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The Portland daily press., 1879-03-25

HE Shoe and Leather Reporter thinks
that one of the most ill-advsed, short-siehted
and fatuous performances of Congress was
the repeal of the bankrupt law, aud it adds:
The member of the next Congress who shall
Introduce at an early period, and urge the
passage. OF uniform law providing for the
just accounting of every man who fails. to
those whom he is indebted 70, and securing
to him release when he has surrendered ali
MS property, without reservation OF conceal
ment--the member, we repeat, who will en-
deavor to accomplish the enactment of such
law as that will deserve the highest need
OF praise. 1t is the one thing needed, above
all Others, to give stability and security TO
the calling of merchant. In fact, until we
have it, we are practically, without any safe
guard whatever against spoliation by dis
honest debtors who are weak enough and
base enough to barter whatever claims they
may have to the respect of their fellow ci,i.
zens for the gain they hope to realize by
deliberate failure and knavish compromise.
The vcissitudes incident to the changes of
markets, to the rise and fall of prices are
OF course, inseparable from the prosecution
OF business. But the reverses that come ot
the betrayas of trust make their approaches
stealthily and without warning. They are
disguised beneath hypocritical pre- etensions
and false statements. They are brought
about by the practice of bald msrepresenta-
tions, which carry with them all the guilt of
perjury without involving its penalties. Law
in its best estate, affords very inadequate re-
dress for human grievances, but ii its func-
tions are to be suspended at the very point
where it may be turned to use in punishins
rascality, the mercantile public will begin to
inquire whether the machinery of govern.
ment is not altogether too costly and cum
brous in comparison with the services the
State renders to the people who maintain it,
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-25
PLEASANT information from Washington.
Tho houS uara NOT mista ban.

PLEASANT information from Washington.
The boys were not mistaken:
The lobbies and approaches 10 the Senate
chamber have been so crowded with clamer-
Gus office-seekers during the past three cays
that locomotion in that part of the Senate
wing has been rendered almost impossible.
To-day there were no less than one hundred
boys, all Democrats of course, in the expect
ant throng, applying for pageships, and they
appeared to be as persistent in pressing their
claims as the Older office-seekers. MANY of
the youngsters dwell with great emphasis
upon their relationship to ex-Conederate
soldiers who died for the lost cause, and
seemed to regard the circumstance as likely
to exert potential influence upon the ap-
pointing power.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-25
THE PRESS
TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH g5.

We 90 not read anonymous letters and commuui
cstions The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve coua-
municatiors that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-25

EVERY regulsr attache Of the PRESS IS furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent eur
1urual,
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-25

A boarding house at Suncoos, N H., was
burned yesterday morning, and John Donovan,
aged So years, was burned to death.
1t is stated that movement is projected for
the abolition of the executive sessions Of the
United States Senate.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-25

A ROLAND should be given for an Oliver.
But she wanted $4,000.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-25

ALEXANDER Fl. STEPHENS wants Congress
to remain in perpetual session. Having fail
ed to overthrow the Government by force he
resorts to intrigue.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-25

We have no need of the Supervisor laws?
In the city of Rondout there seems to be
need of some law to secure freedom of elec-
tions,
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-25

ANOTHER disaster has beiallen the Amerl-
can legs. A blasted Englishman has won
running match, badly beating two or three
Yankees. It's no use for the eagle to walk
against the lion. His proper sphere is in the
air,
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-25
Do You Ask Whv
PAaMER'S STORE

rs so Generously PatrOnized
st-CuSlOmerS are SURE TO find
such boots as they want, i'm quaIi-
ty, price and fif.
I'd No other store in this city re.
ceives BMFts Boots direct from
Mr. Burt.
Sd-NO other store ATTEMPTS
10 keep "A faii line of frs t.cTasS
stock and WORK.
4t3a No other store has so excel.
enf an assortment of low and me-
daum priced boots for Men, WOm-
EN- and Children.
an proof of these facts please call
at 23O MIDDLE STREET and be
convinced.
RE. e.. PALMER.
p,bE
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-25
The Proposed Compromise

If the Union was worth Gebtinx far IL ;s
worth paying for.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-25

THE MAINE STATE PRESS
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year, If paid in advance at $500 year.
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length of column, constitutes a square"
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SPECIAL NOTICES, one third additional.
Under head OF "AMUsEMENTs" and "AUCTIoN
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Of the Sta;e for 81 90 per square or first insertion,
and so ce ts square for each subsequent insertion.
Address all communications to
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The Portland daily press., 1879-03-25

OF course the room included variety Of kpick-
knacks which make English drawing-rooms
beautiful and bome-like, but these items may
give an idea of the money value of petty ''sr-
tistic' upholstery in England.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-25
THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS,
Published every day esandaYa excepted) by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co,

AT 109 EXCHANGE ST., PORTLAND.
TERMS: Eight Dollars Yea. To nail subscribers
Seven Dollars Year IL paid in advance.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-21
Hindu Care Of Life,

In the early dawn next morning we
drove to kaira,a place of Il, 600 inhabit-
ants, along fine road with sheltering
trees. The town stands on the high
bank of river. From the top of the
Collectors house there is an extensive
view over rich, wcll-timbercd country.
There are many monkeys, some very
large, and though they injure the crops,
no one mOlests them. This care of life
in regard to the lower creation is prin-
ciple of Hindu religion more strictly OBJ
served than that of care of their fellow
creatures outside the circle of
their own family connections.
Within that circle they are won
derfully kind. Hindus of high caste
never take life. Some are strict vegeta
riafs, and in order to preserve life will
frighten away fish from parts of a river
where they have reason to expect En-
glish officers to come in quest of them.
Even the much-abused mOney-lender re-
fuses all advances to fishermen. On one
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-21
How to Plant Trees.

1t is an established fact, says w. T.
Kinkman, of Marche, Ark, in the Spirit
Of arkansas, that in the long catalogue of
American varieties of apples, pears and
orchard fruits, but comparatively few
are adapted to our soil and climate. 1t
is also true that in a strictly judicious
selection OF varieties as to adaptability,
there is no agricultural pursuit more
profitable than fruit growing in Arkan-
sas. But Notwithstanding these facts,
our country is annually flooded with
worthless trees, plants etc., from
abroad, and thousands of dollars are
thus worse than thrown away, for the
first cost is quite small item compared
with the expense of culture, encum-
brance of the ground and disappointed
hopes, and the planter usually gives up
the enterprise and says: "This is no
fruit country nohow.'' This evil is due,
i'll the first place, to the lack of proper
information among the tree planters,
generally, who do not read the hOrticul-
tural journals, or make proper inyesti-
CATION in regard to the needed varieties,
and who credit the glowing representa-
tons made by irresponsible tree ped
oilers, and in the second place by the
questionable determination of tree deal
ers to make money out of nursery stock.
There is class of men known as
tree Dealers" who usually grow no
stock ut all, but buy it where they can
whatever comes handy and label to cor
respond with orders. Those dealers
employ statesmen whom they furnish
with snowy samples, put up in alcohol,
and sent down here and elsewhere dis
tant from headquarters, where the real
character of the firm is not known;
and, of course, are required to
make some money, regardless of moral
scruples. For illustration, and in
compliance with request made
by many citizens, l will describe
the means resorted to by =
man representing firm of Troy, Ohio.
He came among us in early summer
with his show of prepared samples. He
informed the people of the adaptability
Of Russian apples to our locality, which
apple he made 4 specially. Utah IIy-
Bird was his specially in cherries, which
he sold rs choice edible fruit. He had
pears, also, which would not blight nor
be attacked by the bOrer; "MOnarch of
the West" Strawberries, which stand up
like bushes and whose fruit never rests
on the ground like other varieties do.
OF course it is known by well informed
fruit men that Russian apples, as y
rule, are worthless, ut the South, and
that the Utah Hybrid is any thing else
than a palatable cherry. and all who
have seen "MOnarch of the West"
strawberry, know its tendency to rest on
the ground. But the large majority of
farmers are not informed in these mat
tiers, and being honest themselves, do
not suspicion the character of these
vendors. would suggest to those III
tending to grow fruits, to use some eX-
ertiOn in ascertaining the adapted vari-
cites, procure the catalogues of your
home nurseries and benefit by the in
vestigation and experience of others.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-21
A Thrilling Mine Adventure.

SCRANTON, Pa, Nov. 2.-If it were
possible to turn gray of terror, the hair
of Miss FlOyd-JOnes of New York should
be Us white rs snow, in consequence of
an awful adventure which she passed
through at the Briggs Colliery of the
Lackawanna Coal and Iron Company
in this city. She is visiting the family
of w. w. Scranton, general manager
of the iron company, and expressed Il
desire to visit the mine for the purpose
of witnessing the interesting and peril
Gus process of mining and preparing
anthracite for use. Accordingly MIR.
Scranton, acting as her escort, took
along Mine Superintendent Reese G..
Brooks as an extra precalltiOn against
venturing into danger. After inspect
ing the mine and seeing the men at
work, the trio, guided by their flicker
ing lamps, returned along the subter-
rancan halls to the foot of the shaft, for
the purpose of making the ascension.
Superintendent Brooks signaled to the
engineer overhead, Albert Roskelly, and
told him the party wanted to be hOisted
directly to the tower of the breaker,
which rises $50 feet from the mouth of
the shaft, and is $50 feet from the bot
tom, where they were standing at the
time. The object of ascending to the
tower was to make an examination Of
the screen rooms, rollers, and other de-
partments where the work of breaking
and cleaning cOal,waS going on. The
engineer answered down through the
tube, "All right" and the trio, taking
their places on the platform of the
carriage, were hoistcd swiftly up out
of the mine into the shaft of the tower.
Upon the carriage approaching the
sheave-wheel at the top, Engineer Ros-
kelly lost control of his engine, and the
party was hurled agrinst the heavy tim
bers of the roof, swapping the wire
hoisting-rope asunder, with the visitors,
over an abyss $50 feet deep. 1t was a
moment of Il terrible fear. They ex-
pected to be dashed to the bottom.
They felt the carriage slip sharply down
few inches; then came a sudden jolt,
a halt, and they were standing still. The
safety catches, which are generally more
ornamental than useful, sprang to their
places and held the carriage there. Even
then the situation was painfully perilous.
The slightest movement might cause
the catches to slip again, and every body
seemed afraid to breathe. The position
in which the halt was made was not
within easy access of any landing, and
the party was forced TO remain there
until the wOrkmen came with ladders TO
their relief. This took but very few
minutes, yet it seemed an eternity, and
it was with feelings of deep and heart
felt thanks that they touched firm
landing once more. The only bodily
injuries inflicted by the shock were a
slight cut which Miss Jones sustained on
the side of the head when the rope
broke, letting bolt descend from the
top of the carriage where it was attached,
and the bruising of her shoulder by con-
tact with the post. They are in no way
/! serious.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-21


occasion came upon an extensive in
closed park with shelter sheds, MAIN
tanned by native banker, into which
horses no longer fit for use were charita-
bly, received and fed, that they might
wear out their lives in quietness. And
yet female infanticide is undoubtedly too
common, 81 females to 100 males being
not an unusual proportion in the pOpu-
latiOn. A native Judge explained this
to me by the great desire among the
lower class to intermarry with the high
err, a lower man being ready to pay a
needy man of the higher order large
sum of money to induce the son of the
higher rank TO marry his daughter But
when the lower man has no money, as is
too often the case, the female infant is
apt to be neglected and allowed to die.
Tile Nineteenth Century.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-21
Advice to 4 Whistler.

SOmeStimeS, my son, you will want to
whistle. Do not entirely repress this
desire to aspirate your feelings in sibbi-
liant strains of wheeZy music; merely
modulate and regulate it. Go off into
the woods five or six miles from any
habitation, if the desire comes upon you
during business hours, and whistle there
until the birds make you ashamed of
your poor accomplishment. DO not
yield to the temptation too readily, lest
you become addicted TO the habit and
become slave to it, and 90 whistling
around even as q man who has lost u
dog. There are men, my son, who can
whistle unsteady; once in awhile you
find men whose whistle is pleasant to
the ear and soothing to the soul, but You
only find one of these men every three
or four thousand years, and they die
young, son; they die very young. You
will observe that the best whistler is he
who whistles least, and practices in soli-
tude. The poor whistler, who flats on
the high notes and gasps on the lower
ones, and wheeZes in the middle regis
ter, is the man who whistles at all
times and in all places. Whistle
all you will in solitary places,
son, if it pleases you, whistle in
the night rs you 90 home, if you will,
for 4 CHEEKY whistle in the dark is
pleasant sound unto the listening sOulOf
the belated passenger, but when you
come into the assemblages and the bust
ness haunts of men, unpucker your mu-
steal lips and shut up Your whistle in
your heart. And if ever the temptation
comes to You to whistle against the edge
of q card, crush it out, of the effort kills
you. Whistling is not q lofty nor yet a
useful, although it is a universal, ac-
complishment. Though you practice y
hundred years, and though you whistle
never so whistley, my son, yet the COM
monest switch-engine that ever scared \
human being deaf, can beat you at it.
The great and good were never great
whistlers, son. George Washington
never sat in friends Office, with his
feet on the window sill, whistling
Grandfather's Clock" against the edge
of card. Strive to emulate George
Washington, and although you may new
er be first in war, first in peace, and first
in the hearts of your cOuntrymen, yet
fame will not forget you If they can
write upon your tombstone that you
never whistled your countrymen into
commissions of Incorporate but fruitless
profanity.-Burdette, tn the Hasckeye.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-21

-Ayoung school-mistress who pecped
has lost her certificate, and the Supreme
Court OF Iowa will give her nc redress.
She had applied for a certificate, and
during the examination was caught
glancing over the shoulder of another
applicant and getting ans wers to ques-
tions propounded in arithmetic. The
Superintendent refused to issue the GER
tificate, and the young lady brought suit
in the Circuit Court to compel him to do
SO. She carried her point in the lower
court, but the decision has been reversed
by the Supreme Court.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-21
THE lola REGISTER.
SUPPLEMENT.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

-Auerbach is writing his memoirs.
Bronson Howard, the American
playwright, who is now i'm London, re
ceives $1,000 year for the use of hi.
play "Truth in the English provinces
George Augustus Sala, the wei
known writer, is about to start for foul
months tour in America, for the benefit
of his health.
-" Ouida's'' name is Rosa de l.
Rama, and she is the daughter of Z
Frenchman. She lives i'm a lovely villa
about two miles from Florence, where
she is surrounded by books, pictures,
and what she prizes more than both OF
these, dogs. Every novel she writes
finds a ready market at $1,000.
According to the Vienna NeUc Freie
Presse, Bret Harte is not greatly de-
lighted with his Crefeld consulate. In
fact, he likes Crefeld so little that he has
moved his residence TO Dusseldorf, and
goes to and from his business office by
rail. Mr.. Harte, says the same paper,
has produced but one literary work since
he arrived in Prlssia-an essay on the
superior qualities of the Dusseldorf
servant-girls, which has set all the Ger
man newspapers talking ahcat: Kim.
Jacob Abbott, whose death was IN
nOunced recently, was born at Halo
well, Me-, Nov. IA, 1903; graduated ut
BOwdoin College, and studied theology
at AndOver; for years was tutor and
Professor at Amherst College; Travelled
extensively in foreign lands; wrote the
Young Christian Series," the "Rolla
Books" the Franconia Stories," etc.
His brother, John S. c.. Abbott, is the
author of the "History of Napoleon
Harper's Magazine. The titles of his
works exceed 200 i'm number, including
the historical series, to which his broth
er contributed, and q series of school
books.
"A writer i'm one of the society"
papers of London has been down to
MIR. TennysOn's country home, and
says, among other things, that the room
in which the poet writes is one which
has more of repOse than is common in
4 brand-new house. He sits well fenced
in by a number of screens, ut a writing
table facing the window; clay pipes to
any number cumbcr his papers, and
general disarray would gain ground
everywhere but for the lilial good offices
of his eldest son, Hallam, who makes
him the most faithful and affectionatc of
secretaries, copying his manuscripts,
writing his letters, acting rs librarian to
his books, and knowing all his poems
by heart. The poets life is contained
in but 4 small space. He has never
cared for travelling.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-21
AT Pomeroy, O.. VIM. Tucker a,ed

AT Pomeroy, o., VIM. Tucker a'ed
the Board of Education and recovered
$50 damages for depriyins his daughter
of the privileges of the public schools.
The Board had decided that all pupils
should study drawing. Tucker notified
the teacher that his daughter must not
study that branch, and the Board ex-
PEELED her in consequence. If this de-
cis;on stands, the studies arranged by
the Board will not be compulsory upon
the pupils.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-21

A good composition for rendering
boots proof against snow and wet, can
be made of one part mutton tallOw and
two parts beeswax, melted together. 1t
should be applied to the leather at night,
and then wipe off the boots with bit OF
colored flannel the next morning Oh
course it will be more difficult to make
boots thus treated take a good polish,
but after few times they will be as sus-
ceptible of brilliant polish as ever.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-21

Cranberry Sauce: Look over and
wash quart of berries; put on to cook
with a coffeecupful of water. Stew
slowly, stirring often, for an hour or
even longer. Take from the fife, sweet
en- literally with white su gar, put
through fine colander and IL form in
o wet mold.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-21

er to the recent French fair i'm gowns OF
plain pink cambria, with sashes Of GRIM
son harmOnizing with the pink.
Two prizes have been offered by
the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng
land for new varieties of wheat, COM
bining the largest yield of grain and
straw per acre, with smooth and thin
husks, full and white kernels, high
specific gravity in the seed, and with
bright, firm, and stiff straw.
The Marquis of Headfort, who, with
his agent, has lately been threatened,
derives his Irish estates from an ancestor
who assisted the famous Sir William
Petty (ancestor of the Marquis of Lans-
DOWN in the survey of Ireland and,
like Sir William, made ga deuced good
thing of it - on his own account. He
and his father have always been resident,
and maintained a very handsome hospi-
tally. Lord Headfort first married the
only child of a London Alderman. The
lady had fortune of about $4,000, 900,
but her father, conceiving some distrust
of her husband, settled it all on her,
with remainder to her son, SO that Lord
Headfort was, before he succeeded his
father, actually a pensiOner of his son,
Lord Beehive. The latter has an i'm
mcnse property in WestmOreland, be-
qneathed by his grandfather, and some
EGO, 600 n year, with wife quite COM
petent to spend it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-21

TO Shrink Flannel: Put the new
flannel into clean cold water, and keep
it for a fortnight, changing the water
six or seven times, then wash well in
warm water and soap to get rid OF the
oily matter. The flannel will neither
oct hard nor shrink after that.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-21

AN article is going the rounds treat
inc on the best method of putting away
potatoes. A family of about eight, in
GLIDING three boys and three girls, can
put away potatoes about as successfully
AZ is necessary.