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The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21
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Robinson Crusoe. Paper 100 pp., 20 cts. New
York: II ,rper & Brothers Portland Loring Short
& Harmon.
Beside the River. A Tale. BY Katharine s.
MacQuoid. Paper, 6s pp., 20 cents. New York:
Harper & Brothers. Portland: Loring Short &
Harmon.
Harry Josceiyn. Novel. By Mrs. Oliphant.
Paper, 81 pp., 20 cts. New York: Harper
g. Brothers. Portland Loring, Short g. Harmon
Who was Paul Grnyson. By John Hsbber-
ton. Cloth. illustrated. 169 PIP. New York. Har-
per & Bros. Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon
shalespeare's CorioIanus. Edited by Will
liam j. Rolfe. Cloth, illustrated, 279 pp 60 cts
New York Harper & Brothers. Portland: Loring.
Short & Harmon.
The Young Nimrods in North America.
Book for Boys. By Thomas W. Knox. Cloth.
299 pp. New York: Harper & Brothers. Port
land: Loring, Short s. Harmon.
Loulxis Laras: "Reminiscences of a Chiote Mer-
chant During the Greek War of Independence
BY D. Bikelas. Paper, 207 pp., 80 cents New
York: d. Appleton g. Co. Portland: Hoyt, Fogg
& Donham.
The Great viOIinists and Pianists. BY
George T. Ferris Paper, 1926 pp., 40 cents.
New York: ID. Appleton s. Co. Portland Hoyt,
Fogg Donham.
TIE Home Garden. By Ella Rodman Church.
Cloth, illustrated, 121 pp., 60 cents. New Yerk
d. Appleton Co. Portland Hoyt, Fogg &
Donham.
The Fathers of the Third Century. BY the Rev
George A. jackson. Early Christian Literature
Primers. Edited by Prof. George P. Fisher. Cloth,
-s211 pp-, 6n cts -New York ID. Appleton & Co,
Portland: Hoyt, Fogg s. Donham.
The Old Testament in the Jewish Church.
Twelve Lectures on Biblical Criticism. BY w.
Robertson Smith. CLOTH 446 pp., S1.75. New
York: d. Appleton & Co. Portland: Hoyt Fogg
& Donham.
A Question: The Idyl of Picture by his friend
Alma Tadsma related by Georg Ebers. Trans
lated from the German by Mary j. Stafford. Pa
per, 125 pp., 40 cents New York: William S.
Gottsberger. Portland: Loring, Short & Har
mon.
The Steam House. Part III, Tigers and Trai-
tors. Translated from the French of Jules
Verne by Agnes ID. Kingston. Cloth, illustrated,
246 pp., S1.5O. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons. Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon.
Woman's Handiworl in Modern Homes.
By Constance Cary Harrison. Cloth, illustrated,
242 pp., $500. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons. Portland Loring, Short & Harmon.
Journal of Farmers Daughter. BY Elaine
Goodale. Cloth, 1873 pp, 81. New York: G. p.
Putnam's Sons. Portland; Loring, Short & Har-
mon.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21

THE bill modifying the Servian Constitu-
ton of 1869 which has been passed by the
Skuptchina contains the following points of
liberal tendency. Personal freedom and
property are to be guaranteed by the con-
stitution against any possible violation. Ed
ucation is to be compulsory, and under
State control. Free expression of opinion is
to be guaranteed. Letters are to be inviola-
BILE. The right of holding political meetings
is to be provided for in the Constitution.
Private persons are TO have the right of cit
ing before the courts, officials who in the
exercise of their functions have done them
any injury. a suspension of the right to
personal freedom, of the right to hold polit-
ical meetings, and of freedom of the press
is only to be allowed in the case of imm-
nent danger, and the National Assembly is
to decide whether the suspension is to con-
tinue or not. Electors are to be allowed
complete freedom in choosing their repre-
sentatives. The responsibility of Ministers
is to be real and complete. Judges are to be
Independent and irremovable. A Supreme
Court of Audit is to be established for the
control of all State revenue and expenditure.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21
International COPYRIGHT.

Secretary Blaine is wisely giving his at
tention to making copyright treaty with
England. The proposed treaty is one in
which authors, both British and American,
are deeply interested; for its success or fail
ure will make considerable difference in
the returns for their labor. As it is now, a
successful English book can be reprinted
here, or a successful American book over
the water, much to the profit of the publish
ers, but with no pecuniary profit to authors
Some aid has been given to book-writers by
the so-called courtesy of the trade" But
that courtesy, like many other kinds of po-
likeness, is only practiced when it doesn't
cost much 1t is not recognized by law, and
the regard in which it is held by greedy pub
fishers is shown by the squabble between
the Harp1rs and the Scribners over the
works of Carlyle. The.writer has absolutely
no protection now. The American who in
vents new churn may take out patent
for it in England. The American who
writes book that commands the attention
of the English-speaking world cannot pre-
vent its publication in England by printers
from whom he gets no recompense,
English authors have long complained of
this injustice; because American publishers
have profted by their work. American
authors have sympathized with them; be-
cause American publishers did not care to
pay much for manuscripts when they could
get the works of English men of letters at
the slight cost of reprinting them. But
times have changed. American lit erature is
now worth stealing, and the English are
getting their revenge. A successful Amer-
can book is at once reprinted in London, and
neither American author nor publisher
gets any return from it. Cheap publishing
houses, too, have sprung up here which rap
idly throw off copies of British books,
the advance sheets of which have
been purchased by our great book
firms. Thus it is that our leading publish
ers now ask for an international copyright
treaty. Among the foremost is the firm of
Harper Brothers, which f1aunted the black
flag in its earlier years, and was about as
unscrupulous pirate as ever floate on
sea of ink. 1t has reformed; it finds an in
terest in becoming good; and so squats on
the anxious seat and prays for the rights of
authors. By its side, in like attitude of
prayer. are the other great publishing houses
of the United States. We may distrust
their motives, but we cannot dispute the
wisdom and the justice of their action. The
securing of a copyright treaty between Great
Britain and the United States will be of
large benefit to all writers in the English
language. 1t will also be of benefit to some
publishers. So much the better for the au-
thors. The assistance of this body of trained
mercenares is valuable to them just now,
and they will not hesitate to accept the aid
however selfish it may be, of the men whose
Golfers they have helped to fill.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21

II was just ten years ago that Roscoe
Conkling wrote to John A. Andrew: ''Shall
Republicans, in the face of the enemy, re-
fuse to stand by their cause, which in effect
is to desert to the other side, merely because
loaves have not come to their baskets or
fishes to their nets? Men stand talking
about Federal patronage aad differences
among leaders and personal feelings between
individuals and the like. What do the peo-
pie care about them? OF what public con-
sequence are the personal aims, objects and
mishaps of Individuals?
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21

THE old Gus tom was to call young women
Miss and the older women Mrs,
30 being a bout the dividing line, /,
of whether they were married or not. Eliz-
abeth A. kingsley writes to the Woman's
Journal that the usage was right and ought
to be revived. ''It is annoying" she says,
"to be introduced to Mrs. Brown, silly,
superficial creature yet in her teens, and the
next moment to be presented to Miss Will
liams, who at glance we perceive to be an
intellectual, noble. broad-soued woman of
80 or 40, worth more than dozen like Mrs.
Brown y
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21

THE following is the resolution unan-
mousy passed by the New York Legislature
at the time of Collector Robertson's nomi-
nation:
ReSolUed, That while this body will lose the
service of one of its ablest and most upright
members, the country at large will be the gain
er by his promotion to another sphere of duty.
Resotoed, That the thanks of this body are
due and are hereby rendered to the President
for the nomination of Senator Robertson, and
we cordially join in the request to the Senate
of the United States to confirm promptly and
heartily the action of the executive.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21

NEW YORK World: The brilliant artifce
of Senator Conkling in suddenly dropping
out of range before the Presidential batter
les could be opened upon him in the Senate
unfortunately is less original than brilliant.
1t was evidently suggested by an aecid ent
recorded in an Interesting work composed
by Mr.. Lear for the edification of the chill
dren of the noble house of Derby
''rhere young lady of Clare
Who was hotly pursued by bear
When she felt herself tired
She abruptly EXPIRED
This decided young lady of Clare"
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21

THE Vienna skating club has resolved to
hold an international Skating Festival in
the middle of January, 1882, and to in
vite the prominent skating-clubs of all the
world to take part in it.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21

We do not read anonymous lettors and commun-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publca
tion but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return preserve com
municatiOns that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21

SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 21.

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., 1881-05-21
PRICE 3 CENTS.

ell, His Majesty Myself, will be glad to renew
acquaintance with some of the characters of
that story 1t is a story with decided flavor
of its own, and wholesome, breezy fashion of
handling the phases of modern thought with
which it concerns itself. There are no half
tints about it; a fair-minded aud genial tenn
per-sometimes, it may be allowed, little alb
rupt in expression-pervades the whole book
The nom Eastern-M Massachusetts, reader will
much revel in Col Bakers lively setting.
forth of the atmosphere of culture
and the stress of study, strenuous
as the east winds, that feed and inspire the
young persons to go to Boston as to a mental
Mecca. His theories of the limitations of the
Aminine mind are excellent; and the good
sense with which he condemns the present fe-
tish-worshiD of mental cultivation, with its
one-sided and miserable results is fairly re-
freshing. His cheerful religious belief also ami
mates the story; and though it may be said that
Blessed Saint Certainty is not remarkable for
beauty of style or for romantic interest il is a
sound, rightminded hovel, worth reading aud
remembering
Another volume of Professor William j.
Rofo's edition of Shakspeare's Plays-an edi-
tion which in its way is unequalled as regards
both text and comment-contains the tragedy
OF Coriolanus Prof Rolfes Introductory essay
is model of historical and critical work. 1t
is gratifying, although no matter of surprise, to
find that his work as Shakesperian editor is
greatly valued by the members of the Shak-
speare society of London; and to read Profes-
sor Edward Dowden's cordial and unstiuted
praise, which comes with grace and authority
from the author of volume of critical essays
upon Shakspeares plays, akin in its cearnsss
and sympathy of thought to Professor Rolfe's
work.
Science of Mind By John Bascom. New
York: G. p. Putnams Sons; Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmony Professor Bascom is we'll
known as a deep and practical writer upon
the class of subjects in his department; and
this very full and philosophical treatise upon
mental science will add to his reputation. His
theories are not vague distractions, bat are
vidently studied from life with view
to practical application; and his di-
visions of mental powers and intui-
tions, the action of the brain, more or
less deliberate, the intellect, the feelings and
the will, will serve to render philosophy more
Ineligible and exact as a science.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21

THE Argus had something to say yester-
day about Mr.. Wallace R. White, and COM
planned of the President because he was
''party" to Mr.. Whites nomination for
United States district attorneyship. A
Democratic Senate has just confirmed the
nomination., and thus made itself another
party to what the Argus calls disgrace
full business" What has the Argus to say
to the Senate? Does it mean that ''party''
or some other ''party"?
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21

Blessed Saint Certainty. BY the au-
thor of His Majesty, Myself, Col. Dun
woddie Millionaire, etc. (Boston Rob-
erts Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short & Har-
mon.) This is vigorous story in which the
interested reader of Col. Bakers previous nov-
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21

A NEGRO lives on the plantation of G. NJ.
Ray, near Fayetteville, N. c., who has re-
manned with his old master since the war.
He has never asked for money, has never
missed days work, has never left home
and has never been known to do dishonest
act. How many white men have as good
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21

NEW HAVEN Palladium: Because of his
pre-eminent ability, and because of his past
services to the party, the Republicans of
New York may see fit to return Mr.. Conk-
ling to the Senate, but they will do it in
spite of, rather than in any sense because of.
his childish course in antagonizing the ad-
ministration. He cannot be indicated In
this because there is no ground for his vim
dication.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21

We the undersigned having sold our apothecary
stock to Mr.. W. S, Banks, who has served ten years
with us and Others in the business and knowing
him to be well instructed in Pharmacy, cordially
bespeak for him continuance of the liberal patron
age hitherto bestowed on us.
my10 diff j. E. STURGIS s. Co.
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At this thought she let the notes fall
with a sickening horror. How did she
know but that worse crime than robbery
had been committed for the sake of those
notes.
But, meanwhile, what would she do
with this money? She wondered that the
peddler had never attempted to regain
possession of the valuable garment; but
since the night of his attempted robbery
of her fathers house, he had never been
seen or heard of by any one Of that neigh
borhood
Some young men had, on the following
day, secured the woods and roads in search
of him, but had seen no stranger, save a
tall man, with short red hair, who spoke
in broad Scotch accent, and carried a
bible aud some tracts in his pocket.
1t was in December that this good for
tune befell the young couple, and when
the April crocuses put forth their little
heads among the young grass in the gar
den of the crossroads cottage they beheld
Kitty tying up the vines about her little
porch, while Walter seemed particularly
busy within a door, over which was in-
scribed in big black letters, "Store and
Post Office"
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The Care Of the Matches,

In nothing about the household does the
injunction to have IA place for everything
require more strict enforcement than in
the care Of matches. What are known as
s'parlor matches light the most readily,
and are as much more dangerous than the
common matches as they are more conve-
uient. The general stock should be kept
in tin box, which is not to be opened or
taken from except by the master or mis-
tress Of the house. For each room where
matches are used there should be metal
mateh-safe Of some kind, aud the matches
are to be kept in that and nowhere else.
Il should be regarded as serious offence
for match to be elsewhere or for ever so
short time found lying around loose,
In the kitchen and the bedroom, or wher-
ever else matches are 10 frequent use, il IS
better 10 have the match-safe fixed and
always 10 the same place, 50 that il can be
found, if need be, 10 the dark. In taking
matches from the larger box to repleuish
the safes, let that always be done by ons
person, aud it win pay fer that person to
look over the matches at the time, throw
ing away all broken ones; and where, as Is
often the case, two or more are stuck to.
gether BY the explosive mixture, these
should be carefully broken apart, aud uo-
less two good matches are the result, rather
than to put iuto the safe one with too lit
tie aud the other With ragged excess Of
the mixture, throw both away. Also throw
Iato the Gre those matches that have two
or three times a. much Of the mixture 90
the ends a. they shonld have These, il
lighting, oftcn explode aud scatter burning
particles in a dangerous manner. II 10
lighting a match, dag or night, ii breaks,
or the explosive end comes of without
lighting. do nothing else until that ebd IS
found, and put into the Ere. or where it
can do no harm Ia fact, treat matches,
every match, as it were, As it really IS, =
frearm, capable Of dangerous mischief to
pesou and property. Teach the children
to carefully observe the sane caution
ABsericaH Aqricnlfuriss.
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The Public School Teacher.

There IS no man or woman in any cali
ing or form of servitude, that does more
hard work for less pay than the common
school teacher,--alloWing that the common
school teacher is the right sort of teach
er, and does his or her work capably BY
common school teacher, we mean teacher
of the ordinary public school.
The work TO be done differs in nature
from any other manner of work under the
sun. The young men and women who at
tend colleges and high schools have learned
to use books, and the college or academy
professor assigns lessons with the full as
suranee that his class is able to appreciate
the true meaning of the books. But the
primary school teacher has no such assur-
ance. He knows that his classes may
memorize what is laid down in the books,
and vet not understand it. He has to be
to them an interpreter Of hidden meanings.
He oftentimes has to simplify and explain
over and over again, before his pupils learn
the real meaning All this is terrible
wear to the nervous system. 1t requires
a patience almost superhumau to do such
work properly. Those who think that four
hundred dollars per annum or even eight
hundred dollars is too much pay for ca
pable common school teacher, have very
small idea of the work to be done,-Ches-
fert0icn, Jfa., Transcript
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What viii Happen if You Live to be DID,

You will at first be surprised to hear
yourself called an old man, or "the old
gentleman" This you win soon begin to
consider as token of respect, but when
by the way of insult you are called "old
dad" by insolent boys, you will long to see
the bear coming out of the woods.
No, am not an old man, will be your
unspoken thought l can walk, run and
lump, which latter an old man cannot do.
/ have good appetite, good eyesight, good
digestion, hear well, sleep well, and enjoy
life. True, there are some gray hairs and
wrinkles, but what of that? ? Others have
the same that have never indulged the
thought of being old Why, there is my
neighbor, he is nearly ten years older than
/; he is engaged in active business with
full as much anxiety and industry as his
sons. True, he wears speetacles, so do
many Younger men or even myself, but
that is simply an infrmity of slight ac-
count. And so you will argue from year
to year, trying to convince yourself that
YOU are not an old man, not even falling,
not much, not much.
But at last you will be compelled to ac-
knowledge that your joints are little too
stiff, that you get weary with little extra
exertion, and, finally, that you get very
tired. You hold your book at very in-
convenient distance, your newspaper is
blurred, and you conclude to submit to
wearing spectacles, at first the fashionable
price nez, but eventually this is not so
convenient, and as your have made up your
mind to agree with you friends that you
are in reality an old man, you adopt the
old-fashioned bow speetacles.
Time goes on, weariness increases, spec
tacles must be changed, partial badness,
comes, hearing is capricious, not really
deafness, but an inability to distinguish
between the words spoken to you; your
hair has lost the gray and put on the white,
your hands are bunch of wrinkles and
veins, your face has lost its color and your
flesh has shruuken and weight diminishes.
You fall and are hardly able to rise, the
slight moisture naturally exudiag from the
skin has nearly dried up, and for the want
| of the friction that it should afford, things
drop from your hands despite your clutch.
You incline forward either in standing,
walking or sitting; you try to counteract
this attitude of decrepitude and to stand
erect, but the cartilages that have held the
joints in proper shape have shrunken on
one side from unnatural pressure and will
not let you up.
Ambition fails, memory is treacherOus,
the tongue does not obey volition, and you
fall over the least obstruction, and finally
you are ready to say with the immortal
poet, "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste
sans everything"
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European Gambling Houses.

The Paris correspondent of a New York
journal, in describing the gambling estab-
lishments of Europe and the deeorum OBJ
served therein, says No girls under 10
wears of age are admitted to the rooms at
all; BOYS are strictly prohibited from play
inc: conversation in loud voice is for
hidden; the chairs around the gambling
tables are to be occupied only by players;
gentlemen are not permitted to keep their
hats on; smoking is not allowed. The
maximum stake at trente ct quarante is
twelve thousand francs, the minimum 20
At roulette the maximum is 5000 francs
and the minimum 3. No one is admitted
to the gaming rooms without card of ad-
mission, which is obtained by answering
the following questions ITO what eoun-
try do you belong?" "Where are you
stayiug?" ''What is your profession p
These answers are registered, and on the
back of the card of admission the intend
ing gambler is reqirued to sign his name.
The gambling-rooms are lighted at night
by large, shaded lamps suspended over the
tables. Gas has been dispensed with, as
an attempt was once made to rob the bank
by turning off the gas and seizing the
money. The scene around the tables is
an interesting one to a student Of human
nature; but there is little amusement to be
got out of it on account of the sad, anxious
faces. Only the croupiers retain an utterly
uninterested look. Their salaries are large
and sure
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Pastimss Long Ago.

50 much Of our life Is made up from
books and papers that We caa scarcely i'm.
agino what people did in the old times be
fore they had any such things. Il is said,
however, that they spent good deal Of
their tine IN the evenings telling riddles
aud guessing hard questions and an old
book printed 10 1911 gives the following
specimens
.. Who was Adam mother
a. The earth
Q. How many calves tails would it
take to reach from the earth to the sky
A. One, if it were loag enough
Q. What is it that never was and never
viii be
4. A mouse's nes. 10 a eats ear.
q Why do men make an oven in a
town
A. Because they canno, make town
in an ovea,
Q, What is it that never freezes ?
A. Boiling water.
q. Which was the first, the hen or the
egg?
\. The hen, at the creation.
O. How many straws @ to make a
goose nest?
\. Not one, for the straws not having
feet cannot 90 anywhere.
@ Who killed the fourth part Of all the
people in the world
A. Cain, when be killed Abel.-4d-
rnnce