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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29
Mrs. Garfield on Woman's Duties

Mrs. Garnold on WOman'S Duties.
[Richmond, (va.) Religious Herald.l
The late number Of the Student, a little pa
per published by the students of Hiram col.
lege, quotes an extract from letter written by
Mrs. Garfield to her husband over ten years
ago, and intended for no eyes but his. 1t fell
into the hands of President Hinsdale, who
made use of it in lecture to the students, and
as it showed the qualities of Mrs. Garfield's
mind, and her opinions upon the subject of
woman's work, he gave it to the students,
The extract is as follows: 81 am glad to tell
that out of all the toll and disappointments of
the summer just ended, 1 have risen up to a
victory, that silence of thought since you have
been away has won for my spirit triumph.
I read something like this the other day:
There is no healthy thought without labor,
and thought makes the labor happy Perhaps
this is the way have been able to climb uu
higher. 1t came to me one morning when
was making bread / said to myself Here ]
am compelled by an inevitable necessity to
make our bread this summer. Why not con-
slider it a pleasant occupation, and make it SO
by trying to see what perfect bread I can
make" 1t seemed like an inspiration, and the
whole of life grew brighter. The very sun
shine seemed flowing down through my spirits
into the white loaves, and now l believe my
table is furnished with better bread than ever
before; and this truth, old as creation, seems
just now to have become fully mine-that
need not be the shrinking slave of toll, but its
regal master, making whatever do yield me
its best fruits. You have been king of your
work SO long that may be you will laugh at
me for having lived so long without my crown,
but am too glad to have found it at all to been
entirely disconnected even by your merrlment
Now, l wonder if right here does not lie the
terrible wrong, or at least some of it, of which
the woman suffragists complain. The wrongly
educated woman thinks her duties disgrace,
and frets uuder them or shirks them if she can.
She sees man triumphantly pursuing his voca-
tions, and thinks it is the kind of work he
does which makes him grand and regnant;
whereas it is not the kind of work at all, but
the way in which and the spirit with which he
In
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PRICE 8 CENTS.

pay that amount to the Postmaster who will
give him in return one of the cards with the
figure one pinched out in the first column, the
figure in the second and the 5 in the third.
In the $5 order there will be three ciphers
printed in the dollar column, which will be
punched out If the sender desires to transmit
that amount. No indication will be made of
the sender or the intended receiver. A stub
with the amount and the date will be the only
record of the postoffice authorities This card
will be redeemed at any Post Office where it is
presented before the expiration of three months
from its issue. The new order will be protect
ed from counterfeiting by fine lathe work
and an official stamp, and will be printed on q
light note paper which cannot be easily de-
tected in the envelope and removed by thief
These orders may not be safer to send than
money, but they will obviate the necessity Of
sending postage stamps for odd amounts, and
will consequently come into general use. The
lower denominations will be sold for two and
the higher for four cents. 1t is said that bill
authorizing these cards will be introduced in
Congress in connection with one to extend the
old money order to 800. 1t is also proposed to
change the price of money orders from five to
forty-five cents as the orders increase from S5
to 800. These changes will be welcomed by
thousands of people who are constantly an
noyed in sending small amounts by mail.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29

JUDGE PEARSON of the Dauphin county,
Pennsylvania court, sustains Attorney Gen
eral Palmer's opinion that the members of
the Legislature are not entitled to $500 ad-
ditional pay each, for the extra 80 days SER
vice rendered at the recent session. An act
passed in 1874 provided that members of the
Legislature should receive $1,000 for 100
days service, and $40 per day for all sue
ceeding days of the session not exceeding
30. This law was enacted under section
OF the State constitution, providing that
members of the Legislature shall receive
such salaries as shall be fixed by law during
the session of the Legislature, and Judge
Pearson decides that the payment of fixed
salary precludes the idea of daily wages in
addition and that that part of the act of
1874, propos ing daily pay, in addition to a
fixed sum for me mbers of the Legislature is
unconstitutional and void. The bills for
this extra 81 days service amounted to
about S125,O0O. Probably if this decision
had been anticipated the Senatorial contest
would have been much shortened
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29
Mr.. Blaine at Home.

The London World has added to its series of
Celebrities at Home" a sketch of Mr.. Blaine,
from which, though it contains nothing very
new, the following may be quoted: "Mr. Sec-
retary Blaine's house is uncontestably the
most popular in Washington. On Wednesday
afternoon-the days in Washington when, dur
ing the session of Congress, the wives of Cabi-
net Ministers and those of foreign Ambassa-
dors receive-there is no house in tue Ameri-
can capital so crowded. Whatever the wealth
er, however thin the attendance in other
drawing-rooms, there is always throng at
Mr.. Blaine's. Nor is this duo to the import
ance of his present position as Secretary of
State. 1t was the same when he was in Con-
gress, whether as member or Speakerof the
House; it was the same when he was in the
Senate; it would be the same if Mr.. Blaine
were not in politics. People go there because
they like Mr.. Blaine and all his family, which
consists of his intellectual and ladylike wife, a
kinswoman of brilliant reputation in American
letters, who uses the nom de plume Of Gail
Hamilton, and six fine and promising children.
In the examination of the drawing-rooms at
Mr. Blaine's we find among other valuable
possessions one very interesting picture-a
large canvas by Sir Peter Lely, representing
Charles II. and his Court. 1t is signed with
Lord Baltimore, and was bought by Mr.. Blaine
for sum of comparative unimportance at the
sale of the Calvert estate, Riverdale, Md, a
| few pears ago. There is not an art gallery in
Europe, public or private, which would not be
enriched by this large historical picture, full of
portraits, and executed in Lely's most delicate
and yet most animated style. Near at hand,
on pedestal, stands a fine life-size bust of
Mr.. Blaine as good likeness of the statesman
as could perhaps be obtained in this form of a
man, the charm of whose features lies princi-
pally in their mobility and ever changing play.
Portraits of men of letters abound here.
Dickens, Thackeray, Disrael, Washington
Irving, Hawthorne and many others gaze
down from the walls, principally in the last of
the suit of drawing g-rooms-the one in which
the Premier sits of morning before getting to
the Department of State, examining such let
ters as imperatiyely demand his attention at
home. Routine correspondence is carried on
by secretaries in vast room at the top of the
house and is an enormous aud never ceasing
task.'
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The Match-Making Queen.

The story comes over the water that Queen
Victoria is anxious to secure the repeal of the
law which prohibits the marriage of a widower
with his deceased wife's sister, In order that
the Grand Duke of Hesse can wed the Princess
Beatrice, who is getting to be quite an old
maid. But for difference in religion it is
supposed that Beatrice might have been the
queen of Spain. Her majesty is celebrated as
a matchmaker, quite as much so as Mrs.
Hayes, who married off all her eligible nieces
during the four years she was mistress Of the
White House. 1t used to be a current remark
when new young lady arrived at the Execu-
tive Mansion, "What young man has Mrs.
Hayes in view now?' The queen is already
looking out for a good match for her grandson,
the heir to the throne after his father, the
Prince of Wales, and it is understood in court
circles that after scanning the entire courts Of
Europe, she has about decided that the Prin-
cess Clementine, the third daughter of the
king of Belgium and the sister Of the future
queen of Austria, would make a suitable bride
a couple OF years hence.
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The Second District Democrats.

The Democratic convention to nominate
candidate for Congress from the Second
District is to be held next week. While its
action, whatever it may be, will be of no
consequence as affecting the election, it is
likely to prove of some interest as revealing
the state of mind of the Democratic party.
There are signs that all is not harmonious.
Evidently difference of opinion exists as
to the polite thing to do, whether to swal
low Judge Gilbert or to make a separate
nomination. There seems to be certain
number of Democrats-ho large the num-
Der is we have no means of knowing till the
convention meets--who appear disposed to
kick against the acceptance of the Green
back nominee, spite of the fact that the
Argus tells them it is not the proper caper.
Some of these men have opposed coalition
with the Greenbackers from the first and
are therefore entitled to the credit of acting
from principle. Many more, we suspect,
are simply virtuous ad interim as it were,
or until time arrives when it will pay to
be otherwise. If there were the slightest
chance of electing Judge Gilbert by coali-
tion with the Greenbackers these men
would not oppose him, trusting that the
Judge might turn out as favorably as have
Murch and Ladd. But as Gov. Dingley's
election is certain, whatever combination
may be formed against him, they deem it a
good time to lay in little stock of virtue,
Or something that resembles it. They argue
that the Democratic party is about out Of
that article and while some can be
got dirt cheap it is best to get it
The other faction, represented. by the
Argus, take rather more practical view
of the situation. Their argument undoubt-
edly is that the Democrats can get along
much better without any manifestation OF
virtue except an occasional shrek of Gre
form," than they can without the Green
back vote; that there is nothing risk
ed in voting for Judge Gilbert even if he is
pledged to oppose both the old parties, mas
much as he cannot be elected, but on the
other hand such action will put the Green.
hackers under obligation to the Democrats
and make their assistance forthcoming when
itsis wanted.
Probably the faction represented by the
Argus is much the larger of the two and
will experience little trouble in promptly
suppressing any delegate who may be rash
enough to suggest that there may be times
when the Democratic party in Maine car
safely indulge in spasm of virtue. Posi-
bly,, however, as this is an off year, the
other crowd may brace up enough to make
the show entertaining
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29

TIE Globe, the New York organ of the
colored people, gives the following advice,
which it would benefit all to heed, irrespec-
tive of color: "We should like certain set of
young men to drink less whiskey, pay their
debts without murmuring, and cease defam-
ing men Of good character in the presence
of others for the purpose of creating an I'M
preston that they are of more conse-
quence than they really are. Positions do
not make men, but men make positions. A
coward is bravado at all times-in the alb
sence of the man he fears.''
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29

THERE is considerable sense in the theory
which is advanced by some of the newspa-
pers that the Internal machines sent to Eng
land were never meant to ex plode anywhere,
but were simply designed to exaggerate the
Importance of the Fenian organization in
this country. Nothing delights Rossa and
his band so much as being thought danger
GUS. he American press has been making
fun of them and their ''skirmishing band''
OF late and this dem onstration may have
been simply device on their part to over
come the effect of this ridicule. The fact
that the English government was notified
that the machines were on their way in sea-
son to make their seizure certain tends to
confirm this theory.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29
The Mormon Question in Georgia.

lAtlanta Ga, Constitutional
The ract that the Mormon mission in Geor-
gia is strong enough to warrant the calling of a
conference-and the effrontery displayed by
"Walter Scott, president" in requesting the
Constitution to advertise the meeting-shows
that Mormonism, by some means or other, by
playing upon the credulity of the ignorant and
upon the cupidity of those who lay claims to
intelligence, has obtained a footing in Georgia.
How large its congregation is-how many un-
fortunate people have been duped into becom-
ing members of this well-known society for the
propagation OF prostitution and other forms of
immortality, cannot now be known; but we
have information which leads us to believe
that the mountain districts of Alabama Geor-
gia, North Carolina and Tennessee are full of
unfortunate people who, for one purpose and
another, have become Mormons.
1t is fair to say that the Mormonism which
lifts its lecherous front in Utah is not the Nor
monism which is preached to those who are
members of the Mormon conferences which
have been organized in the States. At the
same time it would be unjust to the ancient
streak of Adam in human nature to credit
majority of the converts with ignorance That
they are relatively ignorant is true, but there
are few, even among those who are grossly ig-
norant who are not thoroughly well acquainted
with the fact that the end and aim of Mormon
the vital spark Of womanhood which, under
the name of virtue, has carried forward the
civilization of mankind. 1t is to be feared, in
deed, that those in Georgia and the neighbor-
ing States who have attached themselves to
Mormonism are only too well acquainted with
the corrupt tendencies and intentions Of the
organization.
The other States may do as they please with
respect to the growing Generalization which
is developing into Mormon Conferences" but
Georgia wants no Mormonism in its borders.
The State cannot afford to tolerate such an in
sidious form of crime and corruption. Neither
can the United States afford to temporize with
Mormonsm in Utah. 1t must be rooted out
and destroyed by law wherever found. 1t is
based on polygamy, and polygamy is merely a.
convenient method of encompassing the ruin
of women, and of contributing to the vile apDe
.ites of the Mormon leaders and elders. The
advertisement of "Walter Scott, president" is
virtual challenge to our legislators, who rep
resenting the pnblic sentiment of their con-
stituents, are bound to resent the invasion OF
the commonwealth by the agents of immo-
rality.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29
The Proposed Postal Order.

Postmaster General James will ask au-
thority from Congress to issue new postal or
der in two denominations running from $3.50
and $500, respectively. These blanks will
have the figures 1, 2, 8 and printed in one col
umn, the nine numerals in another, and again
in third. When Postmaster prepares an
order for use he will punch out in the three
columns the figures making the sum desired.
That is, if party desires to send $1.75 he will
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29

AMONG the men named as possible sue
cessors to Dean Stanley are his brother-in-
law, Dean Vaughn, who has twice refused
bishopric, and Canon Duckworth, who
was at one time famous as the person for
whom tle Princess Louise had conceived a
violent passion. Since then he has been
made notorious without any fault Of his
own, through scandal growing out of the
love of a less exalted but equally devoted
woman, and it is thought that his promo
ton would be assured if he could only be
guaranteed against the admiration of the
fair sex.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publica-
tion but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
municatioDs that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29
JOHN P. IRISH, the Democratic ora

JOHN P. IRISH, the Democratic orator of
Iowa, gives in his paper, the Iowa State
Press, the following remarkable expression
OF opinion: "There is no longer any doubt
of the cruel fraud played upon the people by
Bliss and Blaine in rela ton to the Presi-
dents wound. 1t was flesh wound only,
never penetrated the abdominal cavity at all,
and had the truth been known about it
much anxiety would have been saved.
Guiteau deserves the highest penalty of the
law, and Blaine and Bliss ought to be pub
licly Gated in Jackson Square,"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29

A MAY without a liver has appeared bear
ing the very inappropriate name of Liver
more when it should be Liverless. He says
he lost part Of it in the Mexican war, and
the remainder in the war of the Rebellion.
He says he never felt so we'll in his life as
when he got rid of the whole of it. He be-
lieves the liver is mistake of nature. It
was probably made especially for the bene-
fit of quack doctors.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29

Mr. JAMES REDPATH made violent har-
angue at the land league meeting at Dublin,
Tuesday night He alluded to John Bright
as renegade and called Sir William Har-
court liar, a slanderer and coward, and
undertook to annihilate Mr. Foster by cal
ling him an infamous Quaker. An attack
Of epithelioma might do Mr.. Redpath good.
1t would give his tongue rest.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29
The Presidents Condition.

The President passed very comfortable
day yesterday up to 5p. m. when his pulse
and temperature rose considerably, but not
enough to give the physicians alarm. The
7.3O p. m. bulletin was not quite so favor
able as the corresponding bulletin of the
night before. 1t is evident that it will be a
long time yet before the President can be
considered out of danger.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29

A CORRESPONDENT of the Providence
Journal thinks it a hazardous thing to write
on the subject of love for a daily newspaper.
He is right. 1t is so hazardous that no one
should risk it. Ditto, poetry on the seasons
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
20 the Honorable Board of Rail-
road Commissioners for the State
of Maine.


MOST respectfully represent the undersigned
V1 that the Portland, Saco q Portsmouth Rail-
road Company is a corporation established and ex-
listing nnder the laws of the State of Maine and the
owner of certain line of railroad extending from
Portland In said State to Portsmouth in the State
OF New Hampshire; that it has granted the use and
control of its said road to the Eastern Railroad
Company a corporation established by law, but up
That said Eastern Railroad Company now has the
control of said road and is operating the same and
engaged in the transportation of passengers and
freight on the entire line of said road.
That public convenience and necessity require the
erection and maintenance of depot for freight and
passengers on the line of said Portland, Saco g.
Portsmouth Railroad in Saco in the County of
York, in said State of Maine, at or near the point
where the Old Orchard junction Railroad intersects
said Saco.
Your petitioners, therefore, respectfully ask that
q day may be appointed by your Honorable Board
for hearing upon the foregoing petition that YOU
will determine whether the prayer of the petition
ers shall be granted, and if such prayer is
granted that you will determine at what place or
places depot station shall be erected or main
tanned If erected and whether for passengers or for
passengers and freight.
buildings shall be erected and maintained and the
time in which the said Portland, Saco Ss Ports
mouth Railroad Company and Eastern Railroad
Company, or either of them, shall comply with said
order
Portland Maine, July Is, 1881.
Nathan Cleayes, j. M. Robbins, Morgan, Butler &
Ian Co., Allen & Co., Loring, Short & Harmon
II. M: Payson. A. N. Noyes & Son, E.. M. Stead
man Co., Storer Bros. & Co., Woodman, True
& Co., o. M. & d. w. Nash. G. B. Nash, Shaw,
Hammond q q Carney, Il Hodgdon Bros, Charles B.
Alden, Howes, Hilton & Co., j. Mcclellan, Wm
Senter.
On the foregoing petition it is hereby ordered that
the petitioners give notice by publishing in the
Portland Daily PRESS said petition and this order of
notice thereon, two weeks successively, the last
publication to be prior to the fourth day of August
1881, and by serving a copy of said petition and
order of notice on said Portland Saco s. Portsmouth
Railroad Company and said Eastern Railroad Com
pany, fourteen days before said date on which day,
at two O'Clock in the afternoon the undersigned
Board Of Railroad Commissioners will be in session
at the Old Orchard House, Old Orchard Beach, in
the City OF Saeo County of York, for the purpose
Dated at Portland, July 1s, A. D., 1881.
Join Mi Eizfs +. ASphRsoN, comnissioners nailEGas
CHAS. j. TALBOT, of Maine
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THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 20.

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS Is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor, Ali railway, steamboat and hotel managers
Will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
OF every person claiming to represent our Journal
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29

THE first effect of the address of the New
York Democratic legislature seems to have
been to bring ''crank" with an empty gun
to the State Capitol. That will probably be
its only effect,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29

The Philadelphia Times proposes this
ticket for 1884: For President and Vice
President, Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Garfield,
and the women to be allowed to vote,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29

THE Times of New Orleans styles that
city 'the most misgoverned, the most hood
lumized, the most beknaved and befum-
mered Of all cities.',
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29

THE Western Greenbackers have gone in
to the campmeeting business. Converts SO
far have been scarce.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-29

WONDER if Mrs. Tibbles sent Boston a
generous slice of the bridal loaf.''
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Boston Globe: In spite of the anti-treat-
ing law, Wisconsin people are seeing two
comets with four lemon colored tails.