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The Portland daily press., 1882-02-03
SPECIAL R1EETING

Franklin Extension silver Mining 60.
A SPECIAL MEETING of the stock holders Of
"A the Franklin Extension Silver Mining Co.,
will be held at the Office Of the Secretary, No 50 Elk
change St.. Portland Me-, on Friday, the tenth day
of February, A. D. 1882, to act upon the following
articles:
1. To determine whether the stockholders will
vote sell the whole any part Of the property Of
the corporation and to take such measures as may
be necessary therefor.
Q. To take such action as may be deemed best
for the purpose of closing up the business Of tho
company and the abandonment of its organization.
BY order Of the Board of Directors,
ARD0N w. C0OMBS, Secretary:
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The Portland daily press., 1882-02-03

Never interrupt any conversation with
hacking Cough; it creates bad impression.
Better invest quarter of dollar in bottle
of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup and cure it,
The Portland daily press., 1882-02-03

List Of Patents.
Weekly list of patents granted to resi-
dents of Maine, dated Jan. S1st, 1882 Re-
ported for the Press by @. e. Foster,
Patent Solicitor. 500 18th street, Washington
ID. c.:
253047-David W. Hersey, Pembroke, win
dow screen.
252,8SO-scott D. Jordan. Cape Elizabeth,
attaching buttons.
The Portland daily press., 1882-02-03
NOTICE.

TUyHERE will be meeting of the Portland labor
Picking and Shovelieg and all kinds of labor, at
the Portland 'Longshoremen's Hall. WEDNES-
DAY and THURSDAY, Feb I'd and Cd, at 7.30 o.
clock p. M. All are invited to attend. feb1 DIT
The Portland daily press., 1882-02-03
New Gazetteer of Maine |!

AGENTS wANTEDl Exclusive territory, with
no competition, and book which every citizen OF
the State should possess worthy the SPECIAL NO
TICE of OLD B00KMEN, and a Splendid Opportu-
nifty for beginners sells at sight. Now isy oppor
tunity to MAKE MONEY, because everybody needs
the book; it supplies real want. One agent has
sold 200 in four weeks. LADIES as well as GEN
TLEMEN succeed. Address at once, B. u. Rus
SILL, Publisher, 81 Cornhill, Boston, Mass.
JAM d&wlm"
The Portland daily press., 1882-02-03
HAYDN ASSOCIATION.

TElHE Annual meeting of the Haydn Association
4 for the choice Of officers, and such other bus
mess as may legally come before it, will be held at
Union Hall, on FRIDAY EVENING, February 10,
at 71s o'clock. prompt and full attendance is
requested.
feb1 dtd FRED II. GLOVES, Sec'y.
The Portland daily press., 1882-02-03

He Makes Full Confession of His Crime.
The Portland daily press., 1882-02-03
Proposed Municipal Reform.

vyyHE Committee appointed at meeting of citi-
zens of Deering in March last to consider and
report upon measures for improvement in town
management, will be in session at LEWIS HALL,
Woodford's. on SATURDAY EVENING, Feb. 4th,
commencing at u O'Clock, when they will be
gratiied to hear from citizens interested in the sub
ed improvements.
Per order Of Committee.
F. o. BAILEY, Chairman.
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The Portland daily press., 1882-02-03
WI. G.. WI. Association.

a STATED MEETING of the Maine Charitable
~ Mechanics Association, will be held in the
Library Room, Mechanics Building, Thursday. even
ing Feb. %, at 7.30 o'clock.
r. B. SWIFT.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-27
The Credit System.

Howis it that the business of the coun-
try is done SO much upon the credit sys-
temp The custom of buying and selling
on time involves, when applied to the
aggregate business of this or any other
country, vast expenditures, of money,
both in the way of keeping and stating
accounts and in the matter of lost debts.
both of which are matters of absolute ex-
pense. and must be made good by the
remnant or good business which may be
done. Take, for instance, the retail
store, where goods are sold to A, B and
G for cash, there being in every COM
munitY noble few who pay as they go,
whose names are upon no ones books,
who live within their income and are
content to seem just what they are. The
store also sells to all the rest of the alpha
bet on time, for that is about the proper
zion which the cash customers sustain to
the credit customers in numbers. These
accounts, through a complicated but
thorough system of statesmen, memoran-
da, cash boys cashier and bookkeeper,
are daily recorded for the information of
the proprietor, and by means of persist
INV SOiAOSOoio diO w % extent
eventually wrung out of the tardy debt
ors. A large number of them are never
collected at all. Those who do pay, to-
gether with A, B and G, who paid when
they bought. are obliged, in the very
nature of business, to make good every
loss that has occurred on account OF
credit being given to irresponsible and
designing persons; and not only this, but
they are obliged to make goodto the pro-
prietors the interest on the money loaned
in the form of open accounts for thirty.
sixty or ninety days, or even year, as
his customers may be prompt or dilatory
in their payments.
The business man, if he is able, in spite
of the sharp competition into which he
is brought, to maintain prices at such
figures as will cover all his losses. hal
ances his books at the end of the wear.
writes off his bad debts into profit and
loss, and smiles complacentiy at the
balance in his favor. If, however. by
unexpected changes in the markets. by
extraordinary competition in trade. he Is
obliged to push his business by REDUCING
prices to something near the cost of his
goods. and the cost of handling, a very
little more than which would suffice
under strictly cash system, he finds. Al
the end of the year, that, while he has
sold nothing for less than 1t cost him,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-27
The Summit Of the Earth,

Adolphus Schlaglntweit, the immortal
though unpronounceable explorer of
central Asia, calls the highlands of
Pamir 't'die Welt Zinne'' the, roof of the
world. On the road from Puniaub to
Yarkand four passes have to be crossed
that are higher than 1880 feet, and for
distance of $50 miles the hating
ground is not below Pixies Peak. On
the eastern plateau of the Beloor-Dagh
there is shelter house near cliff from
whose summit the main chain of the
Himalayas with all its view from the
highlands IF Lassa to the sources of the
Indus, while in the west the head waters
of the OXus and Jaxartes can be traced
to the borders of Cabool, where the
peaks of the Hindoo- Koosh lift their
crests of everlasting snow. In spring
the echo of the avalanches resembles the
boom Of continuous thunder, and in mid
winter, when the storm winds sweeps
the table land, whirling pillars of snow
scud along the ridges, and often seem to
dance together like specters in their flut-
tering winding sheets. Our LAND of
the Sky in the southern Alleghenies
must be mere. piazza, compared with
that top roof Of the earth. Popular
Science MOnthty. u itr.are.o .-- .u.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-27
An Indoor Game.

This being game of mystery, 1t is,
OF course, necessary that it should be
unknown to, at any rate, few of the
company-the more the better. One of
the gentlemen well acquainted with the
game undertakes to represent Esop.
In order to do so more eifectually. he
may put a cushion or pillow under his
coat to initiate hump, provide himself
with stick for crutch, make false
nose and put patch over one eye.
The rest of the company must then
each assume the name of some subject
of the animal kingdom-a bird, beast,
or ashland having done this, must
prepare themselves to listen to the
words of their great master.
Limping into their midst, Esop then
tells them that the wrath of the great
god Jupiter has been aroused. and as
the cause of a calamity so terrible must
be that one or more of them have been
committing some crime or other, he is
anxious to discover without further de-
lay who are the guilty subjects. 81
shall, therefore," continues he, "ques-
ton you closely all round, and | shall
expect you every one to give me truth
full answers" He then fixes his mind
upon a certain letter-for instance, o.
and begins: Mr.. Lion, as you are the
king of beasts, sincerely hope you have
done nothing derogatory to your high
position; still, as it is absolutely neces-
sary that you should be examined with
the rest of your friends, will you please
tell me what food you have eaten late
Typ" Should the lion have eaten lamb,
sheep, tiger, bear, or any other dainty
that is spelled without the letter o, he is
acquitted as innocent; but should he
have eaten a leopard, goose, fox. or
any other creature in the name of which
the letter o occurs, he is pronounced
by Esop to be deserving of punishment
and is therefore sentenced to pay
forfeit. ..t-...
The other animals, in turn, then I'M
dergo similar examination, during
which each one must remember that IN
naming his prey he must conhne HIM
self to such food as is suited to the species
he has adopted. The game may be
carried on for any length of time, OF
until all have discovered the secret in it
There is no fear of the interest flag.
ging so long as even only one of the
company is still unable to solve the
Observation-Disclosures Young People.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-27
The Prosperity Of France.

The extraordinary charges imposed on
the French National Treasury by the
German war amounted, including the
indemnity of five mil'iards of
francs, to the sum of IL, All, 66l, 666f.,
or nearly 4460, 100000. This amount is
exclusive, not only OF private losses, but
of war expenses borne by the communes.
1t includes, however, the ALLEGATION of
26O, 900, 00Of. to towns and departments
to repair a portion of the damage caused
by the war; of 26. 900, 000f. to repair the
damage caused by the corps of engineers
in destruction for defensive purposes of
Ice, 900, 0OOf. for the reprovisioning of
Paris; of $4,000, 000f. for subterranean
telegraph lines, and of 2,696,000, 000f.,
called the compte de liquidation, devoted
to the reconstruction of Notifications, of
ornaments, and of military provision
ment. In addition to bearing this enor-
nous load, the Treasury had to repay to
the Bank of France the loan OF $780,
O00, OO0f. contracted in 1870 and 1871.
The extraordinary resources created
since 1876 to meet this unprecedented
demand have been as follows: a. An
increase of the consolidated debt,
amounting, as the balance of four sepa-
rate loans, conversions, and sinking
fund, to 6,527, 900, 000f.; an increase of
terminable debt, under twenty separate
heads, to the amount Of 1920, 900, 000f.,
and (3) alterations of the national capt.
tai to the amount of III, 000,0OOf. The
total amount of extraordinary resources
thus created amount to 1888, 620, 537f.,
being 1873, 041, 1927. less than the
charges of the war as before stated.
And yet not only is the Bank OF France
repaid and the compile de liquidation
closed, but the decouUerts dr. treSor, a
floating debt, which on January l, 1870,
stood at 725. 995, 055f., were reduced, on
January l, 1880, to 636, 565, 7O4f., or by
SO, 429, 351f.; showing gross reduction
of debt, after defraying the whole ex-
penditure, of more than 66,000,0 900.
Nor has the growing wealth OF France
been shown only by restoration OF her
military defense and by reduction of
consolidated and floating debt. In 1879
and 1880 successive reductions OF taxa
ton were effected, amounting in all to
nearly 222, OO0,000f The ordinary ex-
penses of the budget. which in 1879 stood
at 1900, 900, 000f, have risen in 1882 to
1854, 900, 000f. Thus between the budg-
ct of 1880 and that of 1882 is differ
ence in diminution of receipts OF 222,-
000,000f., and the increase of expense OF
154, 000,000f making together the large
sum of SIG, 900, 000f.-FrdSeTS Maya
zine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-27

f4a s
Bass-fishing, after the best approved
methods of angling, is about, the only
available, piscatorial sport left for the
Western disciple of Walton, unless he
have unlimited leisure and means. Bass
fishing ought TO mean fy-fishing. The
time is past when impaling live min
now on hook can be called q legitimate
means Of enlightened sport. IL would
seem to any ordinary mind not precisely
humane TO capture little sinner or spot
tail and deliberately thrust barbed
hook through its body in such manner
as TO make it suffer che longest possible
agony, for the sake of attracting and
killing good, heavy bass. '...-
OF course angling means killing fish
for sport primarily and for the table
secondsrily; but torturing minnow and
killing o fish are not necessarily one and
the same thing. Nor can the argument
that live bait is better and more killing
than the fly quite satisfy the healthy con-
science. However, a sermon on fishing
morals might well be postponed till after
the bass season is over. Nodoubt il the fly
fail US we shall try the minnow, even il
the latter do not chance to be our first
lure. Let US examine our rods and reel:
that have been slowed away all winter
in dark corner. Let us be determined
to experiment with flies this season ir
order TO reducing bass-angling to pref
ty aud absorbing recreation like trout
angling. New fiies were tried last sea
son with some good results. In clea
brook or rivulet a red-winged. gray
bodied, rather large fly killed q humble
of very fine bass. Late in July yellow
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-27

But saw q magical little machine
not long ago, bite off little piece of
steel wire, chew it moment. and then
spit it out formed into perfect hook.
1t would toss out these little hooks
every half second, the different ma
chimes making the different sizes.
There are eight steps in the making
of tish-hook by the machines | saw
The boy who tended one of them
snatched specimens from the machine
as they were passing through, and
showed me how each stroke of the little
chisels and hammers added to the bit
of wire that went in, until it came out a
finished hook and ready to fish with.
though probably the most fastidious fish
wouldn't touch it because it hadn't vet
been polished.
The curious little machines would first
nip off bits of wire; another stroke of
the machine, and the bit of wire had a
little loop in one end. The next half
second the wire had hack in it near
the other end. Then came little
hammer-stroke which tlattened out the
hacked end. Then a little chisel shaved
this fiattened end into point. And
last of all, it receives one crook. and
drops, perfectly formed hook, into the
little bucket, having been, only four
seconds before, nothing but an inch or
more of steel wire on reel.
There are two ways of finishing these
hooks. Either they are iapanned."
which gives them the black finish which
is the most common one, or they are
finished with that fine blue that is fire.
quently put upon swords and cutlery.
1t is done by heating them in furnace
till they come to a 'cherry-red" as the
workmen call it, and then they are
poured into bucket of oil and left to
cool.
After finishing, they are taken up to
the deft-fngered girls, who rapidly
count them by hooking them over q
piece of coarse wire, and throwing out
at the same time the imperfect ones.
Then they pack them in neat boxes,
and they are stacked up ready for mar
ket.
But suppose this is only the tamest
part of the history of these murderous
little objects. How many of them do
you suppose will ever hook fish? May
be one in q hundred. Perhaps not one
in five hundred. How many of them
will slumber, the sport of the fishes, i'm
beded in some old log at the bottom of
some pool orriver where they have stuck
and stuck, though tugged at and
twitched at by the luckless little boy
who hasn't caught anything yet, and
who hasn't another to fasten on in their
place! How many weary miles they
must go, some of them, with hungry,
wet, tired little fellows (and perhaps
big fellows, too), innocent of any fish,
and in having no bites save from mos.
quitoes. But here and there one shall
thrust point and barb into some fish who
with more appetite than discretion has
failed to see the trap set for him, and
out and up into the air has rushed, 'his
silver armor flashing useless in the sum-"
to make supper for the lucky fisher
man. Wide Quake.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-27
Fish.HOOks.

Boys, how long do you suppose 1t
would take you to make respectable
fish-hookp What do you suppose 1t
would cost you to have skilled work.
man make you one as good as you can
buy for pennYe
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-27

The subscription for the benefit Of
Mrs. Jesse James will probably be a
pleasant thing. The people OF Missouri
will carry this affair through unaided,
strangers who formerly passed through
the State having subscribed long enough
for the support Of the family
Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-27

The municipal government Of Paris
has signed the rat contract for this year
They give SOU head for every rat
killed. If Chicago were to do that she
would Ego broke. Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-27

A morbid citizen of ST. Louis, afflict-
ed with an ardent desire to possess tho
two horses which lately belonged to
Jesse James, was the victim OF rather
mean but amusing joke recently. Some
body who knew his wish shipped to him
a couple of WORKOUT street-car horses,
for which he cheerfully paid fancy
price. The poor beasts, in the course
of their arduous lives, had encountered
more than their fair share of the sling
and arrows of outrageous fortune, and
were in a sorry condition when they
reached ST. Louis. But they were
beautiful in the eyes of their new own
er, and he exulted exceedingly over his
purchase until some sympathetic friend
informed him that he had made fool
Of himself. Chicago Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-27

In introducing Miss Ella Dietz, an
actress who read an article on 1.-The
Work Of an Actor in New York the
other evening. Rev. Robert Collyer said
that there was an unreasonable antipa-
thy between the church and the stage,
which he hoped to see done away with
SO far as he was concerned, he went TO
the theater whenever he could find TINA
to do son Y. Herald
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-27
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THE KINGS FATAL TOUCH.

Heard you, o little children,
This wonderful story told .t.#
OF the Phrygian King whose fatal touch
Turned everything to gold2
In great, dim, dreary chamber,
Beneath the palace floor,
He counted his treasures of glitterin9 coin,
And he always longed for more.
When the clouds in the blaze Of sunset
Burned flaming fold on fold,
He thought how fine thing 'twould be
Were they but real Roldl
And when his dear little daughter.
The child he loved 30 well, - o.. .
Came bringing in from the pleasant fields
The yellow asphodel, ..a.
buttercups from the meadow,
Or dandelions gay, .
King Midas would look ct the blossoms sweet,
And she would hear him say:
If only the flowers were really
Golden as they appear,
Iwere worth your while to gather them,
My little daughter dearr
One day in the dim, drear chamber,
AS counted his treasure Ger,
a sunbeam slipped through chipk in the
And quivered down to the floor.
"Would 1t were gold" he muttered
THAT broad, bright yellow BARI
Suddenly stood in its mellow light
A Figure bright as star.
Young and ruddy and glorious,
With face as fresh as the day,
With winged cap and winged heels,
And eyes both wise and gay.
o have your wish, King Midas"
heave ly voice begun,
Like q sweet notes of the morning,
Braided and blended in one.
" And when to-morrow's sunrise
Wakes you with rosy fire,
All things you touch shall turn to gold,
Even as you desire"
King Midas slept The morning
At last stole up the sky,
And woke him, full Of eagerness.
The wondrous spell to try.
And 10! the beds fine draperies
OF linen fair and cool,
OF quilted satin and cobweb lace,
And blankets of snowy wool,
All had been changed with the suns first ray
To marvellous cloth of gold,
That rippled and shmmered US soft as silk
In many gorgeous fold.
But all this splendor weighed 80 much
Twas irksome to the King
And up he sprang to try at once
The touch on every thing.
The heavy tassel that he grasped
Magnificent became,
And hung by the purple curtain rlch
Like "a glowing mass of flame.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-08-21

In view of the fact that the late repub-
lican county convention was called With
out suitable notice, and at an inopportune
season of the year, preventing general
attendance of farmers and other citizens,
and fair discussion relative to measures
and candidates; and in view of the fact
that there is a general and widespread
dissatisfaction as to the standing and
character of some of the nominees Of that
convention, and their positions regarding
certain issues of vast Importance to the
people of the county, it has been thought
advisable by large number Of petition
ers in nearly all the towns Of the county
to call a peoples convention, that the is
sues involved be more fully discussed,
and such men put in nomination as shall
best reflect the moral and enlightened
sentiment of the county, and as are in
hearty accord with the mass of the people
relative to the new tax law, the prohib-
itory law and the proposed constitutional
amendment relating thereto.
Therefore, in accord with these senti-
ments, all persons interested are request
ed to meet in mass convention, at Iras-
burgh on Wednesday, Aug. 80, at 10
O'Clock a. m. to take such action as shall
be deemed proper and for the highest
good of the county. MANY. PETITIONERS.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-08-21
A SURPRISE.

In a political sense the state of
Kansas is a surprise. The child of
strife and bloodshed, it has strided
to the very front of peaceful and
progressive states. 1t was first to
entertain and adopt constitutional
prohibition, and the experiment is
now full tide of successful operation.
The man who stood foremost in the
contest, the governor of the state,
has just been nominated for re-elec-
ton, by the decisive vote of 297 to
SO for all others. The case of Gov.
st. John is an anomaly in politics.
The man who is positive, progress
sive and fearless, rarely carries the
timid and conservative with him.
AT the first blast Of violent opposi-
ton they fall away and vanish, no
matter how righteous may be the
cause; but though Gov. ST. John
was opposed and DETAINED with I'M
usual virulence, the sturdy and man
ly republicans of Kansas have an
swered his calumniators by an over
whelming denomination. 1t is a
lesson worth needing and remember
ing, and we commend it to the re-
publicans of New Hampshire. The
nomination of Gov. st. John was
not the only surprise that the repub-
licans of Kansas gave to the country,
They adopt short and ringing plat
form, which unqualifiedly approves
the prohibition of the sale and man
ufacture of Intoxicating liquors as a
beverage demands legislation that
shall prevent unjust discrimination
by railroad companies approves the
presidents veto of the river and har-
Dor bill, and favors the submission
of an amendment to the constitution
to secure to women the right of suf-
frage. These planks embody no
platitudes and no hating. They pre-
sent live issues and give no uncertain
sound as to the position of the re-
publicans of Kansas.-Telegrdph.'