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Asurvey is about being made through
the heaviest portion of the Black can
yon of the Gunnison. For long dis
tance the walls of syenite rise to the
stupendous height of 5000 feet, and
for 1,SO0 feet the walls of the canyon
are arched not many feet from the bed
of the river. If the survey is success
full, and the Denver and Rio Grande is
built through the canyon it will un-
doubtedly be the grandest piece of en-
gineering or the American continent.
The liver is very swift, and it is pro-
posed to build boat at the western
end and provision it for a length of
time, allowing it to float with the
stream. but controlled by rol cs If
the boat goes the chances are that the
baby road goes, too.
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The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28
philadelphia Press.l
Mr.. Reed Hits the Nail.

The crisp, clear-c cut, incisive speech of Mr..
Reed, of Maine, in the Republican caucus,
goes to the marrow Of the present tariff stu
alton. 1t constitutes platform on which
Republican representatives can safely stand
and on which the Republican party can sue
cessfully go to the country. He desires a
fair revision of the tariff, but he utterly re
pudates the false and dangerous idea that a
bad Tariff bill is better than no bill at all.
So far as the interests of bis owp section
protection. But Mr.. Reed is clear-headed
and just enough to see and to say that the
measure which conserves some industries
and destroys others is not merely repugnant
to every instinct of fair play but full of dam
ger to the country. OF what avail is it if
New England is protected, and the great
central belt left defenceess. She needs pros
perity throughout the land that she NAV
thrive on an active market; and what be-
comes of the market If the industries of the
great central States are paralyzed, their mills
closed. their labor crippled and their de-
mand destroyed?
Mr. Reed equally repudiates the claim
that the Senate bill is Republican measure.
As he rightly says, all of the obnoxious and
destructive provisions were carried by Dem
ocratic efforts and votes against the opposl-
ton OF a large majority OF the kep9bicanss,
More than that, the only possible hope OF
the bill to-day lies in the support OF th9
great body of the Democrats in the House.
There is no reason, therefore, in undertak-
ing to press it upon Republicans as Repub-
liean bill.
The action of the caucus was in harmony
with Mr.. Reeds sensible speech. 1t serves
to dress up the Republican line 1t practi-
cally decides that the Senate bill cannot pass
in its present shape, and that decision re- as
snres the country.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28
Mr.. Reed and the Tariff.

Mr.. Reed has carried the House with him,
and the tariff bill goes into committee of
conference. If that committee does its
work with judgment and celebrity we may
speedily have a new tariff. But the pros
pect for the passage of bill is poor in theex
treme. A good one ought to have been
passed month ago. The dilatory tactics of
the Democrats, and in these last days their
stubborn refusal to vote, together with the
cranky notions of some Republicans, have
probably done the business and postponed
an equitable revision of the tariff.
Mr. Reed has done all that could be done
to expedite matters. His aim has been to
send the bill into conference committee
with all possible celerity. He has after vex-
atious and unreasonable opposition succeed
ed by his wit and force in achieving his OBJ
ject. 1t is doubtful if any other man in the
House could have done as much; for there
is no other member that can SO engage its
attention and convince its judgment. But it
Is to be feared that his success has come too
late. Slight deliberation can be expected in
the last hours of an expiring Congress. He
has done all that could be done. The re-
sponsibility for the failure to properly revise
the tariff does not lie at his door and is not
the fault of the majority of the House that
stood at his back.
Mr.. Reed, too, is entirely right in saying
that failure TO act is preferable to bad re-
vision. The wiser sentiment of the country
will sustain him in that declaration. What
sense is there in doing thing that must be
speedily undoae lest grievous harm befall?
The country wants a revised tariff, but the
revision it desires must be in the interests
of industry and trade. 1t would greatly pre-
fer no change to a change for the worse. 1t
can thrive under the tariff as it stands. 1t
might suffer serious hurt by injudicious al
terations. 1t believes it better to bear the
ills we have than to fly 10 others we
know not of.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28
The Good Observer Of Nature

John Burroughs contributes to the March
Century Characteristic and charming pa
per on "Signs and Seasons illustrated
with engravings by Elbridge Kingsley. Of
observers of nature the writer says: The
good observer of nature exists in fragments,
a trait here and a trait there. Each person
sees what it concerns him to see. The fox
hunter knows pretty well the ways and hab-
its of the fox, but on any other subject he is
apt to mislead you. He comes to see only
fox traits in whatever he looks upon. The
bee-hunter will follow the bee but lose the
bird. The farmer notes what affects his
crops and his earnings. ana little else.
Common people, St. Pierre says, observe
without reasoning, and the learned reason
without observing. If one could ap
ply to the observation of nature the
sense and skill of the South American ras-
treador, or trailer, how much he would track
home. This mans eye is keeuer than a
hounds scent. A fugitive can no more e
lude him tban he can elude fate. His per-
ceptions are said to be so keen that the
displacement of leaf or pebble, or the
bending down OF spire of grass, or the re-
Inoval of little dust from the fence is e.
nough to give him the clew. He sees the
half obliterated foot prints of thief in the
sand, and carries the impression in his eye
till year afterward, when he again de-
tects it in the subuIb BIS of city, and the
culprit is tracked home and caught.
/ knew man blind from his youth who
not only went about his own neighbor-
hood without guide, turning up to his
neighbor's gate or door ss unerringly as if
he had the best of eyes, but who would go
many miles ON an errand to new part of
the country. He seemed to carry a map of
the township in the bottom of his feet,
most minute and accurate survey. He never
took the wrong road, and he knew the right
house when he had reachs it. He was a
miller and fuller, and ran his mill at night
while his sons ran it by day. He never
made mistake with his customers bags or
wool, knowing each mans by the sense of
touch. he frightened colored man whom
he detected stealing, as if he hao seen out of
the back of his head Such facts show one
how delicate and sensitive a mans relation
to outward nature through his bodily senses
may become Heighten it a little more, and
he could forecast the weather and the sea-
sons, and detect hidden springs and miner
ais. A good OBJ has something of this
delicacy and quickness. of perception. All
the great poets and Daturalists have it.
Agassiz traces the glaciers like rastreador,
and Darwin misses no step the slow but
tireless gods of physical change have taken,
no matter how they cross or rerace their
course. In the obscure fsh-worna he sees
an agent that has kneaded and leaveued the
soil like giant hands.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28
Mayor and school Committee

The unanimity with which Mayor Libby
was renominated yesterday proves that his
administration has been eminently satisfac-
tory and assures his reelection. He has
been an able, Just and energetic magistrate.
The city cannot afford to lose his services.
Many citizens who are not Republicans, will
vote for him, believing that by doing SO
they are acting for the best interests of the
town.
The nominations for members OF the
School Committee are excellent. The men
uamed for the positions will infuse new
blood in the board. They are gentlemen of
education, holding broad views concerning
our School system, land possessing the energy
and enthusiasm that make for success. In
the caucus that nominated them some differ
ence of opinion rose as to locality, but the
discussion was prosecuted in friendly spirit
and left no bad feeling behind it. The wis
dom of the new law may well be questioned,
but it was the opinion Of the majority of the
delegates that ward lines should not be
strictly regarded. To that decision the min
ority of course submit.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

II seems that the idea of constructing a
railroad tunnel under the English Channel
has not been defnitively abandoned as had
been understood. Mr.. Chamberlain, in his
capacity OF President of the Board OF Trade,
has announced thatthe subject is to be TAX
On into consideration by Parliamentary
Committee, by whose decision the scheme
will stand or fall. That the bill should have
encountered so much opposition bears strik-
ing witness to the strength of British con-
servatism and to that feeling of complacen-
cy in his insular situation which is charac-
teristic of the average Englishman. Ithas
been shown that the tunnel is feasible, and
it would certainly be great convenience,
but it is ''un-English,n and SO an outcry
has been raised against it Yet its construc-
tion is only question of time, for even
British prejudice must yield to the march
of civilization.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

width and half of another width are used
the fullness is massed at the top BY side
peats, there are two double box pleats,
for attaching 1t to the belt, and the lower
part may be square cornered, sewed to the
sides of the lower skirt, faced across the
bottom, aud tackled in three or four places
across the foot to keep it in place, or the
lower ends may be turned and sewed out of
sight, just as many apron fronts are now
done.
Box pleatings covering plain close foun-
dation skirt are ON the greatest number Of
imported dresses. A single row of plealings
beginni, @ under the upper draperies, covers
all the visible parts below, and this is at
tached to the foundation skirt, and in MANY
instances Is trimmed with velvet ribbon or
with 81 utache. The widths of these bog
pleats differ; some are an eighth of yard
wide. with two side pleats folded closely un-
der them, and separated by only an inch of
space from the next similar pleating; others
are so wide that only one pleating il needed
down the front breadth, one iu each side
breadth. and two for the back. Occasion
ally two box-pleated fiounces trim the front
and sides of the SKIRT but only one Is visible
below the back drapery, although this back
drapery is now much shortened. There are
also dresses with one wide gathered fouuce,
quite straight hemmed on the lower edge aud
With TWO Stl1f erect IrlllS at Jne top, each
two inches wide when finished, of the ma
terial doubled; one of these frills may be of
velvet, while the other and the wide founce
are of blocked ottoman silk; these fall at
the foot in a narrow bias gathered rufhe of
velvet, and perhaps one of pleated satin.
The wide gathered fiounce may be FIVE
eighths of yard deep, and should have in
it five and a half or six breadths of ordinary
width. The box-pleatings of lower skirts
are attached to the foundation skirt only at
their top, and are held in place by three or
four rows of tape tackled on their wrong
side.
Lower skirts, or foundation skirts, remain
very narrow, and in many instances consist
of but four breadths, one in front, which is
quite narrow, a wider gored breadth on each
side, and straight back breadth that is
still wider. Silks of the cheap qualities fused
for foundation skirts wear so badly that mo-
distes are using more durable cashm eres
and even cotton sateens for this purpose; ;
and as these have no body, they are stiff
ened in the lower part, and sometimes
| throughout, by thin criuoline lawn lining
| that adds very little to their weight. At the
| footrhe cashmere is faced upward for two
| or three inches, and there is no other facing,
| and no braid is used on the edge
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

The Dartmouth College sophomores ap-
pear to be very uninteresting group of
young Americans. TIE mere boyish imper-
tfnence of tin-horn serenade might have
been excused, but.the window breaking and
fence smashing were performances of a
highly reprehensible nature; even theses
however, are thrown in the shade by the
dissertation of the chapel in spirit of wan
ton mischief The faculty will be derelict
if these sacrilegious students are not severe
ly punished,
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

A CASE pending in the United States dis
trict court for New York will help determine
the responsibility for disregarding govern
ment storm signals. A tug took two barges
in tow, and, in spite of the warnings of the
signal service and the protests of the cap
tains of the barges, put to sea. The barges
were lost, and the decision will prove prec-
adapf
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28
Reed on the Situation.
The Sentiment of the Republican Caucus
onthe Senate Tariff Bill.

Washington despatch to New York Tribune.l
Mr.. Reed made speech which appeared
the caucus, and his arguments made deep
impression on the minds of the wavering
and doubtful Representatives, who seem to
think that bad Tariff bill is preferable to
none at all. In substa ce, he said:
The first duty of the caucus is to be care
full and avoid precipitate action. There is
no necessity of the caucus acting as if some
terrible harm will happen To the country nm
less something IS done. 1t may be bad
thing sometimes to act, instead of good
thi g. We all desire revision of the tariff,
but good revision of the tariff; and bad
revision of the arff we must never consent
to. The Republicans of the three great
States assure us that their industries are IL
able to be ruined if the Senate bill is passed
without any modification If, upon examn-
alton, this should prove to be true, the fact
that the indus ries in our own States are
protected ought not to control our action.
The tariff which strikes some industries and
destroys others would deserve all the epi-
thets OF denunciatiOn which are used by the
Democrats themselves. The prosperity of
all the States are so interviewer that any
udh III w OtlC Will Dc db W all. II Is
untrue to say that the Senate bill is Re
publican bill, for all of the obnoxious clauses
were pnt in by Democratic efforts and Dem
ocratic votes, assisted by one or two Repub-
licans.
If we can get the Senate bin into confer
ence we may have it so modified that it will
be good bill. Our prosperity under the
presenttarif has been at least sufficiently
great to enable us to endure it for years to
come rather than run the risk of any helter-
skelter legislation to disturb the prosperity
which we now have. Complaint is made
that we have very little time for examina-
tion. That is true; the reason of which is
apparent to the whole country. The Demo-
c. ats have wasted in talk the time which
should have been devoted to careful ex-
animation Of the details of the tariff. This
the country understands, and it is wise
enough not to ask us to do more than to cut
according to the cloth we have.
The ihree great States referred to by Mr..
Reed are Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sew.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

THE recent glowing accounts of the i'm
mense forests and numbering interests in
Washington Territory in the neighborhood
of Puget Sound may be regarded with emf
nent satisfaction as one of the many indica-
tions that our country has really not yet be-
gun to exhaust its natural resources of COM
mercial timber, and that. especially in the
gold and silver mining regions Of the Pacific
coast, there is no danger at all of The scar
city of that cnmmoditv.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

GOVERNOR Buffers first veto, that of a
bill incorporating safe deposit vault COM
pany, meets with commendation. The bill
was loosely drawn, and apparently afforded
the company facilities to act as savings
bank without subjecting itself to the super
vision of the bank commissioners.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28
STATE OF MAINE.
HARBOR COMMISSIONERS NOTICE,

Notice is hereby given TO all
TINT ars. DIR. ging or may hereaf-
ter DIRE dge pn The waters of this
barber tnat all dumping ON the
grounds marked out I'm Hus>ey's
Sound. snust be done between sun-
Use and sunSs q.
Per order Harbor Commissioners
fen f5-d2w j. MCCLELLAN. Chairman.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

O'DoNovAN Rosa says in an interview
that he is proud of the stand he has taken
for Irish liberty IF Mr. R9ssa wants to
take the ''stand'' that will help Irish liberty
the most, let him stand on railroad track
in front of an express train running about
forty miles an hour.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

THE general belief that the men on trial
for the Star Route frauds are guilty is prob
ably well founded. Nevertheless, it is evil
dent that Witness Rerdell is a liar of the
first magnitude.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

CONGRESS has done notably wise act in
terminating the fisheries articles of the
Treaty of Washington. For the privileges
granted in those articles we got no adequate
consideration.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

MASSACHUSETTS thinks of banishing the
English sparrow. That quarrelsome bird is
certainly a nuisance, but very little one
in comparison with some other nuisances
tolerated by the old commonwealth.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

RAILROAD aetuaries have figured i. out
that during the year 1882 ne arly four and
half millions of passengers were carried for
every passenger who was killed. These are
figures which convey a very vivid idea of the
safety of railroad travel When fatal aeci-
dent occurs, the whole country hears of it,
and tremor of alarm thrills the nerves of
the travelling public; but people generally
do not realize how infrequently such acct
dents occur compared with the vast volume
Of daily travel. The fact is that less danger
is involved in railroad travel than in travers-
Ing on foot the crowded streets of such cit
les as London and New York, and the mod
ern mode of locomotion is far safer than The
old stage coach system of transportation.
JUDGE White of Pittsburg recently said
from tie bench in relation to stock gam
bling: Gambling in gold, stocks, grain, oil,
ets.. is one of the greatest vices OF the
ase. Parties and the public should know
that all pretended purchases and sales 'on
margins are nothing but gambling transac-
tions, immoral in their chara cter and ex-
ceedingly pernicious in their tendency.
The courts are not open to enforcing such
contracts, and viii give no relief to those
who voluntarily participate in them and be-
come the victims of unprincipled specula-
tors
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

RIcHELIEU Robinson rendered himself ri
diculous again in the House yesterday His
capacity for that sort of thing appears to be
unlimited.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

Iris unlikely that further amendments to
the LIQUOR law will be passed by the present
Legislature. The disposition is to await the
popular vets on the constitutional amend
mens. This is the wiser policy to pursue.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28
PROPOSA
PROPOSALS FOR BUILDING.

THE undersigned Building Committee will receive
ing on III lot in Wat ryi le known as the Wstsr.
vi lie Cl ssica Institute Lot The Coptractors arc,
to fu nish all Lab 7 and Material The Proeosals
may be for lhe whole bined, or for the Mas n
Work and Car. 81 te ,-Wo,k separately. Proposals
VII also ee received for the amount the Con ract rs
same to be removed. The Pa and Specineations
may may, DC seen at he III g Of f. Webb, at Water
tle' .' ~ AZ we once or Fassett Stew Ms arehi
que COMMITTEES at Waieryille, Mo The Committee,
reserve ne tight TO reject any or all bids Proro-
the ElmWood Hotel, in Waterville at leyen O'Clock
EDMUND F. WEBB) Rui,dino
MosEs GIDDINGs ! citts
JOSEPH kICKER NViAiNVee~
Waterviile, Me. Feb. 10, 1888
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The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

ToMBIGBEE, alleged Augusta correspon-
dent of the Argus, is possessed of varied
and very entertai ing amount of misinform-
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

THE discussion of the capital punishment
question drags its slow length along in the
House at Augusta, and a vote was not
reached yesterday. One will be taken to-
day The result is doubtful. Though there
is unquestionably an increasing feeling in
favor of the death penalty it is doubtful if a
majority of the people of the State desire its
restoration. The crime Of murder is more
frequent in Maine of late years, and so it is
in States where the penalty is DEATH For
this increase some other cause must exist
and the argument from statistics does not
demonstrate the theorem on which it is
based. But it may with some reason be
argued that the lives of deliberate murderers
are justly forfeit to the State, that they
should be exterminated like other ferocious
beasts. and that it is unjust 10 call upon the
community which has suffered by them to
support them in health and comfort.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28
REFORM CLUBS OF MAINE.
QUARTERLY CONVENTION.

The Quarterly Convention Of the Reform Clubs
Of Maine will be held at Lisbon, on Wednesday and
Thursday, March and s. 1888.
II is earnestly hoped that every Club in the state
vii be represented.
The usual reduction of fares on the Maine Central
and Grand Trunk may be expected.
Per order of STATE COMMITTEE.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

The Congressional apportionment bill has
become law. So that vexed question is set
tled--and settled to the satisfaction of the
greater portion Of the State.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

Mr.. SUNSET Cox of New York says tina
81 members of the next House have volun-
tarily offered to vote for him for speaker.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

THE Washington detective force appears
TO be house of thieves. The latest re-
yealed exploits of two of It's members is the
stealing of the Christiancy diamonds.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

PRESIDENT ARTHUR is making excellent
nominations. One Of the best recently made
is that of Foster as minister to Spain.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

Iris evident that Mr. Reed carries too
heavy guns for the Democratic leaders in
the House.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28

TIE pulpit and the counting house do
not appear to be congenial companions any
more in the present day than they were cen
turies ago, when the presence of money
changers in the temple was denounced.
The collapse of another financial venture
under priestly supervision, without any di-
rect implication of commercial crookedness
beyond that of utter incapacity to manage
business affairs and handle the money of
other people safely, not to say profitably, is
much to be regretted, since its tendency is
to discourage the habits of thrift and econo-
my which savings banks are designed TO in
eulcate. The mishap, however, furnishes
another strong argument in favor OF the
postal savings bank project, with its unfail-
ing security and unequalled advantages to so
mobile a population as that of the United
States.
The Portland daily press., 1883-02-28
BEST BLOOD PURIFIER.

have used your CUTIoURA remedies in several
ca-es f Eczema, Moist and Dry retter and cured
them all. Your CUTICURA REsoLvENT, SO far as
my supply eIa les me to test it, has, in my hands,
exceeded in efficacy AID efficiency any Alternative
com und (bood pnrifi n j have ever made use of
in an active practice OF 80 Years duration
Z. N. ECKER, M. D.
JACK SONYILLE. PA.