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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-07-24
August MAGAZINES.

LIPPNcoTT's-The marked feature in the
present number of this handsome magazine is
an article on Smoking" by j, V. Darling, in
which the writer combats the view taken by
Mr.. Parton in his atlantic essay. He endeav-
ors "to show that what we knoao of the evil eff
fects of tobacco is insufficient to condemn it
that while it is foolish to declare its Utility es-
tablished, it is premature to assert that its
pernicious influence is determined conclu-
sion" and he declares that "our individual ex-
perience of its effects is the best guide for our
personal conduct in the present absence of sci
entific information" A pleasant doctrine for
the smokers Other articles in this number
are: "Dallas Galbraith"-Part VIII, by Mrs
r. Harding Davis; echo Notch" by R. Nor
ris Smith; "Our Globe in 1868" by Professor
Schele de We're; I'm Month" by Miss Anne
Brewster; "a Months Holiday in Germany"
by Ellis Yarnall; Providence" by Edward E.
Law; ga Winters Night in wintry Place"
by 80 -; "Alas! Poor Ghost" by Leonard
Kip; "Clainis of Bondholders," by Hon. Am
asa Walker; "Leathern Men," by Henry T.
Tuckerman; Madame La Duchesse," by Mrs.
R. M Hooper; my Acquaintance with Plan
chette,' by Rev. Samuel w Dufield "a Noe
turne by Chopin" by G. f. Daniel; "Garibaldi
and Italy," by Edward S. Gross; "Our Month
ly Gossip" Literature of the Day"
OUR Young Folks offers it's usual agreeable
variety of entertaining and instructive read
ing, music and wood-cuts. Contents: Gun the
Creek; Somebody; pussy and Emily Ma
ture, by Mrs. Stowe; No. 7 of "William Hem
rvs Letters to his Grahdmother"; sGreen An
pies, with an illustration which is the noorest
thing in the number; Midsummer; "Rutter
hles with six illustrations; "The Great Sea
Eight off Sluys;" Cast Away in the Cold nv
Dr. l. L. Hayes" "The Ash Box Scboo, ,
Music, etc. etc.
A LADY OF THE OLD SCHooL.-Eyerybody
has heard OF those nice old boys, "gentlemen
of the old school," but the Newburyport Her.
aid knows a lady Of the same old scpool
1t says that Miss Abigail Kettell was ninety.
six years old on Wednesday. She still retains
her faculties and divides her time in the use of
the book and the needle. She converses as
freely as if she had seen hut twenty-five
years, and her long experience renders her
conversation not only interesting, but very in
structIve. She thinks as much of Lord Ches-
terneid as ever, and of the two, rather exceeds
than ialls TO adopt his maxims A few Sum
days since at the close of church service, see
ing that her minister was not provided with
an umbrella, she waited at the door and offer
ed her own. He declined, but as she insisted
! he proposed to act as her gallant, and after
waiting upon her to her home he accepted her
oner' realizing before he reached his own resi-
10 ha..
kindness.
"a correspondent of the Maine Standard
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-07-24

PRIZES IN BoTANY.-The Natural History
Society short time since, offered to the class
in Botany in our High School, two prizes, one
for the largest collection of wild flowers native
to Maine, and other for the largest and most
scientifically arranged collection of the same
Wednesday, after the exercises were conclud-
ed at the High School, Rev. E. G. Bodies in be-
talf of the Portland Society Of Natural His
tory, in an appropriate address presented to
Miss Edith M. Stinchfield as the first prize, a
valuable and beautifully bound volume for the
largest herbarium containing 161 pressed flow
ers. The second prize was awarded to Miss
Alice S. Lowell and Miss Hattie E. Gerris h
and each of the young ladies were presented
with elegant books Of equal value.
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Cristadoro's Hair Preservatiye.

Would you have luxurant glossy tresses clustering
around your brow. like tendrills round parian shaft
Purchase that celebrated and maehless preparation
known throughout the fashionable world as Girls
tadoro's hair pr eservatye and beautiier
Sold by all Druggists, and applied by all Hair
Dressers. Mandatory No GO Maiden Lane. Prn-
cipal Depot No Astor House. june29eodeeeow1msN
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MARRIED.

In Rockland, July Z, Charles F. Bickmore and
Almeda s. Kaler. -
In Cushing. June rs, Levi L. Robinson and Julia
r. Clark. &bsba fFr u
In Camden. July 4 Tilson Benner and Miss Addie
Deshon. both OF Waldoboro -e
In Rockland, July I, Francois Pacott and Abbie
r. Bickmore y
In West Camden, July H. Thomas Jones and Mrs
Bassha L. Mcclellan, both OF Warren.
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state News.


The Lewiston Journal says little daughter
piece of acorn some time last winter, since
which time she has been troubled with very
bad cough-so that she was thought to be in
consumption. About three weeks ago she
coughed up the acorn, which was found to be
sprouted, and she has been well ever SINCE
Babson, aged two years, son of Mr.. B. f. Jen-
nings, of Greene, was fatally injured on We'd
nesday, by the falling of cart body upon his
head His skull was crushed, and he survived
the accident but a short time
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CARDENAS. Brig j Lncon-420 hhds IS ties
molasses to order: 8 bbls do. master.
MAITLAND, Ms. Sch Planet-5O tons plaster, 20
cords wood, to order.
EXPORTS. Is
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Visit of Odd Fellows.

--.- SECOND DAY. -
Thursday morning the Machigonne and
Eastern Star Encampments of this city met at
their Hall, and from thence marched in pro-
cession to the Falmouth, United States and
Preble Hotels, where they took up their guests
of the Concord, Portsmouth and Haverhill
Encampments, and escorted them to the
steamer Charles Houghton, which proceeded
without much delay to Little Chebeague Is
land, where the whole party landed. They
amused themselves in various ways until two
O'clock, when the dinner, including a splendid
clam bake, was announced as ready. Our Wis
itors did ample justice to this and many of
them who have never before witnessed or tast-
ed OF clam-bake, expressed their surprise as
well as pleasure at the richness or the feast
Judge Kingsbury presided and the toasts
which were omitted on Wednesday were given
out To the one complimentary to our visitors
from abroad R. w. G. P. Hayden of Mass,
responded.
To one complimentary 10 the Masonic
Brethren, r. E. G. G. Dodge of this city, re-
sponded. --. HF
To one complimentary to the Right Worthy
Grand Encampment OF Maine, M. w. G. P.
Reed OF this State, responded. l5r sF ...E.
10 one complimentary to the Right Worthy
Grand Lodge of Maine, r. w. G. M. Sargent
responded. .i..
The company returned to the city about 5
o'clock, landing at the wharf at the foot of
State street. The members of the Portsmouth
Encampment here took the cars for home
The Concord and Haverhill Encam pments
were then escorted to the Boston boat, on
board which they embarked to return home by
way of Boston. The Portland Encampments
then returned to their Hall and were dis
missed.
Tne wnole affair, from beginning to end, has
been carried out in the most successful and
happy manner, rejecting credit upon the
Committee who had the matter in charge
Our visitors have been free in their expressions
of admiration at such handsome reception,
and it will not soon be forgotten by them.
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CRISTADORO,S DYE.

Which in a twinkling .
Produces the Most Enchanting shades of
Csi0r, ett .
From Brown to Black, is consequently universal
favorite, the more especially asst
Improves the Quality of the Hqir,
And requires renewing less frequently than any
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feet lumber. ~.
Per brig Tubal Cain, for Montevideo- $50 feet
pine lumber, IA, i05 Il spruce $4,000 shingles.
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Railways SarsuParilIian ResOlvent is
the consumPtives' hope IL loosens the phlegm, re-
pairs the waste OF the body with new and healthy
material made from pure, rich blood, and stops de-
cay. Let it be tried. r
Buchu is not fit or safe remedy to take a gen.
Blue Pills, Qunine, Corrosive Sublmate, Mercury,
etc, and other direct exclusive properties. Per-
that have taken either OF these remedial agents
for length of timc aware of the serious tloub e
involved-the livr spleen and other glands suffer.
So with Buchu-its exclusive diuretic action the
kidneys will if used continuously, suspend the Sc
creing functions of other organs Buehu, as is well
known, is direct diuretic, and is chiefly employed
by medical men to secure increased action Of the
Kidneys n =. s+r..sr,,---s- ss-gF
But in most cases when thus employed its use af-
ter few doses is suspended and opiates administer
ed to modify its action, to compensate the kidneys
from the great strain they suffer from the direct in
fuence OF Buchu Now Buchu ndiscriminateiy
use in of diabetes, gravel brick dust deposits
urea uric lithic acid; and in granular degenera
ton OF the kidneys, catrrh OF the bladder, drorsy,
etc is like taking SALTS to check diarrllRa.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-28

6rop man caught in one act OF villsiny, with
cut waiting to see what will be the general
ienOr of his lite.
Judging MIR. Fisk by this rule, we should not
expect TO find him man whose tastes are 80
refined as to make bin tsstidious on nice
points Of personal oOndnct, or whose sense OF
light aud wrong is so keen as TO make him
pause in any project likely to promote his own
advantage, or whose feeling of what is due,
either to gentleman or to himself would
deter him from any action, however brutal or
degrading, that coarse, low nature might
prompt him TO psrpstrate We do not mean
TO say that be is not philanthropist that he
does not build churches, found semiuaries, or
do good deal of that kind of sanctimonous
work, though we have never heard that be
did. But We incline TO think that he has
little faith in such roudabout modes of
getting up in the world. Evidently he is
not one OF your slow and easy pilgrims, who
believe III earning what they get-who have,
or at least profess to have, some regard for
the decencies and decorums of life, aud who,
if they must or will do a coarse, low act, pre-
fer not to do it in a coarse, low manner, but
cloak il over with some of the shows of civility,
if nothing more. Mr.. Fisk, when he has
thing to do, does it.; when he wants money, he
gets it; when he wants to crafty q small per-
sonal spite, he does it--regardless of every
body's feelings and of everything but the
spite that prompts him. He probably enjoyed
intensely-that is, as intensely as such
nature can enjoy anything-the belief that he
had made Mr.. Bowles wretched by giving him
a coarse lodging for anight, and that he had
blighted the comfort of his life by making him
pass that night in jail.
But passion is always short.sighted Mr..
Fisk ideas of what a man must suffer from
passing a night in prison were derived, not
from experience, but from imagination; and
that is always colored more or less by peculi-
arities of personal character. Mr.. Fisk may
have very clear and correct idea of what he
would suffer in jail, what he would have to
think OF, what acts of manly heroism, sympa-
thy and kindness to remember, what schemes
of far-reaohing benefcence to mediate, aud
what splendid career of honorable we'll
doing to ponder for the future-or, on the other
hand, through what an unbroken series of
SELFISH reckless, INSCRIPTIONS acts of frau
dulent and disgraceful 'enterprise' he has
grown rich and useless for all good ends Of
living. But his thoughts in jail would not
necessarily be the thoughts of Mr.. Bowles. A
light thus spent might be much more endu-
rable for Mr.. B. than for Mr.. F.; and thus
Mr.. L, may not have achieved the noble
though somewhat coarse and brutal-revenge
which, in the recesses of a mind capacious OF
such things and the resources of corporate
pocket abundant enough to pay for them at
current rates-he had promised himself for
Christmas day.
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SPIRIT or THE PRESS.
n IIToRIAL OPINIONS OF THB LEADING JOURNALS
Upon CURRENT roPIcs--CoMPILED EVERY
DAY FOR TIKI EVENING TELEGRAPH.
Grants Policy.

From Tie ". Y. Herald
Apparently man can have policy and not
know it, The idea that the President elect is
a person without a policy seems merely to
have flowed from Misunderstanding in regard
To the use of words, and is part of the ditter-
ence that arises between the community and
a man who never heard a thing "called by
that name before" Grant has, in fact, very
positive ideas on great many subjects, and
as the world pretty well knows that ne Is
man who sticks to his ideas, we shall be aston
ished if these firmly held views do not in time
make very substantial fabric of policy more
puzzling than pleasing to Congress. He has,
Tor instance, rather close notions on national
expenditure and simple thoughts in regard to
economy. He believes that nation in debt,
as this nation is, and actually not meeting its
obligations already incurred, has no right to
80 on mourning new obligations, and we fancy
that the plain people will concur with him in
this. Here, then, is a point of policy of the
most extensive import. 1t is sound in mo-
rality and in finance, but we cannot hope that
the Congressional jobbers will accept it.
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ButIer and the Clergy,

From Brick Ponlroy's NJ y. Democrat
In 1859 Butler made q sp ech at Charles
town, Mass, in which he called up some very
ugly things for them TO look at there at home,
10 which he requested them to givesome share
of their attention, insteab Of directing 1t all to
exposed the pauper system Of Massachusetts,,
and charged that, according TO the statistics
furnished by the present State Legislature, as
a report of their own committee, 1t Is more
dangerous to- spend year in aMassachusett
almshouse than 1t would have been to have
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DODGERS AND WOSTENHOLMrS POCKET
~ KNIVES Pearl and stag Handles, Of bsauIlf1al
z0RH, and the celebrated LECOULTRE RAZOR
SCISSORS of the hnest quality.
kAzOrH Knives, Scissors, and Table Gallery 0rOunQ
and Poiiahed, At p. hADEIRA's. BE No g. FENIh
trest.belnw CheAnuk Sa4
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but poor parents. Was not this pound
committed to you? You have lived to
provide for your aged parents. And l
thank God you have done SO. l also
had poor parents. These hands minis
tered to their wants while they lived !;
and mary years after their death l paid
voluntarily my fathers debts. rejoice
that was enabled to do so. l had not
the consolation of doing what you have
done, that is to fix my parents on a good
farm while they lived. My parents,
though poor, had enough while they lived,
and near fifteen years after my father
died, l paid his debts. must, there
fore, as you have done, have improved
my pound. This is single instance for
self-examination. But my dear friend,
for whom did we do it? Was it for our
Master or for ourselves? Lord, he hath
ten pounds Let us think of this
Whether we agree or disagree with
Mr.. Robinson in his criticism, the facts
here revealed, and for the first time made
public, are honorable to the two friends !;
aod the reflections that will press upon
our minds are of the deepest interest.
For whom and for what do we labor and
toll and accumulate? SENEX.
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Christ's Hand.

It IS a strong hand. 1t balances all
worlds; steadies the swinging universe,
ordains the march of law and the sue
cession of events.
It is redeeming hand 1t only
wrought salvation, opened the gates OF
despair, wrenched out of their fastenings
the bars of the tomb, broke the sceptre
and destroyed the sting of death-frOm
earth to heaven threw up the highway
for the ransomed of the Lord.
1t is tender hand. 1t can crash; it
can dash in pieces mailed defences as
easily as shiver the pOtter's clay; can
cleave the mountains-aye, bow the very
heavens. But when did it ever break
the bruised reed? 1t was laid so gently
upon the brow of infancy, that the smil-
ing little one looked up into what did
not seem strangers eye and waited a
benediction.
1t is a 6OHntiful hand. 1t can spread
the table in the wilderness, and where
ever opened, satisfeth the desires of
every living thing. 1t sprinkles loving
benefits, and scatters tender mercies.
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A GOOD SERMoN.-The only true
praise Of sermon is some evil left, or
some good done, upon the hearing of it.
One such fruit brought forth were more
ample commendation than many mouth
fuls of good words spent, and copies
taken, and printing, and l wot not what.
And sure it is, on whom sermon works
Alright, it leaves him not leisure to talk
much, to use many words, but makes him
rather full of thought. And when all
comes to all, the deed done is it. And
it is no good sign in tree when all the
sap goes into the leaves, it is spent that
way; nor in an auditor, when all is ver-
bal that comes, and nothing else-no
reality at all.-Bishop Andrews.
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THE WORTH OF TIME.-To show us
the worth of time, God, most liberal of
all other things, is exceedingly frugal in
the dispensing of that; for he never gives
us two moments together, nor grants us
a second till he has withdrawn the first,
still keeping the third in his own hands,
so that we are in perfect uncertainty
whether we shall have it or not. The
true manner of preparing for the last
moment is, to spend all the others well,
and ever to expect that. We dote upon
this world as if it were never to have an
end, and We neglect the next, as if it
were never to have beginning.
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For THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
In Memoriam.
SUSAN MORTON HoGE.

SOSAN MOhION dOOE.
THE brief address delivered by the Rev. Dr.
T. V. Moore at the funeral of Mrs HOge, is
published under the persuasion that it will be
received by wide circle of readers as a cher
ished memorial of one whom they knew and
loved.
Were / to follow the spontaneous i'm
pulse of my heart on this occasion, l
would have much to say to the living,
much to say of the dead. For this is one
Of those cases that occur rarely in the
providence of God, when not one family
but many are mourners, and when the
pent-up feelings of whole community
seem to crave for some expression of
theirs in which they may find partial
relief. But l am precluded from such
an expression of them as the heart would
desire by the known wishes of her whose
removal has called forth this widespread
grief, for it was her request during her
last illness that her funeral services
should be simple and uhostentatious, and
that no formal panegyric discourse should
be uttered on the occasion. This request
We regard as sacred; and yet only con-
cur with those whose judgment ] prefer
to my own, in believing that the very
humility that caused this request would
not feel that its spirit was disregarded,
if We give vent to those struggling emo
tiOns, not by any tribute to man, but by
a devout and thankful acknowledgment
of the grace of God, as it was magni6ed
in her life and death.
If that Divine grace has enabled a
woman to come as young bride to a
church and a community, and so occupy
the delicate position of pastors wife
that after nearly quarter of century
that community can say, "she never
gave US cause for sorrow until she left US
for her home in heaven"
If it has enabled a naturally high
toned spirit so to put on the meekness
and geutleness of Christ as to seek out
the bruised reeds of human life that she
might tenderly bind them up and train
their crushed tendrils to twine around
the Cross; to bend over the smoking fax,
and By the breath of kindly sympathy
WOO it to a fame of love to Jesus, so that
the poor, the lonely, the neglected sought
her out or welcomed her search for them
by an irrepressible instinct that led them
to make her the depository of their tales
of sorrow, with the assurance that all
that human kindness could do for them
would be done by her;
If to manage her affairs so as to relieve
her husband of all worldly care, and so to
arrange her expenditures by cutting of
all needless Injuries and even comforts
especially from herself-as always to
have the means of meeting the calls of a
charity whose bountiful bestowals will
only be known when the " books shall
be opened;'
If grace enabled her to diffuse around
her so much of her own sweet and
sunny spirit, that not only was home
a brighter place by her presence when
all within it was bright, but yet more
wondrously so when that home became
a house of mourning, and when she
seemed almost to forget the agony o.
her own maternal bereavement in hel
anxiety to soothe the sorrow of others
so that the very gloom of outward care
seemed to vanish, and the earth to grow
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THE DEVIL is called the ruler of the
darkness of this world; his subjects are
all blind, else he could never rule them.
AS soon as their eyes are opened they
flee from his kingdom, and there is no
retaining them in subsection to him any
longer.
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Lines written 70 a beloved Irlend In ner lds'
sickness, who never murmured or complained /;
but ever manifested the utmost resignation to
the will of Heaven.
Thy work is done;
Thy sweet and gentle life is ebbing fast;
AT early dawn we fear it will not last
Till sinks the sun.
Yet thou art calm,
Composed and to thy Makers will resigned,
And in thy patience tor our grief We find
The sweetest balm.
III.
Thy faith is strong;
Death hath for thee no terror; thou can'st see
A world of spirits bright. that wait for thee,
And hear their song.
We cannot weep
Or grieve for thee; thy days of grief are Ger )
No longer would we wish from Canaan's shore
Thy soul to keep.
No, join the band
Of noble spirits, who have safely past
Beyond death Swelling food, andreachedat last
The happy land.
Calm they reeline
Beneaththe shade; hfe's long, hardconficts o er.
And their triumphant songs sing evermore
With JOY divine.
VII.
Sweet be thy rest;
'Twere vain, sad and last adeu to give,
For soon with thee we fondly hope TO live
Among the blest;
VIII
And there renew
The ties of love, which now with so much pain
We break, and thy lost friendship shall regain,
Where all is true.
TX.
When thou art dead,
Forgotten shall thy kindness never be;
Deep in our hearts shall dwell sweet thoughts Of
thee
Till life has fed.
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AN INPENITENT sinner has no more
right to sin than saint.
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FoR THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
GRADUALLY SINKING.

Lines written to beloved friend in her last
sickness, who never murmured or complained; /;
but ever manifested the utmost resignation to
the will of Heaven.
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Yet thou art calm,
Composed, and to thy Makers will resigned,
And in thy patience tor our grief We find
The sweetest balm.
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Thy work is done

Thy work is done;
Thy sweet and gentle life is ebbing fast;
At early dawn we fear it will not last
Till sinks the sun.
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Thy faith is strong;
Death hath for thee no terror; thou csn'st see
A world of spirits bright. that wait for thee,
And hear their song.
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We cannot weep
Or grieve for thee; thy days of grief are o'eri
No longer would we wish from Canaan's shore
Thy soul to keep.