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The Portland daily press., 1881-04-21
MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD.
On and after Dec. I9ih, 1850,

On and after Dec. I9fh, 1850,
Passenger Trains leave Portland
For Auburn and Lewiston, at 1880 and
sos p. m. and for Lewiston via Brunswick,
For Hanger, Dexter, WaferviIle, Belfast
& skowhegan at 1890, 1910, and IL .15 p. m.
For Augusta, HallOweli, Gardiner, and
For Kockiand and all stations on Knox g. Lin
coin r. R., and for Pennington, via Brunswick
at 100 a. NJ and 1910 p. m.
For Rnth at 700 q. M. and 1910 and 5.15 p. m.
winthrop, KeaiheId, IVES, WaaerViiie,,
North Arson and Waterviiie via Lewiston
at 1870 p.
Fer Watervii.e via Augusta, 700 am
The Ills p m. train is she Night Express, with
Pullman sleeping car attached and runs every
might, Sundays included.
CuOse connections are made at Bangor for all
stations on the Bucksport & Bangor Bangor & Pts
cataluis and E. & n. A. Railways: the Maine Cen
trail r. r. forming with the E. & N. A. s. st. John,
nd Maine Railways,
The Provincial & New England All Rail Line
tSs NgSf train Setvs ss shd s
every Sunday (night,) between boston, Portland
aud ST. John, Halifax, and all parts of the
Maritime Provinces; trains leaving Portland at
12.4O and 11.15 p m. The latter making CON
nections with trains for Houlton, WOodsiock,
-. Andrews, St. stephen, Freaei teton,
Limited Tickets for 81. j ohm and HuIi-
fax ON sale at reduced rates.
Passenger Trains arrive i'm Portland as
follows:-The morning trains from Augusta Bath
and Lewiston at 1855 and $40 a. m. The day
trains from Bangor, and all intermediate and
branch stations and connecting roads at IL AS
and 1880 p. m. The afternoon trains from Au-
gusta, Bath, and Lewiston at 5.45 D. m. The
Night Pullman Express train at 15O q. m. From
st. John and Halifax at 1850 p. M. and 80
a.
PAYsoN TUCKER. sup't
Portland. Dec Is. 1850.
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The Portland daily press., 1881-04-21
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

DURSUANT to a license from the Hon. Judge of
Il Probat for the county of Cumberland, shall
sell at public auction. on the premises on Monday,
the sixteenth day of May, A. d. 1881, at three
at private sale at which, notice of desire to sell
the same is hereby given all the right title and in
the State of New Hampshire deceased, had in and
to the following described real estate viz: certain
lot of land with the buildings thereon, situated in
westerly side of Washington street and numbered
134 on said street; being the same premises convey
ed to the said Joseph Chandler by Addie Richards
corded in the Cumberland Registry of Deeds Book
1885, Page 43S; and is subject to a mortgage from
said Chandler to Elizabeth J.. Ballard. dated April
9Th, 1877, and recorded in said Registry, Book 437
Page 1888, and on which there is due the sum of
5000 and interest at nine per cent from April 6th
1879.
Dated this thirteenth day of April, A. d. 1881.
ALFRED r. EVANS. Administrator.
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The ,ayorIte Steamers Forest City and John
Brooks will alternately leave FRANKLIN WHARF
Portland, and INDIA WHARF, Boston, at 7
O'Clock p. m. daily, Sundays excepted
Passengers by this line reminded that they
and inconvenience of arriving in Boston late night
sT- Tickets and Staterooms for sale at ". II.
TOUNG'S, 272 Middle Street.
Through Tickets to New York, via the various
Rail and Sound Lines for sale st very low Rates.
Freight taken usual.
=. NJ. COXEE, Dr., 81 Ages..
aIrb 1T
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-21
Harvard University Examinations
FOR WOMEN.

(Woman's Education Assocation)
THE eighth examination will be held in Cam
l. bridge New York, Philadelphia and Cincin-
natl, beginning June 30th, 1881. The examination
will be the same that for entrance to the Col
lege, but any candidate may substitute French and
German for Greek. Those who pass this examna-
ton and receive certificate entitled to enter
the courses given to women by the Professors of
Harvard University. This certificate may also be
presented at Vassar and Smith Colleges as equiva-
lent for examination in the studies preparatory or
Collegiate covered by it. For information address
secretaries of local committees.
ia BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
60 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY
9OS CLINTON ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA
81 WALNUT ST., CINCINNATI, OHIO,
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The Portland daily press., 1881-04-21

Wanted at the College of Tele-
graphy.
E0 YOUNG Ladies and Gentlemen, to learn
wv the Profession. Extensive arrangements
are being made for School which will connect
with many Private Dwellings aud Offices about the
City, giving actual Line communication.
Able instructors i'm Charge.
For terms apply to F. A. JOHNSON, Propr.
mar12du 65 Exchange Street.
Wanted.
n L Mt. Cut or House. A middle aged American
"A woman, who understands cooking ana general
housewOrk. No one need apply without the above
qualifi cations. HIRAM BASTON
Hiram, April Id, 1881. apr16d2w
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A GOOD C0pyist. Apply to FRANK CURTIS,
"A New Portland Theatre. apr16dtf
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A Bargain For Some One.

DOR SALE OR TO LET.-Two-story house
l. nine rooms, foot of Pleasant street, opposite
Maine Central strtion, Woodfords Cemented eel
lar, furnace, hard and soft water.
ap19d1w* j. N. READ, Woodfords.
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-21

Cosy Summer Residence for Rent or Sale.
A Falmouth Foreside, Az miles from Portland
"A Also office or desk room to let Inquire of
CHARLES MERRILL
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TO LET.
Piano TO Rent.

g TX and " Octave. This Piano is not new, but
- has been carefully kept, and is suitable for a
beginner. Terms low. Apply at 90 Park Street.
between and p. NJ. r14dtf
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-21

TAILOR. Always on hand the best
l. German, FRENCH and English Goods.
w. H. KOHLING. 50 Exchange St
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-21

4 1NDERTAkERS, Baskets, Collins.
~ Robes, and every requisite for funerals.
MCkENNA B Nol1GHER 424 Congress st
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-21

TAILOR and Draper. Fine Goods and
l. First-class Work Speciality.
II
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
The Value of Life.

One of the interesting specuiatiGns
recently started III England has for
subject the present value OF life AS com
pared with its value when mankind did
not spend half of its time in studying
the problem Of prolonging life. One
of the leading London physicians de-.
clares that men were happier and bet
ter, and lived nobler lives, before tbs
pursuit of health and the yearnings for
longevity became a craze almost
amounting to badness, and before the
Questions what to eat, drink and to
avoid, and what to wear, and how to
live, by what means to avoid infection,
to keep off disease, and to escape death
Cor few weary and wearied years, were
the all-engrossing ones. Another urges
that the " survival of the tttest," so far
as the race is concerned, is II great mis-
talae and that humanity in general
would be great deal better off ii there
we're less OF tie loving labor now ex-
pended in prolonging the lives OF the
weak, diseased and crippled
There is no danger that either of these
views will find general acceptance. The
world has become so accustomed to
studying the laws of health and long
life, and enjoys the study so much, that
it is not likely to abandon il, even for
she purpose of bringing back the happy
days when men didn't care anything
about diet and drainage and pure air.
There is Just as Little danger of any
retrogTession in the matter of caring
FOR the sick and helpless. 1t may be
worse Tor the race, ia one aspect OF the
case, To prolong lives of suffering and
to interfere with the natural process
which extinguishes the weakhngs in a
few generations. But what the race
loses III this way it is repaid an hundred
:old in the cultivation and expansion Of
It's finer emotions Detroit Free Press.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09

which esteem man to be mere beef
without mustard, good for nothing at
all but 10 run on errands for ladies', take
boxes Mt the theater, and act the part of
screen at tea parties, or a walking
stick in the streets. L merely speak of
these old boys VINO infes. public walks,
pounce upon ladies from every corner
of the street, and worry, and frisk, and
ramble, and caper before, behind and
round about the fashionable bellies, like
old ponies in pasture, striving to sup
ply the absence of youthful within and
hilarity by grimaoes and grins, and ar
titicial vivacity. have sometimes seen
one of these reverend youths endeav-
oring to elevate his wintry passions into
something like love, by basking in the
sunshine of beauty; and it did remind
me of an old moth, attempting to fly
through q pane of glass toward light,
without ever approaching near enough
to warm itself, or scorch its wings.
Washington L,'ving.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
The African Slave Trade Vigorous

The African slave trade continues to
be in vigorous operation in Soudan. III
is, indeed, stated that no fewer than So
600 or $4,000 negroes are still annually
conveyed to the Turkish and Egyptian
ports of the Red Sea, where they are
disposed OF to dealers from all parts OF
the Sultan's dominion. Yet it is unques-
tionable that in 1879 Col. Gordon dealt
what promised to be death blow to the
slave trade in the Soudan. His Lieuten-
ant, Gessi Pasha, who has lately suffered
terrible hardsbips, fought and beat the
slave traders in pitched battle, in
which they, relying upon superior num-
beers, made the first attack. Gessi Pasha
inflicted "A crushing defeat upon the slave
traders, and liberated immense numbers
of slaves. If Col Gordon had been prop
erly supported by Yewfik Pasha, there
is reason to believe that the slave trade
would have been driven out of the Sou
dan. Since his departure his old enemies
have to a great extent regained the.G'
former influence, and have succeeded in
reyiving on q large scale the traffic IN
negroes. 1t is quite true that the traffic
can not be effectually suppressed until
domestic slavery is abolished in Egypt,
but vet Col Gordon's experience shows
that by the adoption Of a vigorous policy
the number of victims may be greatly
diminished, and the trade rendered both
hazardous and Improbable. London
NesDs
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
Solid Comfort.

81 don't see how I'd gis along without
Mary, nohow," Mrs. Butcher observed,
pausing 10 wipe the perspiration from
her aged features and put another ladle
of soft soap into the steaming suds,
while her daughters voice at the piano
could be distinctly recognized, floating
out from the adjoining parlor 81 don't
see how d git along without that gal,
nohow. Al'nys on these days, when l
hev the tiringest work, she jest picks
out her incest pieces, like Sweet rest by
and by and Mothers growing, old
and sings EN- fur me afore she goes ont
on the lawn to play croquet with the
other young FOLKS. faint every gal as
nd be 80 thoughtful, l kin tell you.
Now, most on 'em I'D jest bang away
with Jordan is hard road to travel,
or 'Whoop em up, Eliza Jane, but she
amt none o'that sort. She's pile o.
comfort to me-a pile O. comfort" and
Mrs. Butcher famed herself vigorously
with her soiled apron, preparatory to
running the clothes through the second
water. Toledo american.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
That Little Hatchet.

"Come heah, George Washington,
you black ape" exclaimed Rev. Amini-
dab Bledsoe, of the Austin Blue Light
Colored Tabernacle, to Sunday-school
scholar who had just removed big wad
of something or other from his mouth.
The boys trembling limbs carried him
into the immediate presence OF the irate
sheperd.
a. Yer was chewin' terbacker in de
house oh de Lawd."
81 owns right up, parson. l was
chawin' terbacker, but won't do so no
noah"
"George Washington, chawin' ter
hacker am bad enough, Lawd knows I;
but when yer has got SO shameless yer
don't eben try ter lie out ob it. hit am
time ter take yer i'll hand, so you won't
grow up and disgrace de fodder of his
country. Lean ober dat knee, George"
And for about ten minutes people living
several blocks off imagined their neigh
bors were preparing tough beefsteak for
dinner with an AK.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
Housekeeping Hereafter.

Housekeeping, as now conducted, Is
toe big Job for those who undertake to
do it--a fact practically realized In all
households. Not even the most favored
are free from danger of periodic break
down in the over-taxed machinery OF
domestic administration, and the COM
mon experience Is that the gearing runs
ANYTHING but smoothly at best The
one matter Of trouble with servants
is beo0ming such crying evil that 1t is
talked of whenever housekeepers meet,
and the public prints are burdened with
discussions of remedies and plans for
obtaining better "help." This agita-
ton will presently make plain that the
servant trouble lies too deep TO be
reached by changes an the personnel of
the service. 1t is not that cooks and
chambermaids are SO greatly at fault as
that too much is demanded from them.
The work to be done requires greater
intelligence and ability than can be in
duced to enter domestic service ut pres
ent.
Necessity commanding and oppor-
tunity inviting, an attempt to institute
better methods of housekeeping cannot
long be delayed. The centripetal force
of society, potent in commerce and arts,
will be permitted again to modify the
conduct OF household affairs acting, as
heretofore, by removing certain kinds
of work from the home, and max
ms, them the basis of new'business.
The kinds OF work to be tlansplanted
are those which bring dirt and litter into
the house, those which require and
which. produce heat, and those which
demand mans strength or an experts
skill. In plain words, the household is
10 be relieved of the heavy and gross
labors, and also the difficult and trying
operations connected with cooking,
washing, ironing, heating and cleaning.
hyy,,JSo 1fo,fbI,f
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09

The day alphabetically belongs to earth
we yield it without reluctance to care
and labor We toll, we drudge. we pant
we play the hack-horse we do thinef
smilingly from which We recoil in secret
we pass by sweet spots and rare faces
that our very heart yeasms for, without
betraying the effect it costs and thus
we drag through the twelve long hours,
disguised Glmost but glaHdened withal
that the mask will have an end, and the
tedious game be over, and or visor and
0lr weapons are laid aside. But the
night brings freedom and repose; its in
fi1ence falls cody and gratefully upon
the mind as well as the body; and when
drops the extinguisher upon the light
which glimmers upon the round, un-
touched pillow, we, at the s2Sne time,
put out a world of care and perplexities.
Leigh Hunt says: cit is a delicious
moment certainly, that of being well
nestled in bed, and feeling that you
shall drop gently to sleep. The good is
to come, not past; the limbs have Just
been tired enough to render the remain
ing in one posture delightful the labor
of the day is done. A gentle failure of
the perceptions comes creeping over one !:
the spirit of consciousness disengages
itself more and more, with slow and
hushing degrees, like mother detaching
her hand from her sleeping child the
mind seems TO have balmy Id over il,
bike the eye It's closing-more closing
It's closed. The mysterious spirit has
gone to make its airy rounds.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09

To what degree the heart is aided by
other forces is yet matter of investi-
cation. Probably there are several
forces assisting. The elasticity of the
arteries increases their carrying capaci-
ty. They are firm, elastic Tubes, which
expand under the pressure from each
heart contraction, and then by their
own elasticity contract and help the on
ward flow of the blood. In the smaller
arteries the flow loses the intermittent
character it possesses in the larger
arteries, and becomes steady stream.
The elasticity of the arteries serves pre-
cisely the same purpose as the air cham
Der OF any force-pump, that of eqlializ-
ing the flow, and so increasing the
amount delivered. The whole force is
derived from the heart; the arteries
cause the force to act continuously.
The veins are lax tubes somewhat
larger than TIE arteries, and capable of
holding all the blood of the body. They
convey the same amount of blood as the
latter, but more slowly. I'm the larger
veins, however, near the auricles, the
velocity may be 200 milimetres per
second. They are provided with valves
Which, OhCCtuhhy pACNChb bilO DlOOI iIOLl
flowing backward toward the heart.
Any compression, produced by muscu-
lar contraction or otherwise, will there
fore assist the forward flow of venous
blood. This is one explanation why ex-
ercise hastens the circulation. The
movement of the chest in breathing
probably aids the pulmonary circula-
ton, the blood, as we'll as the atmos-
phere, tending to fill the vacuum during
inspiration.
Physical capillary force is not gener-
ally regarded as an active force in the
circulation. But there is an admitted
force in the capillaries, resulting from
the attraction of the tissues for the
arterial blood, containing the required
oxygen and nutriment. "The vital con-
dition of the tissue becomes factor in
the maintenance of the circulation. 1t
is this force, primarily, which adapts
the amount OF blood to the varying
needs OF any organ the nervous system
regulates the supply 10y varying the
caliber of the vessels.
The force IN the capillaries, or some
other force. carries the blood after
death, from the arteries, where the heart
leaves it, into the veins. Finding the
arteries empty after death gave rise to
the idea that they conveyed air; whence
the name. 1t was this belief which
Harvey overthrow in l620.-Popular
Science MOcsthlu.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
The Land Of the Lotus.Eaters.

In their expedition against the rebel
Moslems OF North Africa, the French
have deseclated several places rendered
immortal by the songs of Homer and
Virgil. One OF the most important Il
these is the Island of Dierba. 1t lies III
the Gulf of Gabes, is considered the
most beautiful island in the Mediter-
ranean, and is the home of the de-
scendants of the Lotus-eaters, immor-
talized in the ODYSSEY, and who have
been the theme Of Tennyson's celebrated
composition. 1t was to the Lotus-eaters
that Ulysses of old, foot-sore. and weary,
made his way. 1t was the Lotus-eaters
who planned the destruction of that
celebrity by giving him and his compan-
ions the lotus to eat, for whoever tasted
that sweet fruit lost all desire to return
to his native country, but remained with
the Lotophagoi, feeding ON the lotus,
forgetful of return.
The present inhabitants of Djerba are
about $4,000 in number. They are
mainly farmers and shepherds, and like
the lotus eaters of old, for the most part
dwell i'll caves. Their creed is strange
IN Xture of Northumberland and Roman
Catholicism, due to the domination in
the sixteenth century, of the island by
the Spanish and Turks, respectively.
BY the latter the Lotus-eaters Of to-day
are known as the Kharedjites or CHS
matics. The lotus is still plentiful in
the island. 1t is of the size of wild
plum, of saffron color, and a sweetish
taste, and grows on prickly, branching
shrub. 1t is altogether unlike the cele-
brated Egyptian lotus, and must not be
confounded with the water lily of the
Nile, or lotus which is also used for food
A delicious liquor known in the Orient
as idgn,i, is made from it. The flavor
of the liqxor is not unlike that If the
renowned wines of Samos. To Western
nations the lotus tree itself is known as
the jujube tree, while the Arabs call it
the Seedrd.
To the French, or to any other people
capable of turning its fertility to good
account, Djerba viii be a most desirable
acquisition. 1t abounds in cochineal,
and several plants also celebrated for
the richness of the dye obtained from
them. Under good administration there
is no reason why the home of the Lotus
eaters should not regain its ancient fame
for its dyes, as well as for its fruit and
wine. Pliny the elder, the Roman his
torian, tells us that the purple of the
insuta lotophagitis rivaled that of state
ly Tyre herself. Cincinnati CONNER
ciuL.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
ROYAL Grit.

1t was Philip the Second of Spain who
said to his attendants, II wish to be
carried alive TO the place of my sepul-
cher" The procession conveying the
dying monarch left Madrid June 20,
1893, and occupied six days in travers-
ing the distance of only twenty-four
miles to the Escurial where the Imperial
tomb was situated. Philip had suffered
from govt for twenty years, and in the
last eighteen months of his life expe-
rienced untold agony. 1t assumed the
form of an unappeasable thirst and q
numerous condition of an intensely ma
lignant nature. 1t was even impossible
to turn his body from one side to the
other, or to change his clothing, and yet
amid all this suffering and pain he made
arrangements for his own burial, ordered
the coffin of his Royal father to be
opened so that he might be robed after
him in similar fashion, and finally di.
rected his own coffin to be placed at his
be,lside. He witnessed all these prepa-
rations with imperturbable calmness,
and before passing away requested that
his body be, Enclosed in the coffin rs soon
as death ensued, and that placed in a
leaden box.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
Weather Wisdom.

When you wish to know what the
weather is to be, go out and select the
smallest cloud you see. Keep your eye
upon it, and if it decreases and disap-
pears it shows state of the air which
is sure TO he followed by fine weather;
but if it increases in size, take your
great coat with you il you are going
from home, for falling weather is not far
off, The reason is this When the air
ia becoming charged with electricity you
will see every cloud attracting all lesser
ones toward it, until it gathers into
a shower: and, on the contrary, when
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09

THE Earl of Carnarvon says that edu-
catien in all its branches is now thrown
open to Englishwomen. The Archbish-
OPP of Canterbury says the attempt made
some time ago to throw ridicule on what
is called the higher education of women
has failed,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
Veteran Beaux.

/ beg leave here to give notice that
bv the following 1 mean no reflection
on old bachelors on tho contrary,
hold that, next to fine lady, the ne
Mus ultra, an old bachelor to be the
most charming being on earth. Inas-
mucl, as 10y living in "single blessed
ness he of course does just as he
pIeases. and, IL he has any genius, must
acquire n plentiful stock Of whims, and
oddities. aud whalebone habits. without
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
A Great Enterprise.

The Hop Btters Manufacturing Company is
one OF Rochester's greatest business enterprises.
Their Hop Btters have reached sale beyond
all precedent, having from their intrinsic value
found'their way into almost every household in
the land Graphic.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09

ivers, on the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard &
Co., New York. 1t il absolutely pure and
sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer
it to all others. Physicians have decided it su-
perior to any of the other oils in market
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09

The soft and silky appearance given to the
hair by the use of Carbolne, the natural hair
restorer and dressing, as now improved and per-
fected, is the subject of general remark by oil
who have witnessed its effects upon the human
head Sold by all dealers in drugs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09

For Headache, Constipation, Liver Complaint
and all bilious arrangements Of the blood, there
is no remedy as sure and safe as Eilert's Day
light Liver Pills They stand unrivalled in re-
moving bile, toning the stomach and in giving
healthy action TO the liver Sold by all druggists.