,a3,,~ oIopbo,fo Hooil r,1o61p1

north, where he met his death while
hunting elephants. Cecil plodded
away in the diamond fields, where he
superintended his gang of Kafirs. He
was successful in his ventures, and it
was not long before he found himself
the possessor of some S5,000,000.
He was elected to the Cape Parlia-
ment, and by his political adroitness
was made Prime Minister in 1890. He
sought and won riches, but it is un-
fair to assume that he has done so
solely for his own aggrandizement.
With the advancement of his personal
fortune he has also striven to realize
an early dream of bringing Africa un-
der British dominion.
"That's my dream-all English, l"
he said, many years ego, moving his
hand over map OF Africa up to the
Zambesi. Coupled with the acquisi-
ton of wealth, he has lebored toward
that end.
One of the results was the N1atabele
war and the defeat and death of King
Lobengula. The jameson raid across
the Transvaal border was probably
due to tke-inhuence of Cecil Rhodes,
for he has never denied completely
with it. and as its result he resigned
in 1896 as Prime Minister Of Cape
Colony, =.
Kimberley is the diamond region OF
the world, far surprising those Of
Brazil il richness. Kimberly is not
a city in the modern use of the word.
It is q great camp in which mems pas
sions rise and fall as the treasures Of
the earth are uncovered or not found.
Tho ran,n 10 in whnt ia "alia5 tha Vaal
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Honoluf,. I,eIle Is without Guile.

People rave for hours over the Ian
gushing Spanish girls, but like the
native song sing, Give me the Homo
lulu BELLE" whose graceful form,
though nearly concealed meath the
flowing gowns, can be family discerned
through the clinging folds, and whose
thoughts and passions can be read in
the shy glances from their telltale eyes.
They are rather dark, we'll developed,
even at an early age, with even fea-
lures and large, expressive eyes, coal
black hair, intensely white teeth and
walk leisurely, for this .iS-;a tropical
climate One can not help admiring
these pleasant, soft-speaking women.
The beautiful flower wreaths worn aa
hat decorations also tend, apart from
their natural attractiveness, to set off
the langushing beauty Of these ma
tiyes. A language that contains but
twelve letters in its alphabet, one word
meaning several things. tends to inno-
cence of mind and habits. The scan-
dals and intrigues, without which the
Spanish would perish. are unknown to
the Honolulu belle. and in her straight
forward and candid glance you can
note the elevation CT her mind and the
purity OF her thoughts. They love
madly, too. as many tales bear out
But that l know not of!"-Cincinnatl
ENQUIRER