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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09
aTaaR FOUNTAIN OF yourra.n
seEhe Greas, tho Good, shc EnyincibIe, the
Conqneror.,

Mr.. CHARLES wnEpEw, Of 46l Pine street,
Providence, r. l., says;-"During the past twenty
years have been great sufferer from very lame
back which supposed was caused by Rheumatism
or Neuralgia About six years ago had a severe
sickness from bowel disorder, and was obliged to
call a doctor, aud while being treated by him no Int
formed that he had discovered symptoms Of
Kidney Disease, but he gave me no medicine for Ii,
and suffered on from the aches and pains which
We're increasing constantly, and for which applied
plasters and liniments In Unlimited quantities but
obtained no permanent relief
About three months since | Was complaining
to a friend ofmy aches, pains, aud troubles, and
he urged me to try Hunts Remedy, as he knew
of some remarkable cures of Kidney Diseases
effected by Its use. decided to try IT, and began
to take it. having but very little faith that II would
relieve me- as am in my SEVENTEEN year, but to my
great delight before I lad taken tbs contents
OF the first bottle my lame back was bet
ter, the pains had disappeared and my health
was improved every day ! sleep better, and
have an excellent appetite, and Notwithstanding
my advanced age am able 10 attend 10 business
daily. greatly regret that did not take HUNS
Remedy when was FIRST troubled with the lame
back, as fully believed that IL would have saved
me from nearly twenty years OF suffering am
no believer in patent medicines tor auao medicines
as most of them are rightly Called but when s,ch
valuable and reliable medicine as Hunts Remedy
Is to be obtained am glad 70 testify to Its merits
In the highest terms, and cheerfuily recommend
Il to all who are afflicted with Kidney Diseases
mayo WF&MNw1wr0
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09
The Wedding Suit of 1924.

Fifty-nine years ago Mr.. Jacob Augustine,
the spruce young son of one of the pioneers
of Ohio reached his 2lst year, and his good
mother gave him roll of homemade wool
en- cloth spun by her own hands, and woven
by a neighbor, wherewith to have wedding
suit made. The happy day was set, but the
expectant bride was taken i'll and became
demented. Mr.. Augustine laid his wedding
suit away; and no one saw it again until a
few weeks ago. Mr.. Augustine had died,
and his executor, looking for the will, found
laid away in the bottom of well-filled chest
the wedding suit, carefully folded and
wrapped In sheet Within 1t was the will
and In the left sleeve of the coat thus &C.
curate and careful in details is the losal
chronicler) was found 1925 in gold.
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~ .sEation.l
Changes in American Magazines

SnanseS in American magazines.
The May number of Harper's Magazine is
the first issue Of that popular monthly, so
far as we can recall, without an instalment
Of ser ial story by an English novelist. Even
after the American novelist had begun to
come to the front, Harper's held fast to the
establis he'd British faEorites. The Atlantic.
II we remember Alright, has published but
two English serials-Mr. Charles Reades
Griffith Gaunt" and Mr.. Thomas Hardy's
1.-Two on a Tower" The Century gave up
imported fiction early In It's career OF late
Lippincotts also has relied on the native
novelist. Now Harper's follows suit. The
transatlantic story, driven from the month
lies, still fingers in certain OF the weeklies--
in Harper's Bazaar and Weekly and In the
Continent-and even here it is elbowed and
crowded by the native talent, II is a little
curious that this discarding of English au-
thors in American magazines is almost sim
ultaneous with the invasion Of England by
these very monthIies. Perhaps the moral
for American magazines In England is the
same as that for American women In Eng
land, who succeed best when they are az
gressively American, II we may credit Mr..
James's Siege of London"
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How Shall the Mammoth Million
naire Enjoy Himself?
london Spectator.

LLOHaOli cIecLhtDf.I
Those who watch the new mammoth mill
lionnalres now coming forward In such num-
bers from America and Australia say that
one definite reason for dreading them is
their incapacity for spending their fortunes
in amusing themselves. A man who has
made twenty millions sterling, say, by vast
"corners" In railway shares, finds that un-
less he goes on making money, or is one Of
those fortunate persons who can continu.
ously devote themselves to an object, the ex-
cess to which his fortune transcends that of
other rich men is of very little use to him.
He can, of course, get out Of 1t all the per-
sonal luxury, in the way of fine houses and
good eating, and purple and fine linen gen
orally, that he may happen TO wish for, but
in those things there is for him no special
satisfaction. Anybody with, say, 100000 a
year, or other bread-and butter fortune of
that kind, can buy all the personal luxury
he can enjoy, including in some places so
cial Difference; and the mammoth Million
naire wants something more, He wants to
feel the value of the difference between his
reBOuIctb anu buOSc Vi INC IDtFely TIcI, 10 90
or enjoy something which they cannot at
tempt EIephantine amusements may be
amusing, but they are only eephantine, and
he is a mammoth, wants larger trees TO
crash through, bigger forests TO browse in, a
deeper swamp in which to gapbol and roll.
In little planet like ours THIS is not easy TO
obtain. He desires, like the rest OF us, to
utilize his special advantage, which Is the
command of the modern form OF the wish
ing cap in degree to which no one else can
pretend, and it is difficult to wish for any
thing that nobody with smaller cap can
get He can travel about If he likes, travel
very pleasantly; but 80 can the ordinarily
wealthy man, money beyond a certain
amount adding little either to the enjoyment
| or the conveniences Of travel. The present
writer was travelling once on the track of an
Empress, and was so Inconvenience by her
wealth that he watched Ito see what it gave
her. 1t was very little indeed, nothing COM
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09
The MAYORS Latest Freak.

1t might be proper to complain of Mayor
.Deering as a common scold. Apparently he
is never easy unless uneasy-neyer content
ed unless in a brawl-always poking his
fiugers into other peoples pies, and invaria-
bly, angry if the impertlnence is resented.
The Communication" made by him to the
City Council Monday night was the most
singular document ever presented to gov
erning body. It showed an utter disregard
of parliamentary propriety and official court
esy. 1t is in striking contrast with the con-
duct of past Mayors who have brought edu-
cation, knowledge of affairs, and gentleman
lymanners to the board-qualifications of
which the communication shows not the
slightest trace. 1t is open to the most serious
criticism.
But 1t is not worth that The Mayor s
grotesque grammar, his absurd suggestions,
his entire and honest ignorance of the pro-
prieties of the situation, provoke smile
rather than a rebuke. The Council regard
him as a stupendous joke, have their guffaw
at the strange antics he plays, and then go
on quietly to transact their proper business.
They understand very well that he is aping
Governor Butler of Massachusetts, and an
ape is as amusing to them as to the rest of
mankind. Even the fits of blind anger,
though sometimes to be dreaded, have some
thing inexpressibly grotesque about them.
In 1871, Sir Stafford Northcote, then Chan
ssrvrct the f1xchequer, yentnred to make
the following prediction
81 will refer as one of the main sources of
possible addition to the revenue to the vast
increase of consumption of spirits. 1t may
be said that time will come when there
will be a check to that, but under what cir
cumstances will it be expected that the con-
sumption of spirits would fall off so as to Sc
riously iDjure the revenue? 1t must be eth
er from some general failure of the consum-
ing powers of the people, or from some great
change in the habits of the people. Hear,
hear. If the former 1t will tell upon all the
sources of revenue, as well as on that de-
rived from spirits. If the latter, the wealth
such change would bring to the nation
Will only wholly throw into the shade the
revenue from spirits, and the Exchequer
will not suffer from the loss it sustains in
that direction" Cheers.
In order to show what a desper ately I'M
safe business prophecy is, it is only necessa-
ry to add that few days ago Mr. Childers,
In unfolding his budget, quoted the above,
and then produced statistics showing that
such has been the advance of temperance in
England that the spirit and wine taxes fell
from SPA 900 to els, S4o, 900 in six years
"a drop of nearly twenty per cent. and rep
resenting as much taxation as would be pro-
duced by an income tax of three pence in
the pound.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09

A DISTINGUISHING mark of the late win
ter was the frequency and fatality of cases of
pneumonia. The statistics Of New York
CITY seem to show that the death rate from
that disease is steadily rising. In 1877 out
of every 1000 inhabitants POI died Of pneu-
monia; in 1882 the proportion was $50 per
1000, and the Increase has been regular
each year. During the last 40 years the
deaths from pneumonia in New York have
been 84,311, which is one-half as many as
died from the much more dreaded disease,
consumption. The increasing danger from
pneumonia will, doubtless, stimulate new
inquiry into the means of fighting the
disease
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09

THE vote of the British. House of Com
mons in the Affirmation bill was so very
close in full house that the bill was only
defeated by a majority of three, which seems
to augur favorably for the future success Of
some similar measure as soon as the Brad
laugh case shall have been disposed of. Mr.;
Gladstone gave the measure his powerful
support as did most of his Cabinet associ
ates. The British Liberals also generally
sustain the measure.
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COULDN'T AFF0RDIT.
Made KHoaess BY ausiaess Principles "a
Druggist tells she Square Truth.

"Now. my friend, let's DO perfectly frank and can
did about this little matters the druggist said
placing both elbows on his plated showcase aud
looking his customer fairly in the eye. You have
lame back and wont plaster to put on 1t. You
dent know me, and, judging Of human nature as 1t
runs In business. you are afraid III humbug you in
some way. You may think 1t an odd statement,
but can't afford to cheat you. Even ii / did /
haven't the means.
That's curious ooh my back IN take chair
guess) Don't you keep plasterss
'oh, yes. one or two kinds Once l had shelves
full OF them-every sort that were ever invented to
gull the ignorant and make money for imitators,
But sifted EN- cut one by one, and now sell
nESsoS's oArcISE POROUS rr.AsTERs
principally They always give satisfaction, and in
the end it pays me to sell them in preference to all
others"
Haven't you Allcoek's2"
''Yes, but my customers and myself prefer BEN
sons capcine which are quick as electricity, safe
as Government bonds and surc as the law Of CRAWL
tation. The doctors order them, and what is more
TO the point 1 have never heard complaint from
any one who has used Them. You can 90 elsewhere
Ill your back win bear you ont in the operations
and get another and cheaper plaster, but"
Don't talk 70 me about the money! broke ia the
eolnfort-seeking stranger with some heat. whats
ten or fifteen cents to getting rid of this COMPOUNDED
-oh. Lordy l-sthis pain and lameness? Let me have
one Of Benscn's Capcne. That's the real article is
IL? with the word cAPCINE cut IN the body Of the
plaster9r
fonH Do around 10 week. straight aud
strong, - added the diplomatic druggist. throwing
the money in his cash drawer may2wS&w2wIe
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09

A CANVASS of presidential preferences Of
the republican members of the Pennsylvania
house showed this result: Blaine, as; Ed :
munds, 21; Lincoln, 8; Grant, 2; Sherman,
/; W. D. Kelley, 4 Blaine or Edmunds, /;
Blaine or Lincoln, / Harrison or Edmunds,
| /: undecided. 10; absent. a
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09
MISCELLANEOUS.
CAMBRICS AND CALIC0ES.

Tuesday "Wednesday and Thursday and TO- shall offer
1000 yards yard wide Dress seventy
and stylish patterns at 10 cts yard Regular 2 2 st. goods
we also 0er 5000 yards stylish Dress Stock Prints
cts per yard Regular Ct goods These two lots of the best
makes.
We also offer $50 White Spreads, largest
100 White Bed Spreads, largest size at ST. 90 each.
so White Bed Spreads largest 81 90 These
much under regular prices.
We also 0ne 90 dozen Cents Fine Unaunded Shirts at SO cts
EACH These made OF good CLOTH reinforced with fine linen BOs0ms
and Cn and are also perfect fitting Shirt regular shirt Also
SO d0z Boys Fine White Shir at so cts. EACH
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09

VEGETARIANIsM has gained real foot
hold-or rather mouthhold in the metropo,
lis of beef-eating England, Several restau-
rants in London now furnish only vegeta-
bles for meals, and one of them averages
eight hundred diners The vegetables, how
ever, are very varied, and cooked with care.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING., MAY 0.

we do not read anonymous letters and communl-
catons. Inc name and address of the writer are IN
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publicar
ton but as guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09

Mr.. CHILDRRs in his Rndgat spaaeh nm
folded plan by means of which the British
debt could be reduced by e172, 000, 600 ster-
ling in twenty years. This was to take forty
millions of the Chancery funds at the dispo-
sal of the Government, and with them pur-
chase consols. In return the owners of this
stock are to get terminable annuities, that
is, annuities in which principal and interest
are paid off together in annual instalments.
Other terminable annaities funds are also to
be formed, and as they run out the money
will De re-inyested in the extinguishment of
debt. The present amount of the British
debt is Els, 100000. The operation now
recommended will reduce it to about e553,
100000 1t is expected that the withdrawn
Of the e172 ,00O, 600 of consols would so force
up prices that the Government would be able
to reduce the rate of interest to p per cent,
and that the selling price would still be par
or over.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09

THE state of New Jersey paid last year
nearly $4,000 Ia bounties for the growing of
sorghum cane and the manufacture of sugar
from it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09
8. M. LrrrINowELL. Jnstlce q the peace.

CUucURA REsoLvESTt the new blood purifier,
internally and CUTIoURA, and CuT1oURA soar, the
cleanse the Skin and Scalp, and purify the Blood of
every species Of Itching, Scay, Pmply, Scrofulous,
Mercurial, and Cancerous Humors, and Skin Tor
turosi when physicians, hospitals, and all other
means fail. Sold everywhere.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09
VITALQUESTI0NSii

Ask the most eminent physician
OF any school, what i the best thing in to world
for quieting and allayng all irritation OF the nerves
and curing all forms Of complaints, giving
natural, elliidlika refreshing sleep alwAysq
And they win tell you unhesitatIngly
/" some form % Hops.n
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CHAPTER ]

Ask any or.all Of the most eminent physici4ns-
What Is the best and only remedy that can be
relied to all diseases Of the kidneys and ur-
nary organs; such Brights disease, diabetes, re-
tention or inability 70 retain urine, and all the
diseases and ailments peculiar to Women
sand they win tell yoa explicitly and elpphati-
caily aBuchu.r
Ask the same physicians
"what i the most reliable and surest cure for all
liver diseases dyspepsia constipation indigestion
biiousness' Halarial fever, ague, &c. and they
will tell yon
Mandrake! Or DanaelsonF'
Hence when these remedies arc combined with
others equally valuable
And compounded Into Hop Bitsers, such won
derful and mysterious curative power Is Developed
which IS varied in It's operations that no disease
or III health possibly exist or resist ts power
and yetit
Harmless for The most frau woman, weakest in
valid or smallest child to use.
CHATTER II.
Patients
Almost dead or nearly dying,
For years. and given mp by PHYSICIANS Of Bright's
and other kidney diseases, liver complaints severe
coughs called consumption, have been cured.
Women gone nearly crazyi
From agony Of neuralgia. neryousness, wakeful
ness and various diseases peculiar to women.
People drawn out Of shape from exerucating
pangs Of Rheumatism,
Infiammatosy and chronic. or suffering from scroi
ulal
Erysipelasl
Salt rheum, blood poisoning, dyspepsia indiges.
ton, and In fact almost all diseases frail
Nature is heir 10
Have beeh cured BY Hop Bitters, proof Of which
can be fouu'l 10 every neighborhood IN the known
world, aprl6eod&wim1s
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09

THERE would seem to be a number of
hrst-class frauds on the other side of the At
lantic whose special mission it is to manu-
facture sensational falsehoods concerning
any matters of public interes. that may be
uppermost for transmission to this country
by cable. just what purpose is served by
these receptions it is not easy to determine
since some of them cannot by any possibility
affect the stock market, although others
have very pronounced tendency that way.
One of the latest samples of this
stuff was the Dublin dispatch kind of
which reported the arrest of Sheridan and
Walsh in New York, from an official source
This story was Fabrication from begin
ming to end, and was only matched in men,
dacity by the statement that lyman. other
wise known as Number One," was about
to turn informer. If British officials have
nothing else to do but hatch lies for the
American press, 1t is pity that some kind
of amusement cannot be invented for them.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09

THE extreme slowness with which the
Queen is recovering from the effects of an
accident which certainly was not in itself OF
serious or alarming character is giving rise
70 all manner of extraordinary and sensa-
tional reports, some of them going SO far as
to intimate that the royal intellect has be-
come or is becoming impaired. This last is
probably mere conjecture suggested by the
fact that insanity is hereditary in Victoria's
family, and that many of her relatives have
developed various kinds of eccentricity. But
1t must be admitted that the royal GONZALES,
cence is singularly and ominously protract-
ed. A thoroughly healthy woman ought
not to be suffering SO much and so long
from sprained knee, even though she is
sixty-four years of age and of full habit.
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OoVaJyg


have been afflicted for twenty years with an oh
stnite skin disease, called ky NJ DIS Psoria~
SIS, and others Leprosy, commencing on my gcalp
and in spite OF all could do. with the help OF tic
most skiful doctors, 1t slowly but surely extended
until " ar ago this winter 1t covered my entire
years have been unable to do any labor and suf-
fering intensely all the time Every worning there
could be nearly dustpanful of scales taken from
the sheet OF my bed, some of them half large as
the envelope containing this letter. In the latter
part OF winter my skin commenced cracking open.
tried everything, almost, that could be thought
o., without any relief. The 18th Of June started
Westin hopes / could reach the Hot Springs.
reached Detroit and was so low thought should
Lansing, Mich, where 1 had a sister living. One
DR.. - treated mo about two weeks, but did me no
good. All thought / had but a short time TO live
earnestly prayed TO die. Cracked through the
skin all over my back, my RIBS; arms hands
limbs, feet badly swollen toenais caino Off finger.
nails dead and hard as bone; hair dead dry. and
lifeless as old straw. my Godi how did suffer
My sister, Mrs. IL. II. Davis, had q small part OF
box of CUTIcURA in the house. She wouldn't give
piled on hand and arm. Enrekal There was
relief stopped the terrible burning sensation from
the word go. They Immediately got the CUTIcuRA
RESoLyBNr, CUTfcURA, and SOAP i commenced
by taking tablespoonful Of REsoLvENT three
times day after meals; had o bath once n day,
water about blood heat; used CUTIcUHA Soar
freely; applied CUTIoURA morning and evening.
Result, returned TO my home In just six weeks from
time left, and my skin as smooth as this sheet OF
paper. HIRAM II. CARPENTER.
HENDERSON, JEFFERSON Co., N. Y.
sworn TO before me this nineteenth day of Janu-
airy, 1880.
A. M. LTFFJNgWEII ,Jusfice Of the Tonce.
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TIE Norwegians show steady indepen-
dence in maintaining their political rights
Last year the King dismissed the Storthing
with an angry speech, censuring the at
titude of the representatives of the people.
The Government scattered the speech broad
cast, hoping that it would influence the cleo
torate in favor of the Government. It totally
failed to do so. for in the new House the
Radicals secured majority Of three TO one.
An incident Illustrative of the independence
of the people was afforded in the Stjerno dis
trict, which the King in accordance with dis
usual custom presented with library, ac-
companying the gift, however, with a copy
OF his speech. The District Board promptly
declined the gift, on the ground that its ac-
ceptance implied political obligation they
were unwilling to assume.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-09

AYgE's CATHARrIo PILLS correct irregularities
of the bowels, stimulate the appetite and digestion,
and by their prompt and thorough action give tons
and yigor to the whole physical economy.