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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS Is furnished
with Card certificate couptersigned by Stanley I.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
curn2l,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20

"Now, your Majesty" said the scientist who
had been commanded to conduct series Of
experiments before royalty. 'these two gases
VIII have the honor of combining before your
Majesty"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20
THE PRESS
FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 20.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
Cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
bat as guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve CON-
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20

Hello, what are you doing now?''
Editing a comic newspaper. Permanent
thing. Got to be witty for the rest Of my life,
Hal hal"
I'm other. words, you've had sentence of
death passed on you"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20

"BoLT and be damned to you," was what
the Butler men said at Worcester. The
straight Democrats did bolt, and damned
Butler.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20

WHEN the argus gets though with fond
ling Murch perhaps it will tell its readers
what it thinks Of Butler.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20

SPEAKING of Butler the Boston Herald
remarks that honors count as well as tricks
in politics.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20

"Yes, sir" said the exasperated gentleman,
II will go and find him. 1 will upbraid him
with his treachery, and then, looking him stern
ly in the eye, will kick the seat of his psuta-
looms out through the crown of his hat.'
Difficult, but not impossible, remembering
how Montgomery's bleeding warrior lay prone
on his breast and glared at the skies.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20
New York World.l
What the Alleged Wits Of Paris Find to
Saw,

so the D--girls have never had broth
er?"
Never. just the seven sisters of them
Like the nine Muses. How awfully Jolly"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20
THE MAINE STATE PRESS

is published every THURSDAY MORNING at S2.5o O
year, II paid in advance at $500 year.
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SPECIAL NOTICES, one third additional.
Under head OF "AMUsEMENTs" and "AUCTION
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or less, $1.50.
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PRESS (Which has large circulation in every part
OF the State for $100 per square for first nserfion
and 80 nts per square for each
Address all communications to
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20

A man who had long been in populous cities
pent, having occasion to visit the country, en-
countered flock of those birds widely known
in connection with tailors and apple sauce
"Well," said the citizen, having noticed the
peculiarly stupid way in which they gabbled
and stared at him, 81 don't wonder that they
called you geese!'
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20
THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS,
Published every day Sundays exceptedl by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING GO,

AT i0s EXCHANGE ST., PORTLAND.
TERMS: Eight Dollars a Year in advance. To
mail subscribers Seven Dollars Year if paid in sd-
vance.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20
VELVETS and VELVEHEENS F!

ONE CASE of COLORED VEL.
VETS, comprising all the new
| shades suitable for Trimming
| Dresses. Also a fine lime of
| BLACK VELVETS.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20

New and beautiful styles, both
i'm single and double widths.
We offer one lot of MATTE.
EASSE NOVELTIES i'm all the de.
sirable cOlOrs. As inches wide, for
$a.25 per yard. These goods
would be cheap at $500.
Cheap DRESS GOODS i'm great
variety.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26
A Wedding Mystery Solved.

.. AN American recently solved q mys-
terry which had confused and amazed a
wedding party in Rome. The bride
was the daughter of one of the most
noble Marquises of old or modern Rome,
and the groom was the scion of another
noble house. When the wedding con-
tract had been signed, the groom took
the hand of his young wife in his own
and kissed its fingers. She smiled at
this, and allowed her hand to rest
where he had placed it. But in mo-
ment, to the dismay of the company, a
voice was heard, as from her lips, say
ing: 4" Impertinent! how dare you touch
my hande Be of, fool" Still she
smiled as before, and her lover gazed
upon her face in dismav. Suddenly
she seemed to laugh. and it was dry
and ironical laugh that startled people
more than the words they had heard
before. "Has the girl gone madp'
some one asked. She tainted, and her
friends gathered closely around the
sofa on which she had fallen. At this
moment young American, described
as "of great learning, but generally
very taciturn and almost timid in man.
ner," offered to examine into the cause
of the strange occurrences, and APP
preached the sofa. Casting his eyes
on and around the sofa, and then about
the room, he proceeded to crawl along
the floor on his hands and knees until
he came to q large ottoman. Behind
this he found young servant who had
been dismissed from the house that
morning, and went away declaring
that she would be revenged. BY some
means she had found her way into the
parlor and concealed herself behind
the ottoman. Being q ventriloquist,
she was able there to speak in tone
OF voice which was naturally attributed
to the bride.-N T. tbssMe.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

think i'll of the saving that procures
them the utensils they desire, and
that otherwise they might not
have at all; and as for feeling
ones self to be small and mean in the
matter, it is, according to our way of
thinking, atrue nobility, because true
faithfulness to stewardship, to make
the most of everything. Poor Rich
ards maxim of taking scare of the
pennies, and the pounds will take care
of themselves applies nowhere much
better than it does to these very mat
tiers of the rag-bag, as the careful
housewife who saves bits for her
patchwork out of that wonderful recep-
tacle is well aware. Some people
there are who laugh at patchwork, and
talk OF the time wasted upon it, when,
in sooth, time is the only thing they
have to waste. It remains, for all
their laughter, that if in the odd mo-
ments when they would be doing moth
ing else they do not run the squares of
calico together, or let the children take
their first needle lessons on such ma
terial, when they make new "com-
fortables," wadding and tufting them
for the winter beds, if they have not
this great sheet of prepared patchwork,
they must buy the calico by the yard.
To be sure, it is only dollar or two
that it takes; but dollar or two here
and dollar or two there, soon amount
to several dollars, with which other
things can be had that one is going
without.
Every careful and economical house.
keeper, in short, maintains her rag
bags. her paper-bags, her patchwork
and her drawer for scraps. Into the
latter are rolled away all the pieces left
from the making Of various wearing
apparel, ready to be found and used
for mending and remaking; there will
be the bits to be braided into rugs, the
pieces of silk to make into fanciful or
geometrical designs, sewed or chain
stitched together; fresh coverings for
the worn. out upholstery of occasional
furniture, when one cannot afford to
buy handsomer; there, too, is the stout
remnant of cloth to make the pillow,
which, stuffed with finely-shredded pa
per curled on the scissors, and mixed
with few wooden rawlings, makes a de-
1iC1OuoAy COOl PlAAOW AOT Cuc SICK, WucTe
hair is too expensive, and one that can
be thrown away and replaced frequent
~, without fear of extravaganza. These
are the smallest of small economies,
very evidently, such as they are, and
there are scores of them; but few will
suggest many others, and whoever
practices them will find the trouble of
them but small and the comfort of
them great.-Harper' Bazaar.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26
Odds and Ends.

THERE is a world of waste in the
households of our civilization, much
of which is in trifles that seem almost
too tri1ing to mention, but yet which
cannot be too frequently brought to
notice. 1t is true that on these West
ern shores plenty has for long been so
close athand, and the habits of thought
following our system of Government
have given people such a sense of in
dependence and of right to enjoy, that
prodigality has been the rule rather
than parsimony, or indeed anything
that savored of parsimony, as economy
might be thought to do by those who
do not look into the sources of things.
There is as great difference between
economy and parsimony as there is be-
tween right and wrong, for the former
is the right using of money and ma
terial without waste, and with q regard
to the wants and needs and capabili-
ties of others, and the latter is selfish
boarding to selfish ends, sometimes
without regard to the needs of our
selves, and totally without regard to
the fact that our property is our own
only as charge, as an estate to adj
minister, since we hold it at the best
but for life, and when we go cannot
take it with us.
But there are many people who,
while economical in the main, and
with the heavier portion of domestic
matters, forget the part that the
smaller things can play-the smaller
things which, now that the great days
of plenty of the first half Of the CEN
fury are past, few families can afford
to overlook.
1t is in the very smallest of small
things that some of these righteous
economies can be practiced. Take,
for instance, the rag-bag, o usual ap-
pendage of every house; all those who
have one for white rags and another
for colored rags and third for WOOL
ems know the difference it makes in
their receipts from what the receiDts
would be were they all mixed together
in one common receptacle when the
ragman comes along, and they replen-
take the item of waste-paper. and the
same increase of revenue is noted-in-
finitesimal as it may be, yet telling in
the long-run-by those who allow the
thick and coarse brown papers 10 be
used for fires and other purposes, and
save the newspapers and all white
wrappings, even to the envelopes of
letters, for the same purchaser. And
even if it amounts to but one article of
tin-ware or of glass, the comfort and
convenience of that article may coun-
terbalance vastly more trouble than it
will ever take to effect the little saving
when once it has been carried into
practice and become system. There
need be no fear that servants will
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26
A Very Mean Han. Indeed.

some months ago an advertisement
was inserted in the Pioneer Press. from
which it appeared that a man (we'll
call him Smith), residing in q neigh
boring city, wanted wife, and invited
correspondence from ladies who could
put up with q secondhand husband.
for Smith claimed to be pretty well off.
his effects including a half-dozen chill.
dren. A number Of St. Paul females
wrote to Smith, and Smith personally
visited his fair correspondents, looked
them over one at time and finally
picked out blooming and childless
widow whose home is in West Wiscon-
sin, and marriage between them was
duly solemnized. This was only a
month or two ago, and now comes the
sequel to these foolish proceedings.
The bride, after brief trial, found
that Smith was entirely too mean a
man to get along with, and so she left
him, returning to St. Paul. Smith, it
seems, is parsimonious to an extreme
degree, and he has been in the habit of
putting his children and step-children
on half rations; in other words, he
gave the little Smiths half enough to
eat. Now, the new wife couldn't stand
that, and, finding that any attempt on
her part to increase the quantity of
food for the children invariably brought
down upon her and them the wrath of
old Smith, she adopted a little d.
plOmacy TO 0utwit the miserable skim
flint. The children, in fact, took their
half rations and consumed them in the
presence of the old man. and, as soon
as he was safely out of the house, the
new Mrs. Smith doubled the dose and
filled the children's stomachs. This
plan worked admirably for awhile,
but old Smith suddenly came back one
day to the house, and actually caught
the children in the act of eating q Sec
ond breakfast. Then he stormed and
raved, and became so violent and abu-
sive that Mrs. Smith ended the contro-
versy by packing her bandbox and re-
turning to her former home. This fell
low Smith, by the way, turns out to be
about the meanest man that has vet
been put on record. It transpires that
he has had three wives; his second
wife was a widow with several chill
dren. This wife had some real and
PoA0VA"A PAOPClCy WAACA udU ucVcr
been transferred to him, and when his
wife died there was likelihood that,
in the settlement of the estate, a por-
ton of it would be invested for the flu
ture benefit of the children. To obvi-
ate this calamity, what did Smith do?
Why, he put in bill for the mainte-
nance of the children and for medicine
and nurses required for his dead wife,
and thus got the property of the Or
phans into his own hands. And these
are the children that are now so badly
treated that their stepmother couldn't
stand it, and, after she found she would
be unable to protect them from the
brutal stepfather, she gave up the con-
test, "shook'' the advertising husband
and returned to single blessedness.
That's the story-and not the least in
teresting feature about it is the fact
that tits strictly true. Paul Pioneer
Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26
A Gull Story.

A STRANGE incident occurred on
board of the lightship off FRYING Pan
Shoals. During the prevalence Of the
severe storm of the 18th of September
last, after the darkness of night had set
in, rendered doubly gloomy and forbid
ding by the bowling tempest that thur
dered through the rigging, broke with
furious violence over the staunch ves-
sci and sent the salt spray in phospho-
resent clouds over the very mastheads,
one of the seamen was leaning his ell
bow upon the port rail of the ship,
watching the storm as it ragged in all
its grandeur and sublimity, when q
large black bird dashed through the
binding mist and lit upon the railing
near where he was standing. He took
the bird, which proved to be an ordi-
nary sea-gull, all wet and drabbled by
the storm, and warmed and dried it IN
his bosom, after which he placed it in
little bed improvised for the occasion,
after first feeding it, as if it had been a
little child. The next morning, the
storm having subsidized, our seaman
turned the oird loose, of course with
no expectation of ever seeing it again.
Very much to his surprise, however,
on the very next night, at about the
same hour of its previous visit. the gull
again put in its appearance, alighting
upon the rail of the ship as before,
when it was fed, caressed and cared for
as on the occasion of its first call, and
from that time up to November 9th,
noerly two months, when the latest in
formation was received from the ship,
the bird had continued its nightly WIS.,
its and had been regularly fed and con-
signed to its "little bed," where it
would remain until released the next
morning. This is no fancy sketch or
draft upon the imagination, but is an
"O'er true tale" from source entirely
reliable and trustworthy Wilmington
(Del.) Star.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

A vote was taken in the British
House OF Commons, on the 10th, on the reso-
luton censurinK the Government for its in
augrration of the Afghan War, resulting in its
rejection by vote Of IS to 2Ol. It was also
voted that the expenses Of the war be betrayed
from the Indian revenues.
The steamer Herman Ludwig left the
Port of New York, ON the 18th of October,
for Antwerp, with forty persons on board, and
no tidings have been received Of her since.
The date of her departure comedies with .
series Of very destructive gales along the At
lantic coast, and her owners believe she has
gone to the bottom. She was worth t12O 900,
and had . cargo on board valued of $780,
The State Oranges of Iowa and Ohio
met in annual Convention. on the 10th, the
former At DesMoines, and the latter Ut Colum-
bus. Forty-eight members were present in
the Iowa Convention. Reports were read In
the Ohio gathering showing the organization
in the State to be In healthy condition. The
Secretary reported az subordinate Changes in
working order, With membership Of about
10000. A motion to amend the constitution
of The National Grange, 90 - to reduce the
monthly dues from ten to I've cents, was de.
feated.
Another collision occurred . few
days ago 1t jackson, county seat OF Breath.
itt County. KY, in which four men were
killed and seven wounded.
A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 18th
says number of Russian officers belonging
to the Army OF the Caucasus had gone to
Tehcran to reorganize the Persian Army.
It was reported from Berlin. on the
18th, that Germany had proposed that En-
gland should assume protectorate over
Co0stantinople.
In the italian Parliament, on the
18th, the Deputies, by vote of 257 to 1856 70
jected the order Of The day, exprssstng con-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26
The total population of Queens

The total population of Queens
land, Australia, last year, was 2O3, O84,
of whom 1924, 1924 were males. Queens
land covers an area as large as Eu-
rope, less Russia, Germany, Austria
and Scandinavia. The immigration to
it has been mainly at the cost of its
Government. The present Governor
is brother to Lord Chancellor Cairns.
He resides at Brisbane, the capital,
and has salary of go, 900 . year, with
furnished house and allowances worth
about o., 500 more.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

termined to cling to Mr.. Homer, they
should be remarked by apriest. Father
ODonaghue was asked to perform the
service, and refused. On Monday morn
ing. in spite of the protestations of her
friends, the young lady departed with
the man she had married under such
extraordinary circumstances Indian
aD0lis Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26
A Hearty Eater.

On Wednesday evening wager was
laid between William Laduke, of Ver-
gennes, and Messrs. Forton 4 La Bonn
bord, rs follows: Laduke was to eat in
ten hours two pounds of pork-steak,
four large potatoes, 0ne-haf of q pie,
two slices of wheat bread, each one and
one-quarter inches thick, one-quarter
pound of butter, half bushel of apples,
and to drink two cups of tea. Atseven
o'clock on Thursday morning the gour-
mand began his task by eating five
apples. He then ate one pound of
pork-steak, two large potatoes, one
slice of bread, one-quarter of a pie,
one-eighth pound of butter, and drank
one cup of tea. The remainder of the
forenoon he spent in walking about and
eating apples, of which he had de-
voured twenty-three at twelve o'clock.
At noon he ate one pound of pork
steak, two large potatoes, one quarter
of pie, one slice of bread, ne-eighth
pound of butter, and drank two cups of
tea. He was then weighed, and found
to have gained seven and One-half
pounds. For the next three hours he
averaged about two apples per hour.
At $50 p. m. he ate the last apple and
won the bet with half an hour 10 spare.
His weight when he began was AS
pounds, and at the close 153 pounds,
showing gain of eight pounds in nine
and one-half hours. Seven and one
half pounds of this he acquired in the
first five hours, the last five hours add
ing only one-half pound to his weight.
The half-bushel of apples was cheap
ing'' measure, and numbered just
sixty-five apples. Laduke is twenty
six years old. five feet seven inches in
height, and has never experienced a
sick day in his life. He is q thin, spare
man, and has always worked out for
his living, usually among the farmers.
He experienced no unusual difficulty
from his square meal. and offered to
bet five dollars that he could eat an
other peck of apples the same evening.
-Hergenses (Tt.) Cor. N. r. Sun.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

In consequence of the increasing
number of graveyard dissertations,
the genius of the inventor has been in
cited to devise means for their defeat.
Among the most recent patents is one
for a coffin torpedo, which consists of
a canister containing powder. balls
and firing trigger. so arranged that,
on placing the torpedo within the
coffin, and finally closing the lid, should
any attempt be made to open the coffin
the torpedo will be instantly exploded,
a noise like thunder ensue, and deadly
balls will fly in all directions. Had the
remains of the late millionaire, Mr..
Stewart, been protected by means of
this invention. the neighborhood in that
part of the city where his body rested
would have been alarmed, while the
robbers themselves would doubtless
have suffered sudden death as the PEN
atty of their sacrilegious attempt
Scientific Anseriean.
-Mort0a0o "a latin for udeath.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

The East Sssser NesOs (England)
says that one of the shortest wills ever
known has just been proved in tho
Lewes Probate Court. It contains
only nine words, and is to the follow
ing effect: MRS. - is to have all
when I di0ss
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26
A Romance OF the Minstrel Stage.

AROMANCE of several years. duration
reached realistic chapter in this city
last week. While Emerson 8 Minstrels
were here it was observed by some of
the people who were lurking around
the doors of the Opera House, that
Homer, Treasurer of the company. who
acted in the capacity of ticket-agent
after the doors were opened, was con-
siderably disturbed, as gentleman es-
corting two ladies passed into the audi
t0rium. Mr.. Homer kept the party in
sight until they were comfortably seat
ed. Then he found y messenger and
dispatched note to one of the ladies.
The note seemed to distract her atten-
ton from the entertainment, but she
did not explain its contents to her COM
panions. There had been several pre-
ceding chapters of this romance, in
which the course of true love had been
anything but smooth. The heroine
was Miss Amelia Norris, of Cincinnati,
and more than two years ago she met
and loved Homer. Her father, who is
wealthy, objected. She was entreated
to give up Mr.. Homer, but was obdu-
rate. She was sent to Paris, and for
two years neither saw nor heard of her
lover. She came to this city to visit
the family of her uncle, Mr.. Morris,
and fate, which had been preparing the
web of romance, sent her to the Opera
House, where she was brought into
communication with Mr.. Homer. The
note he sent her requested an interview
the next day. she complied, and was
persuaded to 60 to . Justice of the
Peace and be married. She then went
back to her uncle's and told what she
had done. There was q scene. Her
father was apprised Of the affair, and
he sent her word that if she would not
live with her husband, but would come
to him, he would procure her q divorce.
She refused to do 80. Some of her
Catholic friends-Miss Norris herself is
a Cnthd -insistad that II che vvaa de.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

AN "auction sale'' was originally
written "hawk-shun sale" That was
. good MANY years ago, however, when
people were Vicked and used to cheat.
-Boston Transcript.