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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-11
Old Letters.


Never burn kindly written letters; it is so
pleasant to read them over when the ink is
brown, the paper yellow with age, and the
gentle hand that traced the friendly words
are folded over the hearts that prompted
them under the green sod. Above all, never
burn love-letters. To read them in after
years is like resurrection of youth. The
elderly spins ter finds in the imprisoned offer
she foolishly rejected, 20 years ago, fount-
ain of rejuvenescence. CHANGING over it she
realizes that she was a belle and q beauty,
and beholds her former life in a mirror
much more congenisl to her tastes than the
one that confronts her in her dressing. room.
The widow, instead, derives q most sweet
and solemn consolation from letters of the
beloved one who mas journeyed before her to
the far-off laRSrfrom which there comes no
message, and where she hopes, one day, TO
Join him.
No photographs can 20 wildly recall 70
the memory of the mother the tenderness
and devotion of the children who have left
at the call of Heaven, as the epistolsry out
pourings of that love. The letter of true
son or daughter to true mother is some
thing better than an image of the features;
it is reflex of the writer's soul. Keep al
loving letters. Burn only the harsh ones,
and, in burning them, forgive and forget
them
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-11

Man that is married to q woman is of many
days and full of trouble. In the morning he
draweth his salary, and in the evening behold
it is all gone. 1t is as a tale that is told-it
vanisheth and no one knoweth whittier Il
goeth. He riseth UP clothed in the chilly
GARMENTS of the night and seeketh the somno-
lent paregoric wherewith to sooth the colicky
bowels Of his infant posterity. He becometh
as the horse or the OK, and draweth the hariot
of his offspring. He spendeth his shekels in
the purchase Of fine linen to cover the bosom
of his family, yet himself Is seen in the gates
of the city with but one suspender. Yea, he
Is altogether wretched.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-11
A IA N B. DALE.

A turned down leaf, abb must there Be
A tnrped-dowo leaf for you aud me-
A leaf turned down on the page Of life,
Traced DER With tears and inward strih,
Folded and creased and laid aside
Within the depths Of this volume vidst
A .urned-dow leaf Yes, leaves, and more;
Full many a page IL thus traced DER
In every life, could we only look
With stealthy glance through this curious book;
safe hidden they that none may see
The furrowed lines Of misery.
A leaf turned down where stains and blots
Are strswn with dead forget-me-nots-
Turned down and sealed where grave was made,
And Hopes crushed flowers in sorrsv laid;
Folded and crsased-then pass IL BY
With Quivering lip and fearful eye.
4 leaf turned down Ger vanished years.
Ger youthful dreams q parting tears,
Where severed hearts in anguish deep
Yesrned for tbs last eternal sleep.
Folded and cressed--'tis a sacred page,
Though worn and dimmed with stains Of sge.
A leaf turned down where throbs Of paiu
Aud throngiug memories crowd the BRAIN
Here fancy paints face within,
Aud, whispering, echoes might have been"-
Folded and creased, and laid above,
The pleading eyes OF tender love.
These turned-do~n leaves, he who shall scan
Their every page Views erring man
With plying eye aud marks the place
Wherein was felt the need Of grace;
He'll cleanse the weary earth-worn soul
OF Elm. aud, GOd-like, rend the scroll.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-11

were severely punished. In 1874, two cham
berIains, Dsshkof and Buturlin, On suddenly
turning corner in one Of the interior courts
of the palace, met the carriage of The Tssritss
Natslia. who was going to prayers at a con-
vent. Their colleagues succeeded in getting
out Of the way. Deshkof and Buturlin we're
arrested, examined, and deprived of their
Offices, but as an encounter was proved TO be
purely fortuitous and unavoidable, they were
in few days restored to their rank. And
yet, this was during the reign of Alexis, who
was far less strict than his predecessors.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-11
Death.

1t is the thought of death that is terrible,
not death. Death is gentle, peaceful, pain
less; instead of bringing suffering it brings
an end of suffering. 1t is misery's cure.
Where death is, agony is not. The processes
of death are all friendly. The near aspect
of death is gracious. There is a picture
somewhere of a fearful face, livid and CHASTITY,
which the beholder gazes on with horror,
and would turn away from but for the
hideous fascination that not only rivets his
attention, but draws him closer TO it. On
approaching the picture the hideousness dis
appears, and when directly confronted it is
no longer seen; the face is that of an angel.
Ii is picture of death, and the object of the
artist was to impress the idea that terror OF
death was an apprehension. Theodore
Parker, whose observation of death was very
large, has said he never had seen a person
of any belief, condition or experience. un-
willing to die when the time came. Death
is an ordinance of nature, is directed by bene-
heent ends. What must be is made vel
come.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-11
Yes, How Pleasant

"How pleasant life would be if it had no
shadows said she, as her bright eyes looked
into his face so sympathetically.
eyes, it would, and if the gas should be
turned entirely of there would be no shsd-
ows here"
"And it would be pleasant, too, wouldn't
it7" as she toyed with her shapely fingers
around the argand till an impenetrable gloom
settled over the room and the Sunday nights
counting was fairly under way.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-11

see thy face no longer
In visions OF the night;
Too far away is that last day
That lent thee TO my sight.
But though the waves no longer
Reflect their absent queen,
Do tides forgeti D love, long set,
/ follow thee unseen!
bear thy tones no longer
Amid the voices round;
Too long unsmote by that sweet note,
My ear forgets the sound.
But though the she'll ne longer
Can hear the oceans roar,
IL echoes still-so thy words I'll
Ny heart for even more.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-11

A TURNED-DOwN LEAF IN EVERY
LIFE.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21
THE UNLEARNED PROFESSIONS.

1t may be said that the pursuit of wealth
needs no incentive, it will always have its vo-
taries, but yet may often be an utterly ignoble
calling. Too true may be this answer, and for
that very reason the more should the real
function of the capitalist be defined, the pub
lie necessity for the accumulation of wealth be
mastered, and the profession of manufacturer
and merchant be provided for in our method
equal rank, and equal usefulness with the pro-
fesslon of the minister, the lawyer, the doctor,
OR the scientist.
1t is very true that these pursuits may be ig-
nobly followed, but not more so than many
others. The man who spends his life in the
pursuit of gain for its own sake, irrespective OF
the service that he renders, and even ignorant
of it, yet saves substance that must be used in
order to give it value to him, and in its use
others are aided who might else have suffered
but the student who passes his life in the mere
pursuit of knowledge for its own sake only,
making no offort to spend his work for the
good of humanity, leaves naught behind, and
has been supported by others, rendering no
service in return; the yet more selfish person
whose sole care is to look after his own saliva.
tion in a future life may so wholly ignore his
right service in this one as to become a useless
member of society, less righteous force, than
another, whose hasty impulses make him Otter
a sinner, but whose great, unselfsh heart
goodwill to his fellow-men, and kindly words
and deeds more than atone for his errors.
The capitalist who applies inventions and
saves men from n0XlOuS or arduOuS drudgery
is the true labor reformer. Edward Atkinson
in Atlantic.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21

The Commission of the Universal Exhibition
of 1878 at Paris has just ordered the striking of
$500 commemorative medals, to be distributed
among the members of the foreign commits
sions, the iuries, and the exhibitors who did
not compete for prizes. The medals are to be
of bronze, and will involve an outlay of $780,
900. A similar medal is to be struck for jour
naliSts, foreign as well as French, who were
provided with season tickets. There still re-
main unclaimed by the contributors who are
entitled to them seven gold medals, 101 silver
medals, 526 bronze medals and 2510 honorable
mention.
Samuel Plimsoll, the famous Liberal men,
Der of Parliament, has resigned his seat for
Derby in favor of Sir William Harcourt, OF
Mr.. Gladstone's cabinet, who has been twice
defeated in attempts at reelection. AT a meet
ing of Mr.. Plimsolls constituents his resigna-
ton was reluctantly accepted land Mr.. Harcourt
invited to become their candidate. Mr.. Plim-
soil assured his constituents that Mr.. Har-
court would further his shipping reforms.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21
MAGAZINE Notices,

The June Atlantic continues Mr.. Howells's
Undiscovered Country and Mr.. Aldrich's Still
water Tragedy, which are easily among the
best serial stories now appearing in any maga-
zine in the English language. The articles of
political interest include letter from An Old
War Horse to Young Politician, and care
full paper on The Political Attitude of the
South. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, writes
forcibly Of The Unlearned Professions, which
include merchants, manufacturers, railway
owners, and other wielders of the capital and
material forces of the community. DIR. Angel
contributes another interesting series of Rec
ords of W. NJ. Hunt. Prof Shaler, of Hsr-
ward University, discusses the Future of Prec-
ious Metal Mining in the United States. Mark
Twain reports an amusing Telephone Conver-
sation, such as few but Mark Twain would be
fortunate enough to hear. Another engaging
chapter of "reminiscences of the jackson Ad-
ministration is given. Richard Grant White
contributes valuable criticism apropos OF
Furness's King Lear. Other new works are
reviewed, poems are given from Mr.. Longfel-
low, Miss G. F. Bates, Edgar Fawcett, and
others; and the Contributors Club, with an ap-
petizing variety Of good things, concludes a
thoroughly good number of this magazine. II
bears the imprint of Houghton, Mif]in & Co..
successors to Houghton, Osgood & Co.
The Numbers ef the Living Age for the
weeks ending May 18th and 22d, respectively
contain the following articles: The History Of
Rent in England, Contemporary Review; The
Irish Small Farms, Fortnightly Religion
Achaian and Semitic, by Rt. Hon. w. E. Glad
stone, Nineteenth Century; The Suppression
of the Templars in England, Church Quarter.
ly Review; Illusions of Memory, Cornhill
Notes on Infnity, by Bichard A. Proctor, and
the Dog and its Folklore, Gentleman's Maga
zine; Eleanour: tale of Non-Performers
Blackwood; The Civil Code of the Jews, Pal
Mall; Mr.. Brudenell Carter on Short Sight
Spectator; A Russian Ice-house, Chamber:
Journal; with instalments of Adam and Eve
He that Will NotWhen He May, and Verona
Fontaine's Rebellion, and the usual amount O.
poetry.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21

THE Rochester, New York, Democrat
and Chronicle says: The contest at present
seems to be between Mr.. Blaine and Gen.
Grant, with the chances largely in favor Of
Mr.. Blaine. His unquestioned Republican
ism, his dash and magnetism, and the wide
spread conviction that he should have been
nominated four years ago, make him the
favorite candidate of the Republican hosts; /;
and were Republican States alone to decide
the issue, his nomination would already be
placed beyond any contingency of failure.
His nomination would assure bold and
brilliant campaign, and the Republican
masses would follow his banner to victory
with an enthusiasm unparalleled in recent
political campaigns.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21
The Fisheries.

The report of the Secretary of State on
the Fortune Bay outrage is vigorous and de-
termined in tone. 1t discusses the question
with the utmost fairness, and clearly sets
forth the nature of the injustice done to our
fishermen and the violation of treaty rights
by the colonial authorities. The measure
recommended, that of reimposing the duties
on Canadian fish and fish-oil, is the only
remedy we have if Great Britain refuses to
do us justice in the matter.
The facts in the Fortune Bay affair are
briefly these: On the sixth of January,
1868, the crews of several American fishing
vessels while employed in catching herring
on the coast of Newfoundland-a right rec
ognized by the treaty of Washington-were
attacked by a mob which destroyed their
nets and drove them away with violence.
remonstrance addressed by this
government to the British government
was met with the excuse that the fishermen
were violating the local laws of Newfound-
land. Thus we were deprived of the privi-
lege of inshore fishing, for which we had
surrendered duties which yielded us about
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars
year. This privilege was expressly recog-
nized in the treaty as one Great Britain had
the right and power to grant, and no word
was heard of local laws that could interfere
with its exercise. Both parties held that
final settlement had been made, and that by
the provisions of the treaty all causes of dis
pute had been removed That was our in
ducement to enter into it. We did not sup
pose that it could be overruled by the local
laws of Newfoundland. Nor was that sup
position advanced by England.
As England chooses to permit violation
of the treaty there is but one course for us
to take. We cannot recover the money we
have paid. But we can cease paying more.
We can insist upon collecting the duties,
amounting to $35O,OOO year, which we
surrendered as consideration for the privi-
lege of inland fishing-a privilege our fisher
men are not permitted to enjoy unmolested.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21
SEMI.ANNUAL STATE CONVENTION
REFORM CLUBS OF MAINE
BuckspOrt, Wednesday and Thursday,
June I'd and Sd, 1880.

The semi-annual Convention of the Reform Clubs
of Maine will assemble at Bucksport, June I'd and
3rd, 1880, at 10 O'Clock A. nj.
1t is earnes .y hoped that er club in the State
will be fully represented, and let those clubs who
cannot be represented by delegates send reports by
letter the Convention 1t is the earnest desire to
make this Convention the most profitable one ever
held in the State, and to renew our faith and
uphofding of our principles "Non-political, nom
sectarian and non-prosecuting," "Charity for all
and malice towards none.''
The railroads have reduced their rates of fare as
follows:-Mane Central, one fare for the round
trip to Bangor; Grand Trunk, one fare for round
trip to connection with Maine Central; Portland u
Ogdensburg, one fare-return tickets furnished by
the President of the State Committee; Portland &
Machias Steamboat Co., one fare to Rockland and
return.
Delegates will call for Convention tickets from
their respective stations except on Portland Og-
densburg.
GEORGE H. LEFAVOR,
President of State Committee.
JOHN F. STANLEY, Secretary.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21

THE Hartford COurant is not wildly hap
py over Maynard's appointment. Hear it:
The President has at length dropped down
on Horace Maynard of Tennessee, Minister
to Turkey, for Postmaster General. 1t is
the same dreary old story of politician set
to do work for which he has no special fit
ness. And this is good news to the Bradys
and that sort. The President should have
dated his civil service letter the year 1900.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21
CITY OF PORTLAND.
In BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEl

In BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN,
May II, $780, !
ORDERED, That the City Clerk give notice to all
" parties interested by publishing copy of this
order in the Portland Daily Press of this city for
three weeks successfully, that this Board on MON
DAY, the seventh day of June next, at 71s O'Clock
p. NJ, at the Aldermen's Room, in City Building,
will hear all parties interested in the petition for
Sewers in the following streets, namely:
From Grove through Portland street and Deer
ings Oaks to behring's Bridge.
Merrill street from Melbourne to Quebec street.
Cumberland street from State to Mellen street.
And that thereafter this Board will determine
and adjudge if public convenience requires the con-
struction of sewers in said streets.
Read and passed.
Attesf H. 1. ROBINSON Clerk.
A true ctey.
Attest: H. L. ROBINSON, City Clerk.
my19 d3w
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21
THE London Globe throws doubts upon

THE London Globe throws doubts upon
the execution Of Joan of Arc at Rouen. A
Belgian writer says she was certainly alive
several years after the alleged day of her ex-
cution, on the last day of May, 1913. There
are also said to be good grounds for believ-
ing that the pretty tale of Abelard and He
loise is purely fiction. Next thing some
body will be doubling that Cap'n Chase
wept at the tomb of Washington.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21

WHAT THEY KNEW FOUR THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
From one of these be oks compiled after the
manner of our modern encyclopedias, and the
compilation of which is shown to have been
made more than 1000 years B. c., it has been
ascertained, what has long been supposed, that
Chaldea was the parent-land of astronomy; for
it is found from this compilation, and from
other bricks, that the Babylonians catalogued
the stars, and distinguished and named the
consultations; that they arranged the twelve
consultations that form our present zodiac to
show the course of the suns path in the heav-
ems; divided time into weeks, months and
now have it, into seven days, six days being
days of labor and the seventh day day of
rest, to which they gave name from which
we have derived our word Sabbath" and
which day, as day of rest from all labor of
every kind, they observed as vigorously as the
Jew or the Puritan. The motion of the heav-
emily bodies and the phenomena of the weather
were noted down, and a connection, as have
before stated, detected, as M. de Perville
claims to have discovered, between the wealth
er and the changes of the moon. They invented
the sun-dal to mark the movements of the
heavenly bodies, the water-clock to measure
tllIc, duu tu0y Spcdk III ILLS WOrk VI tn6 SpOLS
on the sun, a fact they could only have known
by the aid of telescopes, which it is supposed
they possessed, from observations that they
have noted down of the rising of Venus and
the fact that LayaId found crystal lens in the
ruins of Nineveh. These "bricks" contain an
account of the deluge, substantially the same
as the narrative in the Bible, except that the
names are different. They disclose that land
and houses were then sold, leased and mort
gagged, that money was loaned at interest, and
that the market gardeners. to use an American
phrase, worked on shares: that the farmer,
when ploughing with his oxen, beguiled his
labor with short and homely songs, two of
which have been found; and, to connect this
very remote civilization with the usages of to-
day, may, in conclusion, refer to one of the
bricks of this library, in the form of a notice,
which is to the effect that visitors are requested
to give to the librarian the number of the book
they wish to consult, and it will be brought to
them; at the perusal of which one is disposed
to fall back upon the exclamation of Solomon
that there is nothing new under the sum-
Chief Justice DAILY, in Popular Science Month
ly.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21

WHETHER George Eliot married Mr..
Cross, or whether, as the London Echo says,
the bride was the actual widow of the late
Mr.. Lewes, the following marriage notice
appeared in the London Times of May Sth:
On the 9th inst, at st. Georges, Hanover
square, John Walter Cross of Weybridge,
Surrey, to Mary Ann Evans Lewes of the
Priory, North bank, Regents park.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21

THE Bangor Commercial insists that the
Greenback doctrine sis sustained by the re-
corded sentiments of Washington, Adams,
Jefferson, Jackson and Franklin" This
statement by the Commercial is as true as
that one Just made by the Tabulators
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21
81 am for Blaine,r said Colonel Bob Ii

81 am for Blaine," said Colonel Bob In
gersoll to Tribune reporter. 81 want
Blaine to be nominated because he is a man
of genius: because he will fill the country
with enthusiasm, and because men dead for
other candidates will have wings for him.
With him as President we shall see new
era in this country. Government will be
pure and politics more patriotic"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21

SENATOR ROBERTSON of New York, who
recently announced his intention to vote at
instructions of the Utica convention, has re-
ceived large number of letters from influ-
ential Republicans all over New York State
approving of the stand he has taken.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE.

DUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that ABIGAIL
Il LIBBY, and ELIZABETH LIBBY, of Pownal
in the County of Cumberland, by their mortgage
deed bearing date the eighteenth day of February,
A. D. 1876 and recorded in the Registry of Deeds
of said County. Book 421, page 26S, mortgsged to
me certain piece of land. situated in said Pownal,
bounded and described follows viz: Beginning on
the county road at the Southerly corner of land
formerly owned by Eleazer Lake, thence running
Northwesterly to birch tree thence Southwesterly
to a stake, thence Northwesterly to stake and
stones, thence Southwesterly to land formerly
owned by David Nichols and Charles j. Dresser,
thence Southeasterly to stake and stones, thence
Southwesterly 10 corner, thence Southeasterly to
Sewall Jones' corner to stake and stones, thence
Southeastly by Sewall Jones' land and j. Tryons
land to the river thence Northeasterly by the river
about thirteen rods to yellow birch stub, thence
Southeasterly by Heman NJ. Browns land to said
Browns corner to stake and stones, thence North
easterly forty rods to stone and balmgiead tree,
thence by said Browns land to the road thence by
the road to the bounds first mentioned containing
ninetyseven acres ore or less, it being the home
stead farm of the late Edward Libby late of Pow
nal, deceased, with buildings thereon that still
hold said claimsby mortgage said Real Estate.
That the:condition in said mortgage is broken and
by reason thereof claim a foreclosure of the same.
DAVID j. LAWRENCE.
Pownal, April 26th, 1880 d1aw3wF
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21

THE Albany Journal says Ex-Governor
Council, who assisted in the theft of Maine,
have at last come to the surface-like a
whale-to blow"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21

Ex-GovERNoR CURTIN, in whose favor
many Democrats voted in the recent con-
tested seat case in Congress, once said that
the "moon always holds its nose when it
sails over Democratic District
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21

IT is claimed in special despatch from
Columbus that 81 of the A Ohio delegates
will go over to Blaine on the second ballot
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-21

passage Of the biggest river and harbor bill
ever known