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The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28
ist who should above everything else keep
truth in view.

ist who should above everything else keep
truth in view.
ART IN PICTURESQUE COUNTRY.
Turgeneff discovered the germs of Nihil-
ism before any one else suspected their ex-
istence. He, in Virgin Soil,' shows the
process of incubation which they underwent
in the region of Nicholas The word Nj
hilist was coined by him, and good deal
laughed at when it was fresh to the Russian
ear. He was not sure that political sects
akin to those described would not spring up
everywhere. If asked whether he tnought
their advent would be desirable, he said that
all fatalities have their good sides, but that
everything fatally inevitable crashes down
much that is fair and good. Fate is lnexor-
able, and therefore in rendering benefit
never goes out of her way to spare the lar
flowers that are growing up before her. Tur-
geneff was of opinion that splendidiy pic
turesque country was bad soil for literary
or artistic production. Strong emotions or
sensations tended to dethrone the faculty OF
exact observation upon which we are de-
pendent for aesthetic enjoyment in fiat dis
tricts. We console ourselves for the prose OF
the landscape in looking with an almost mi
croscopic eye at plants and insects, and come
to see world replete with beauty and AMI
nation in tangle of gorse brambles and
humble field flowers. In expressing to me this
theory he asked, 'Did you ever see
mountaineer who was sensible to the beauty
and the song of small bird9 He watches
the flight of game and birds of prey. But
for my part have found him Indifferent to
the lark and swallow. Ny first acq uain-
tance with the skylark was precisely in look
ing about for compensation for the uginess
of a fiat near Berlin. l shall never forget
the broadening cut of the aesthetic faculty
on this occasion. The little creature rose al
most from under my feet, and went. up
Singing her joyful song, which / heard long
after she was invisible. | then remarked
the beauty of the sky and of many other
things " which l should not otherwise have
noticed. ."-London News.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28
The Skein We Wind.

Fall down TO lie quite still
And if some other hand should come and stoop to
find
The threads we carried, SO that it should wind,
Beginning where we stopped; if it should come to
keep
Our life work going, seek
TO carry on the good design,
Distinctively made yours or mine,
What would it find?
Some work we must be doing, true or false;
Some threads we wind; some purpose SO exalts
Itself that we look up to it, or down,
AS to crown
To bow before, and we weave threads
of different length and thickness-some mere
shreds-
And wind them round
Till the skein of life is bound,
Sometimes forgetting at the time
To ask
The value of the threads. or choose
Strong stuff to use.
No hand but winds soma thread:
1t cannot stand quite still till it is dead
But what it spins and winds a little skein.
Good make each hand for work-not toll stain
Is required, but every hand
Spins, though but ropes of sand.
If love should come,
STOPPING above when we are done,
To find bright threads
That we have held, that it may spin them longer
find but shreds
That break when touched-how cold,
Sad, shivering. poriionless, the hand will hold
The broken strands, and know
Fresh cause for more.
-Hu1pkeye
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28
Notes About Notable People.

Notes About Notable People.
Ex-Governor Hartman of New Hamp-
shire is out of doors again.
Gen. Joseph Holt-with the exception of
Jacob Thompson the only surviving member
of Buchanan's cabinet-lives in pleasant re-
tirement on Capitol Hill in Washington. At
the age of IS he is still erect, vigorous and
well preserved. His long white hair hangs
low upon his neck, his gray eyes are un-
dimmed by age, and his firm, clear-cut fea-
lures express all the determination of his
younger manhood.
The Booth family now consists of the
mother-the elder j. B. Booths widow
who survives, at upwards of eighty years,
Rosalia Booth, Edwin and Joseph, and Asia
S. Booth Clarke, wife of the American COM
edian, John s. Clarke of London. There
were ten children of the elder Booth, name
ly. Junius Brutus, Rosalia Ann, Henry By
ron, Mary, Frederick, Elizabeth, Edwin,
Asia Sydney, John Wilkes and Joseph Ad-
Olson. Only four remain.
The late Cromwell Fleetwood Varley was
q lineal descendant of Oliver Cromwell
through the marriage of the Protectors
daughter to General Fleetwood. He de-
yised the first successful Atlantic cable, and
foretold that it could be used at the rate of
fifteen words minute, as the result of ex-
periments made by him with an ingeniously
Constructed artificial line, whereby ne could
obtain resistances and induction equal to
those on long cables. By means of two
kitchen saucepans and little carrier he
eucceeded in raising the feeble charge of
electricity produced by rubbing bit of seal
inq-wax to one that would give strong
snark. and on that principle constructed a
powerful machine for practical use.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28
WE SHOULD HELP ONE ANOTHER.

Mr. NORMAN HUM of No. 169 Chestnut ST.,
Springfield, Mass, writes April 10, 1888, saying:
"Having The af1iction caused by kidney and liver
diseases and after enduring the aches, pains, weak
ness and depression incident thereto until body and
soul were nearly distracted, sought for relief and
cure from my trouble, and was told by friend who
had been cured by it himself, that the best and only
sure cure was Hunts Remedy, and upon his recon-
mendation commenced taking it, and the first few
doses improved nay condition in a very marked man
ner and continuance of its use has justified all that
my friends claim for it-that it was sure and per-
manent cure for all diseases of the kidneys and liver
Several of my friends in Springfield have used 1t
with the most gratifying results, and feel It my
duty as well as pleasure to me to recommend
Hunts Remedy in the highest possible terms"
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

By mistake the supply of whiskey and ci-
gars meant for the Tammany train to Buff
falo, was put on board the train which car
ried the delegates of the County Democra-
cy. Numerous bars along the route some
what mitigated the sufferings of the Tam
many men however, and there is no reason
to believe that they were too sober when
they arrived to creditably represent theil
organization.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28
The Portland & Ogdensburg.

At an adjourned informal meeting of the
City Council held last evening an expression
Of opinion was had which showed that it
is the judgment of all the members that
the city should sell OF lease the Portland &
Ogdensburg railroad if favorable proposals
are received. We suppose there is no
question, after such an expression, that the
Canadian Pacific railroad will promptly
make definite proposition which the City
Council can then formally consider. Indeed
Mr.. Putnam stated that representatives of
the company would come to Portland next
week, and probably the people will soon
know just what they are prepared to do in
matter which naturally has attracted
great deal Of attention.
We believe that this expression of the City
Council is in harmony with the judgment
and wishes of the business men of Portland
and with the views of almost every intelli-
gent citizen who has given the mater seri-
ous consideration. This favor to the pro-
ject is conditioned, of course, upon considera-
tions which it is expected will be a made
SSSoAo AZ shO SObbadC W carry any pEOpOoi-
ton that may be made into effect 1t means
that the citizens are willing to give the con-
troll of this road to the Canadian Pacific
Railway Company provided such terms can
be made as promise to secure to Portland in
satisfactory measure the objects for which
the City made its investment.
When the proposition to be made by the
Canadian Pacific Company is submitted we
shall have basis upon which TO discuss the
project, and shall give it that serious con-
sideration which the great importance of the
matter merits At present there is nothing
more to be said than that the scheme
as outlined appears to be not only
safe one and wise one, but the only one
which offers any reasonable hope of making
the Portland C Ogdensburg road such link
In great trunk line as will result in the de-
sired increase of the citV's prosperitv
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

The Boston Transcript has been examin-
ing the records of the signal service station
for twelve years, and find that for those
years the average rain fall has been about
90 inches. The largest amount recorded in
any one year was in 1878 when it reached 65.
.55 inches, aud the smallest not including the
present year, in 1880, when it was but 81.
80 inches. The total rainfall for the pres
ent year so far has been but 2202 inches,
80 that numerous and heavy transforms will
be necessary to bring the total fall for the
year up to the lowest record even. In May
of the present year it appears that the rain
fall was considerably above it's average, but
In June, July, August and September il was
far below. The total rain fall in March,
April, June, July, August and September
did not exceea but very little the fall in the
single mouth of November 1876 when I1.03
inches were recorded
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

Or. T. A. Bland apologies through the
columns of the Boston Herald for having
written eulogistic life of Gov. Butler. He
admits that when he wrote the biography he
did not know much about its subject Since
then he has learned enough to make him
wish that he had studied Buffers character
earlier. DR.. Bland has written some works
on the currency, the character of which in
dicate that the Doctor did not know much
about that subject. He will not have done
bis whole duty to the public until he apollo
Qizes for them.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

Senator Bayard says of Butler, "Whatev-
er may be his protestations now, I can new
or forget the fact that much, aye, most of
the labor, the anxiety and the humiliation
Of the party to which / belong came from
the wicked, base. persistent and malicious
efforts of men in Congress like Butler
And this is the same Butler the Massachu-
setts Democrats commend to the cordial
support of the people.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

The Democrats of Massachusetts have
done what everybody supposed they would
ratified Gov. Buffers nomination of himself.
The question to be settled in November is
chiefly one of men, and the platform of eth
or party will receive little attention. The
decent people of Massachusetts insist that
Gov. Butler shall go, and this is the over
shadowing issue of the. campaign.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

The Massachusetts, Democrats declared in
favor of civil service reform in which fit
ness, not favor, shall regulate appointments,
and then stultified themselves by nominate
ing man who from his youth up has been
one of the chief apostles of the spoils sys-
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28
mANUFAorURRR,s rEsrrmoNx.

Mr.. W. PAYNE. manufacturer of harness, sad
dlery, trunks, valses, ETC., No. ATT Main Street,
Springfield, Mass, writes under date of April 10,
1885,
GENrLEmEN,--I have used Hunts Remedy, the
best medicine for diseases of the kidneys bad-
der, and urinary organs, and have received great
benefit to my health from its use, and find it will
do Just what is claimed for it; it will cure disease
and restore health. 1 therefore pronounce it the
best medicine that have ever used.''
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28
TaE sLEADE77
Pure Havana Cigar.

T f. McMAIN of the firm of McMain & Weston,
ls would call the attention of buyers and smokers
to the New Cigar which they introducing to this
market. 1t is a PURE CIGAR, free from favoring or
colorng OF the Stock and absolutely free from poi
SON OF any kind. It is frst-class clean and guar
anteed to be of the best Havana; Call for I. N.
connection. a brand called "Cupido Five Cent
Cigar. Smokers who value their health should try
the Leader" and note the diherence between the
pure and the imitation. Address
NcMAIN g. wEsTON,sWestf Mass.
For sale by Geo. CFrye Timmons g. Halves, A. P.
s. Gould, b. w. Jones, T. F. B Percy, Falmouth Ho-
tel, E. Dana Jr., and j. B. Totten. sep11d5m
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

Tt IA said that Secretary Folger in his annual
report will recommend the consolidation Of
nnmber of Custom Houses in New England
and along the South Atlantic. in cases where
tbs expenditures are greater than receipts
Secretary Folger has taken this position before,
but has not succeeded in carrying his plan
through Congress, the friends OF the small
Custom Houses having rallied to their support
on the ground that they were not established
for purposes Of revenue, but to prevent
smuggling.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28
Maine General HOsnitoJ.

TEtHE annual meeting of the corporation will be
IL held at four o'clock in the afternoon OF Tues
day the sth day of October, 1888. at the Council
ChamDer, City Hall, Portland, for the purpose of
eecting officers for the ensuing year, and of tran
saeting such other business as may legally be pre-
sented By order of the Directors,
II. X. BARRETT. Secretary.
Portland, Sept. IL, 1888. 2awtdTh&M
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28
nosToN 90 ALBANY RArLRoAp.

ALBERT HOLT, Esq, paymaster Boston and Alba
ny Railroad, at Springfield Mass, writes April %,
1883: 81 have used Hunts Remedy, and my expert
ence with it has been such that cheerfully say
that am satisfied that it will do just what it prom
ises to do if used according to directions.
sep2 p2eWF&M&w1w39
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28
TIL E Pr II s S.
FRIDAY MORNING. SEP. 2s.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all eases indispensable, not necessarily for publica
tion but as guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
nunications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

We suppose Judge Fields decision in the
boom on the Pacific coast, but that it will
add to his reputation as judge we very
much doubt
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

Judge Hoadly's physician tells him that
he may speak in Ohio next week if he will
not 60 near the malarial district. Judge
Hoadly will have to use the telephone.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

Butler is charged with attempting to beat
q passage out of the Boston and Providence
railroad company by the pretense that he
had a-pass when as a matter of fact he had
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

Voorhees's favorite for the head of the
Democratic ticket is Mcdonald, provided
Tilden will not accept the nomination.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28
New Publications.

French and German Socialism in Modern
pages. New York: Harper Brothers. Noring
Short & Harmony
In a small and unpretending volume Professor
Ely has published the substance of lectures deiv-
cred by him, at the Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore and at Cornell University. 1t is not book
Of discussions but of information, fully and can
didly communicated upon subject which is and
for the present will be of the important matters
of public consideration. Socialism in some form
is well that there should be at hand a convenient
and trustworthy compendium of information on
the history ofthe theories and experiments which
have had currency and confidence in the world
The first chapter treats Of the ideas of the rights of
the laboring classes which obtained favor at the
time of the French Revolution. Then in order the
speculations and schemes of Babeuf, CADET, Saint
Simon, Fourier, Louis Blanc, Proudhon, Rodbertus,
Carl Marx and Lassalle clearly set forth, with
chapters on the International workingmen's Asso-
citation, Socialism in France since Proudhon
the Ideal of Social Democracy, Socialism of the
Chair and Christian Socialism. All these schemes
are treated of in the manner of a teacher who de.
sres to make known the facts, while he leaves the
Judgment of those who attend to him free to form
conclusions He does not attempt to decide definite
ly upon the wisdom or unwisdom, the right or the
wrong of any of these theories The book therefore
is one which is useful to every class seeking nstruc
ton rather than controversy or dogmatsm.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28
Portland GrOcers'and Flour Deal
ers' Association.

TE1HE Annual Meeting of the Association will, ba
Il postponed to Saturday. Sept. 20, and will then
be held at Board of Trade Rooms at 80 O'Clock n
m. for the election Of officers and such other busi
ness as may regularly come before it.
Per order
Portland Sept. "a, 1883. sen35d5t
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28
MEETINGS.
Citizens NutuaI Relief society.

FEIHE stated meeting or September will be held
IL Reception Hall, next Friday evening, at 71S
O'Clock, 28th inst The Directors meet half an
hour previous. M. N. RICH, Secretary
sep26 d3t
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28
For SAFE.

SCHOONER YACHT. Thirty three feet long,
y eleven feet breadth. Inquire Of
A. l.. JOHNSON,
aug22dtf No. Custom House Wharf.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

The report of the 25th international Convention
of Young Mems Christian Associations which was
held in Milwaukee last May has been published
together with the Year Book of the Associations
for 1883-S4 in octavio volume of about 275
pages. 1t is valuable handbook for all who are
interested in the work doing by these organizations
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

PORTLAND, MAIN h
TO THE PUBLIC,
If in want of new furnace beg to direct your
attention to th Kohler Hot Air Furnace. Its SUI
perlority over all others will demonstrate if you
will call at my store. The following well known
persons hay the Kohler
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

Ellis Triumph BY Mary A. Dennison. 16 mo-
248 pages. Boston, Lee g. Shepard.
This is a highly wrought story dealing with the
social conditions of the lives of actors. successful
professional actor secured domestic happiness
by concealing the truth about himself from his wife
who nevertheless discovered it, and, being stage
struck, studied privately and made her debut with
great success. His triumph consisted in persuading
her. out of love for him. to relinqush all thoughts Of
a career for which she had natural taleut.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

The second number of "Dio Lewis's Monthly is
out. 1t treats Of matters of health and disease
chiefly and in the manner which those who have any
acquaintance with the DOCTORS methods would ex-
meet
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

The October number of st. Nicholas is the final
of the tenth volume. 1t is not inferior to any
of the rest, which is the saying that it is
number of the best magazine for children that is
published anywhere. Its stories, essays poetry and
illustrations adapted to the young mind not by
degradation from the standard of good literature
and art, but by appreciation of the things which in
terest the young and genuine sympathy with their
ways of thinking. The publishers spare exertion
and no expense and the wide popularity of the
magazine attests their success. 1t educates and en-
tertains and those who have enjoyed its pages
never outgrow an interest in it.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

"Topics of the Tines No. 5. New York: G. P.
Putnam's Sens Ooring, Short & Harmony Paper
20 cents.
The five essays selected for this number class
ed together under the general title "Questons of
Belief" The writer's are Vernon Lee, Frances Pow
er Cobbe, Edmund Gurney, Leslie Stephens and E. j.
S. Shuckburgh. The essays appeared first in English
periodicals
Mrs Gpins Frugalities.r BY Susan Anna
Brown. New York; Charles Scribner's Sons; (Lor-
ing Short & Harmony $1.O0.
John Gilpin it will be remembered, before he took
his famous ride kissed his loving wife, being
oyerjoyed to find
That though on pleasure she was bent
She had frugal mind
Mrs. Gilpin's "Frugaities is therefore very neat
title for book whick gives some 200 receipts for
serving up freshly rnd economically the remnants
of food which has once been placed upon the table
1t would be presumptuous to declare, in advance of
Trial. that these rules good, but it may be said
that they hold out the promise of many an appetiz-
ing dish.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-28

"Phantoms of Life By Luther Dana Waterman
New York: g. P. Putnam's Sons. Loring, Short &C.
Harmony
If the matter of this volume is poetry the world
can do without it forever In the whole book there
is scarcely clear thought clear sentence 1t is
commonplace, unmusical and dreery The author
has nothing to say that is worth the saying and has
not the art to say his nothing in agreeable way.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-30
nnsCurD rnnm DEATH

The following statement of william !. Cough
In, OF Someryille, Mass, II so remarkable tDat
We beg To ask for Il tho attention OF our read
ers. lie says "In the fall OF 1876 was taken
with u violent bleeding of the lungs followed
by severe cough. 1 soon began to lose my
appetite and fiesh. WIS 40 weak M one time
that could not leave my bed. In the sum.
mUr OF 1877 was admitted TO the City Hospital.
white there the doctors said I had Il hole in
my lett lung ~ big NJ n half.dOIlar. Iexpend.
oil ovcra hundred dollars ia doctors and med.
icnes. was 20 tar gone AT one time report
went around that was dead. gave up hope
but n friend told ire OF DR. WIN. HALLS
RAI SAM FOR THE LUNGS. 1 laughc at
my friends, thinking my case iUcurablo, but
got n b' tile to satisfy them, when TO my sur.
prisca qualification, | commenced to feel
better My hope, once dead, began TO revive
aud 20 lay feel ia better spirits thnn have
tho past three years.
81 wriothis hoping you viii publish e.. 40
that every one ailiictCi with Diseased Lungs
viii Ne induced To take DR. WM. HALLS
BALsAM fUR THE LUNGS, ana Do con win ced
TINT CONSUMPTION CAN 81 CURED.
have taken two bottles and can positively say
that II has done me more good than ali the
other medicines have taken since my sick
ness. My cough has almost entirely disap.
pcarod ana shall .uon b" able To- go to work.
sold nv ~ u Cochran, Ia Nurth Queen street
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-30
uALLOw n nc N.

Ana some OF its Peculiar Ob.srvano es
To morrow evening October 3lst is
Halloween, or All lIallow's Eve, n festival
that has for centuries been invested with
more superstitions than cluster around
any other season OF the year. The festival
IL supposed to be relic Of pagan practices
but nothing deiiuite Is known Of its origin.
One of the old customs among the young
folks was to place three nuts on the bars
OF a fire CRATE, naming them after their
lovers. Ii nut cracks or jumps away,
tho lover IN said To be uufaithful; II u
blazcs aud burns, he loves his lady, and if
tho two, named after the girl and her
sweetheart, burn together, they will be
married.
Another singular observance Is that
known in Scotland as "The Three Lug
gies, or Dishes -" One dish Of clean water,
another OF foul and the third empty, arc
placed side by side, when the experimen
tors approach blindfOlded aud dip their
fingers INTO one. If the clean water they
are To marry n maiden or youth If
the dirty, widow or widower and If
the empty dish II selected, single life
will bO tho fate. As each person takes
bis turn at the luggies great
care IL taken to see them duly changed" :"
so that the test may be u fair one. Another
quaiut custom, still prevalent in tho old
country" and perhaps in the rural districts
Of Now England, is that Of pulling the
stalks of cUlewort Ca variety Of cabbage).
The young people go out hand in hand
(blindiolded) into the garden, aud each
pulls the first stalk which she meets with.
According as tho stalk is big or little,
straight or crooked, 80 will tho future wife
or husband be; the quantity of earth
adhering tn the stalk measuring the future
fortune, aud the taste of the pth denotes
the temper OF the future life partner.
La this part of the country there il but
little observance of the day, except among
children, who amuse themselves pulling
door bells, throwing shelled corn against
windows, or removing doorsteps, signs,
30, all of which are more honored in the
breach than in the observance.