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SCIENCE OF CooKlNa BEEF.--A scientific
writer in the Ma,% Lane Erpress says !:
"The favor of beef is due to the juices, and
II during cooking these be allowed to escape
the beef loses much of its taste. Hence, in
broiling, il should from the outset be exposed
to bright, quick fire, which by causing the
superficial fibres to at once contract and
the albuminous juice near the surface to coag-
ulate leads to the plugging up of the surface
pores, and consequent retention of the juices.
Similarly, IN boiling, beef should be plunged
into almost boiling water. On the other
hand, in making beef tea, cold water is
poured on chopped beef and gradually heated
to draw the nutriment of the beef into the
water"
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POETRY
soRREL.

MuSing tonight on former years.
The war unto my eyes appears,
And mid its memories hopes and fears
My mind goes back to SoiTel.
That faithful war steed's now 40 more,
That me through danger safely bore,
Yea, through the raids and battles roar;
For dauntless was good sorrel.
When the war ended, his fine head
He laid upon earth's chilly bed,
And soon be siumbered With the dead:
And so breath left poor Sorrel
Why did he so lgnobly dles
Who had so oft heard bullets fly,
While shells burst through the sIlphurous sky
Ay, why did they spare Sorrelg
Stout horse he bore me DER the soil
On many weary march OF toll,
While the hot sun made the blood boil:
But through 1t all went Sorrel
He oft has chased guerrilla bands
Ger bitches wide and swampy lands,
And helped TO letter traitors hands;
For swift was my good Sorrel
He too, had charged with flying feet,
And Followed up the dire fetreat,
Where the rebles got so badly beat;
Ay you were there brave Sorrell
Poor horse your now at peace. The strife
ofman. no more affects your life,
That with all nobleness was rife;
And so good night, brave sorreli
Edward s. Dreamer.
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poured the scathing reproach- A
Christianity without Christ" But from
such, personally, we are sure Longfellow
was far Off His sacred ballads, and
those on religious themes Gods Acre,
Blind Bartimsas, Resignation, CArsstmas
Bells, Hymn for my Brothers Ordination,
and Old 50. Dagid's at Radnor-are fra
grant with the odor of the Gospel
Christless? Nay--the holy trust he pre-
dictated Of his brother, we may feel sure
was his own, also
20 holy trust, o endless sense of restt
Like the beloved John
To lay his head upo n the SAviour's breast,
And thus to journey on
Is Longfellow Americas Laureate ? A
playful and perhaps contemptuous de6ni-
ton of the Poet Laureate is, tie sue who
makes verses tor the queens nursery.
Education is Americas queen; the
schools, her nurseries. Who, as he, has
fulfilled that tasRp In editing his earlier
poems, he wrote" Some have found
their way into schools, and seem to be
successful That modestly stated only
the FIRST beginnings or what has become
vast success.
But the Laureate is the chosen and
crowned poet of the sovereign. The
people, sovereign in these United States,
have elected Longfellow and thousand
tokens of their affectionate loyalty and
reverence are his laurels. Did ever
Laureate before have his successive birth
days kept, with literary festivities, while
yet he lived, by tens of housands-widely
scattered over continent, who had never
seen his face ?
Not crowned alone, but enthroned, too,
was our Laureate. The children of
Cambridge on his seventy birth.
day, presented him a chair made from the
wood of the Village Blacksmith's Chest
nut Tree !; and thus in grand simplicity
he issues proclamation from that seat
Am Il king, that should call my own
This splendid ebon throne?
Or by what reason, or what right divine,
Can proclaim Ii mineP
Only, perhaps by right divine oil song
Itmay to me belong
Only because the spreading chestnut tree
ofold was sung by me.
And now some fragments of its branches bare,
Shaped stately chair,
Have by my hearthstone found Il home at last,
And whisper ofthe past
Only your loye and your remembrance could
Give llfs to this dead wood
And make these branches, leatess now so long,
Blossom again in song
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SHE HAD HER WAY.
Difficulties Encountered in Trying TO he In
Time for the Wedding.

The time appointed for the marriage cere-
mony in the church was three o'clocl; in
the afternoon. Borealis Brown, the bride
groom, and Aurora White, the bride, were
in close carriage ten blocks away at six
minutes before three.
I'VE shall get there right on time," said
lie, looking at his watch.
Now, it is dreadfully unfashionahle to get
to the church promptly, and Aurora would
have felt just like dropping through the
floor, don't You know if she had walked up
the aisle on time
Don't you think, my dear, it would be
better to be ten minutes later 2" said she,
leaning against him in kind of harmless
hug.
mo; pride myself on punetuality."
"Five minutes, then 2"
snow, my darling, don't coax"
"Just as you say
She put her hand carelessy on his should
er, and then let it drop slowly along down
over his coat to a small pocket set in at the
waist seam where ii fingered for a few sec
onds
You have the ring where you can find 1t
readily" she remarked, laying placidly back
in the seat. "There is nothing so awkward
as to tumble for the ring at the altar, you
know"
"Oh I've made sure on that point, as l
told you," he said confidentially. 81 slip
ped the ring right into this handy little peck
ct, where I-good Lord in heavenl"
What, Borealis--what ?"
"The ring is lost"
He thrust his fingers into the pocket
madly, again and again, but the ring surely
was not there. He made wild conjectures,
felt in all his other pockets, and concluded
ne must have left it at Auroras residence.
He ordered the coachman to turn about.
When they had gone back almost to the
house public clock struck three.
What is that ?" said Aurora, pointing to
the bottom of the carriage.
The ring lay glittering in corner.
81 must have dropped it," said Borealis,
picking it up, "but swear looked in that
very spot two minutes ago."
He had looked there, as matter of fact,
just before Aurora threw the ring down.
"Well" he remarked, looking at his
watch again, you viii have your way after
all. We can't get to the church before ten
minutes late, anyhow"
ITO be sure"
Acute presence of mind is characteristic
Of brides. They may blush, but they know
what they are about Their eyes may be
dim with tears but they can see a misplaced
thread in their dress. Two blocks from the
church Aurora expressed fear that she was
pale Ms n ghost.
Say as fair as alabaster," he handsomely
suggested
"Now my dear" she rctorted, this is
no time for compliments. Is there the least
bit of color in my face?'
"Well, no, but
g / must look CHASTITY"
"Would You like to blush as you go In p
"Yes"
He threw his arms around her, drew her
TO his breast with the grip of q wrestler and
kissed her loud and long. He was through
with it just MS the carriage door was opened
by an usher and she walked into church
with satisfactory amount of pink on her
checks.
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Wicked men stumble over straws in the
way to heaven, but climb..oyer hills in the
way Of destruction.
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Hope is like the wing of an angel, soar
ing up to the throne of God.
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Should you ask me, whence these stories
Whence these legends and traditions
With the odours Of the forest,
With the dew and damp o meadows,
With the curling smoke of wigwams
With the rushing Of great rivers,
With their frequent repetitions,
And their wild Feverberations
As of thunder in the mountains?
| should answer, should tell you,
From the forests and the prairies,
From the great lakes of the Northland
From the land OF the Ojibways,
From the land of the Dacotabs
From the mountains, moors, and fen lands
Where the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah,
Feeds among the reeds and PUSHES
repeat them as / heard them,
From the lips of Nawaddaha,
The musician The sweet-singern
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With him, we are listening to the
g Footsteps of Angels

20, though oft depressed and lonely
All my fears are laid aside
III but remember only
Such as these have lived and died."
1t is only in short snatches that have
doled out to you these fragments of his
heart songs. But even these serve to
assure us that his heart beat in unison
with our own, with all humanity's.
There is a still more sacred recess of
his soul shall we enter it? In name he
stood associated with a religious body,
upon whose creed John Randolph once
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Catlin's Gallery Of painted Portrait,
and Longfellow' Hiawatha, are the two
enduring monuments of the vanishing
Race of Red Men.
Evangeline is a story that never wearies,
of faithful love, of hard fate, of strange
vicissitudes its interest heightened by
the graphic painting of unfamiliar scenery,
aud the impressive narration of touching
incident.
Not the least remarkable thing belong
ing to this poem is the fact that it has
reconciled generation of English
scholars to the supposed impracticable
hexameter, and charmed myriads of
readers despite the difficulty of the I'M
usual verse. Bryant attempted the hexa-
meter, when he began his translation of
Homer, bat soon abandoned it for the
indigenous blank-verse. Yet he said, Of
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Character would be impossible where
there is no temptation.
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Vide, Century Magazine, March, 1882, to which
am indebted for several sentences following
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IHtH q TusII, anu TIIU .-LHt IOTIItbk
Of the Fathers breast is taken by storm
and there is the sweet intercourse of q
domestic paradise.
The day is DONE" and the poet bids,
Come read to me some poem
Some simple and beautiful lay
That shall soothe this restless feeling,
And Danish the thoughts o day.
And the night shall be filled with music
And the cares that infcst the day,
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away"
Then, the forms of the departed
Enter at the open door;
The beloved. the true-hearted,
Come TO visit him once moren
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-21
BY TELEGRAPH.
MAINE.
THE BOSTON 81 MAINE DISASTER.
Testimony of Roadmaster Smith.

GREAT FALLS, N. H, Jan. 20-The jury in
the Boston & Maine disaster case at Wells met
O. Great Falls this forenoon to take Roadmas-
ter Edward A. Smiths testimony. His testi-
mony was substantially as follows:
Am 81 years old; for thirty years have been
superintendent of construction on the eastern
division; was in the baggage car and the
train was going from thirty-fve to forty miles
per hour; the train was late; / sat in chair in
about the centre of the car, and the whole al
fair was done very quick; | think the forward
part of the car go. over the bridge and hind
end was off the track; l felt very sudden
shock and then was insensible for some time; /
neither heard nor felt any settling till We were
nearly off the bridge; think the forward end
of the Car went over the bridge all right; the
bridge was built on ausangle of about 6Oo; al
terations have been made in it since building,
the first four or five. years ago by placing
wrought iron saddles on the top of the upper
cord, and new timbers and guard rails have
since been added; the sleepers were placed
same as on the Mitchell bridge, eight inches
apart and six and a half inches thick; my
opinion is that bridge built on an angle like
this would not be so strong as one built square
across; have always fell safe while crossing
this bridge and have considered it sound; did
not feel any unusual jumping of the car till we
struck the bridge; / knew where we were; am
satisfied We were on the bridge; when an axle
ufoahS IL AnoSb always UhkoWo oho O1Ao .AoAaA
rail; the bridge was tested on the 18th OF No
vember with zone engine of thirty-hye tons,
and then detected no vibration.
Commissioner Anderson was present at this
session. G. G. Yeaton was also in attendance.
Shooting Accident at st. Stephens.
CALAIS, Jan. 20.-Edward Mills, truckman
in St. Stephen, N. B., shot his wife, probably
fatally, last night. He claims that while
handling revolver it accidentally went off
1t is rumored that they had quarrelled lately
No action has been taken by the authorities.
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in this mode of administering Justice than in
any other. So long as juries are honest 1t does
not require that you should have read Kent or
Blackstone. 1t requires that you should nave
honest hearts and clear heads, and above all,
that you should be fearless to find for the right
regardless of what may come; regardless
whether your fellew men may approve 1t or
not. This is what L shall expect
of you, gentlemen, and believe you will do It,
leave the case with you,gentlemen, thanking
you for your kind attention"
Some applause followed the conclusion Oh
Mr.. Scoville's speech, which was promptly
checked by the court. Col. Corkhill stated on
behalf of the prosecution that he would With
draw all objections to Guiteau's addressing the
Jury; that the trial had been long and expen-
sive and he did not desire to give any emporium
ity for an objection upon which to found
demand for new trial.
Guiteau remarked he appreciated this unex-
pected courtesy of Mr.. Corkhill.
Judge Cox stated he had decided to allow
the prisoner to speak.
Gniteau-I shall deliver to the jury my
speech which has been published in all the
newspapers. I hall want about two hours,
your honor; I speak rapidly.
After some consultation between the court
and counsel, as Guiteau was not prepared 10
speak to-day, the court adjourned till to-mor-
row.
The Assassin Getting Savage
AS Guiteau was being taken out of the court
room at recess, he stopped to speak to Mr..
Scoville when Bailiff Tall attempted to move
him along. Guiteau turned angrily and said
to Tall "Behave yourself" "Come, come
said Tall, impatiently. trying to push the
prisoner. "Let me alone" shouted Guiteau.
s'Mind your own business" Tall having ap-
piled some pressure to Guiteau the latter with
his manacled hands struck the officer in the
breast, when he was at once seized by the OIL.
GERS and turned out of the court room.
Judge Porter Feeble.
Judge Porter is quite feeble and probably
will be unable to speak before Monday, and ii
is probable, therefore, the court will adjourn at
noon tomorrow until Monday.
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California Mining stocks.
(By Telegraph.)
FOR THE WEEK ENDING Jan. 10


Our quotations are wholesale prices for fare ioti
and iobbing lots command an advance on our he
ures.
Georges Codfsh-We quote $5s4 qtl for large
and $40 for medium; Bank $4s4 for large and "
60S4i2 for medium dry cured Bank at $4N @Sb
for large and 1884 for medium. Shore Codnsh
picked cured, SIS for large and 81 for medium
Bav trawl S434 ass for large; N. S. Shore $51aa
Sc; Newfoundland $51a.
Cusk firm at 81, and Hake and Haddock at Up W
otl Pollock at 1924 @$3; English do $3M 9$3zs
Boneless and prepared fish 41a@51ac % fb fol-
Hake and Cusk to 51s@8 for best Goldfish. Smoked
Halibut at lO1ac ~ fb. Smoked Salmon lSc; Scaled
Herring 18c 99 box; No at l6c; tucks l5c. BOAT
ers SOC ~ hundred.
and SO for 3s in straight lots. Nova Scotias SIG
SIS for Is, SS1a@l0 for 2s, $71stay7 for 3s.
Market Fish--We quote steak Cod at 30 W ewt
market and Haddock S21a Tongues l0c W fb.
Frozen Herring-ln abundant supply and prices
have fallen to Toe 4s hundred
Fresh Halibut-Sales Tuesday at 91a and 7c 49 II
for white and gray.
Trout S14 ID Dbl; Swordfsh at $6@7; Goldfish at
SIS, Haddock at $31a, Halbut Heads $3ze, Hall
but Fins SO Dbl, Fins and Napes at 81 12. Tongues
So Tongues and Sounds at $40; Alewives at S3G
S3A; Halifax Salmon $22 for No Is; $40 for s;
California do at SI5; Shad SO.
Pure Medicine Oil at soc % gal, crude do at GOO;
Blacklist Oil 55c; Cod do 35c; Shore do at 33c;Por-
gle do 30c. 90
Porgie scrap, S124Y ton; Fish do So; Liver do 3d.
Fish Skins SIS; Liyers Boo " bucket
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WASHINGTON.
The Navigation Laws

4u6 NdvlRdblOu A1WS'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O-The House Commit
tee on Commerce to-day heard arguments by
John Roach OF New York, VIM. Rogers of
Maine and several others in behalf of the en-
actment of certain amendments to the naviga-
ton laws.
Relating to National BANKS.
The House Banking Committee to-day adopt
ed Mr.. Dingleys resolution favoring the con-
tinuauce of the national banking system by a
vote of 8 to 2. The Grape BILL to enable ma
tional banking associations to extend their cor
porative existence, was referred to sub COM
mittee
The Jeanette search.
The Secretary of the Navy has just received
the following telegram from Engineer Mel
vile, of the last Arctic exploring steamer
Jeanette:
IRKUTsK, Jan IS.
Melville, Danenhower and eleven men are
all we'll Melville has returned to the Arctic
Ocean. Found log books, instruments and
four records left by belong. No tidings of the
second cutter, Lieut.. Chipp Search will be
continued during the winter by the Cossack
commandment of Belua and Jokutsk under the
direction of Gen. Tschernieff. Word from
Kolyma river states that no boat had arrived to
date Nov. 14th). 1 am acquainted with the
country everywhere. Delong and party Ie-
the search in March, Danenhower and nine
men to return to the United States. Danen-
hower's sight has been partially recovered.
The Small Pox Epidemic.
The executive committee of the board of
health this afternoon declared a small pox cpl
demic In the United States, and an order was
made directing the inspection of several of the
most important quarantine stations in the
country In order to determine if the rules and
regulations Of the board are being properly en-
forced.
Inspection of Steam Vessels.
WASHINGTON, Jan. COG. M. Toner, Super
vising Inspector of steam vessels for the second
district, which embraces the New England
coast, New York city and Philadelphia, made
to the board supervising inspectors to-day a
report showing the results of the official in
spection in his district during the past year. as
follows: Total amount of Steam vessels in
spected, 1,753; total officers licensed, 1858.
total number of passengers carried on these
vessels, S42 lc6, 1888; total number Of lives lost,
g both suicides, Forty per cent. of the total
tonnage of the United States, thirty per cent.
of all licensed officers and more than one-third
of the whole inspection work OF the United
States are embraced within the limits of this
district
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SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 81.
Magazine Notices.

The number of The Living Age for the week
ending January 21st, has the following note
worthy table of contents: A Page of Diplo-
matte History. by G. Blennerhassett, Fort
nightly Review; The Freres, by Mrs. Alexan-
der, author of The Wooing OF etc., Temple
Bar; Dean Stanley as Spiritual Teacher and
Theologian, Nineteenth Century; Yule Time
in Shetland, by an Old Shetander, Cham ber's
journal; The Adventures of "a War Core
spondent, Blackwood's Magazine; Robin, by
Mrs. Parr, anihor of Adam and Eve, ETC.,
Temple Bar; A Gracious Ploughine, ST.
James Gazette; The Constituents of "Pleas-
antness," and Bad Handwriting and Stupid
Readers, Spectator; and the usual amount of
select poetry. This is the third weekly num-
Der of the new volume. New subscribers can
begin with the volume.
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MEMORANDA.

Sch Frank Pierce, which has been lying ashore Oh
the rocks at Pumpkin Knob since Jan 4, was hauled
off Goth by the tug w H Scott and placed on Cape
Elizabeth fats, full of water One mast is gone
some deck planks started, keelson broken, and bot
tom chafed. The hull is sound throughout and car
be repaired for few hundred dollars. Capt Grant
paid $50 for the wreck as it lay ashore.
The new ship Gen Knox, Capt Henry, which ar
rived at Norfolk 10th inst from Thomaston, was Out
in the gale of Dec 81. Capt Henry states tbat the
wind commenced to blow from NE. increasiD to q
gale and then hurricane; the wind suddenly shift
ing struck the snip on the beam and in stacking
the weather braces they got adrift and the yards
went fore and aft driving the ship into the trough
of the sea. The man at the wheel was thrown ovel
and severely injured. The crew suffered severely
from cold and several of them were frost bitten.
boy from Waldoboro fell from. the upper topsai
yard to the deck. but was notyhurt beyonn some
light bruises.
Barque Rachel of Portland. before reported OF
Avalo reef, struck Dec 20, during heavy weather
and strong current. She was got off badly dam,
aged the keel being broken in two places, metal al
torn off and hull much broken. Would be condemn
ed and sold. Part of cargo saved.
Barque Elverton, from Baltimore for Portland
which put back to Hampton Roads leaky, has beer
surveyed and the surveyors recommend that about
SO tons coal be discharged and sold and topsidei
calked where necessary
Sch Emma Crosby Crosby, from Calais for New
York, put into Dutch island Harbor 18th and re
ports when off Portland, in strong wind and cross
sea- the ibboom broke short off at the bowsprit cap
carrying away foretopmast and head gear.
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THE STAR ROUTE CASES.
A Clever Game Played by the Govern
ment.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-The principal cause
of delay in the trial of the straw bond Star
Route cases thus far has arisen from the de-
fence insisting upon the Identification of every
bid and contract introduced as evidence. The
prosecution by a clever manoevre have had all
these papers examined and identified by Nota-
~ Webster, who originally witnessed them,
and this morning created sensation in court
by calling Mr.. Webster and Mr.. Blackman to
the stand and proving the papers in bulk.
Strong objections were made by the defence
to this action, but were overruled by the court.
The defencs denounced this private examina-
tion as "Stsr Chamber proceedings" and man-
ifested much feeling on the subject. The
court said the defence should have the privil-
eye of examining these papers, and Mr.. Bliss
suggested the examination be conducted in the
post-office department. The Identification of
bids in bulk was then resumed. At the con-
clusioa of this examination A. M. ellison,
special attorney for the United States, testified
70 a conversation between himself and Cabell
wherein the latter acknowledged his bondsmen
were of no stability, and he was partner with
Boone in the mail carrying business. He also
said he knew nothing of Cabell performance
Of the service on his routes. The defence re-
fused to examine the papers separately, and
the court admitted them as evidence and adj
iourned till Tuesday.
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MINOR TEL, EGRAMs.

r. G. Dun & Co., of New York, report bust
ness failures of the past seven days at IT. The
Eastern States had IL.
Last evening four masked robbers entered
the house of Joseph Hitler, a farmer residing
near Georgetown, O., bound the whole family
hand and foot and got away with $4,000.
Deacon Ellis, Of the Rumford Congregation
al church, Providence, R. L., is suffering from
lockjaw caused from cutting his hand while
opening bottle of communion wine.
Seventeen new cases of small pox were re-
ported at Pttsburg, Pa, and thirteen at Alleg-
gany City yesterday.