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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-24
THE PRoHIBITIONISTs.
National Convention to be Held i'm Pitts.
burg AIay 2fst

CHICAGO, Jan. 23.-Tne national committee
OF the Prohibit Home Protection Party have
issued an invitation to all citizens of the
United States, without distinction, who are in
favor OF the prohibition by the national
government of the manufacture, sale or i'm
portation OF alcoholic beverages, to send dele
gates to national convention of the Prohibi-
ton Home Protection Party to be held in
Pittsbury, Pa, on the 21st of May, 1884, to
nominate candidates for President and Vice
President.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-24

An genealogical authority says that "zsn-
pilarotc ZIONIST" is the proper name TO apply to
a roller skater. 1t certainly looks good deal
like that, when you get a fellow started who
don't exactly understand the business.
Maker OF musical Instruments, cheerfully
rubbing his hands: There, thank goodness,
the bass fiddle is finished at last. After .
pause: ZACH Himmel, II haven't gone and
left the glus pot insidel"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-24

Perkins stove foundry at Port jackson, New
York, was burned Tuesday. Loss $4,000 on
patterns alone.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-24
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-24

DUBLIN, Jan. 23.-The Irish Times despatch
stating that the British home office and police
have been warned that steps are being taken
to perpetrate outrages in England in coDDec-
nection with the New York Irish Worlds
"O'Donnell's vengeance fund" 1t Is stated
that of e1So0 which has been subscribed TO
that fund, between $500 and $500 were for
warded to London last week.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-24
FOREIGN.
Great Gale i'm England.

LONDON, Jan. 23.-Heavy gales prevail in
London and throughout the country. Tue
wind Is also blowing with great force in the
channel The gale seriously interferes with
the transmission Of kilograms. Ten persons in
various parts of the kingdom have lost their
lives during the gale.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-24
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

WEATHER INDICATIONS
WASHINGTON, Jan. %.
The indications for New England are
increasing cloudiness, rains or snow, winds
shifting to northerly. rssing barometer, preced-
cd I'M eastern portion by slight fall, generally
colder weather.
Cautionary signals at Eastport.
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-24
LATEST MARINE NEWS.

Rise. Fall.
sToo small to measure.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-24
Maine Ponoioxieal society.

BRUNSWICK, Jan. 23.-At the forenoon ses-
sion OF the Maine State Pathological Society
and farmers institute, Hon. 2. A. Gilbert, de-
livered an able address on "Co-opsrative
creameries".
The afternoon sessionwas occupied with dis
oussions which were interesting and profta-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-24

Captain Baker of the Storm King, acting un-
a patrol of the island shore from Squibnocket
30 Gay West Chop. This patrol includes IL
men, six being Gay Head Indians, and the
others trusty men from Vineyard Haven.
They will report to Captain Baker tomorrow
morning.
BOSTON,, Jaa. pa despatch from Kings
supposed that G. Willett, steerage passenger
lost on the City of Columbus was the fugitive
murderer of Mellard. G. A. Willett, who was
passenger on the City of Columbus, belongs
in Canning, N. s., whore he lived and lett a
wife and several children. About five years
ago he was employed by his brother, George
Wilett, then carpenter and builder at the
South End, this city, but after his brother give
up business G. a. returned to Canning, where
he has since resided until he left to seek en-
ployment in Florida.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-23
A Generous Senator.

From washington Letter.J
While talking with Senator Wade
Hampton last evening daughter of the
late Reverdy johnson came up with an
autograph album in her hand. This
book was only for the names of United
States senators. The purpose of this
lady is to raise little contribution to-
wards the founding of hospital for help.
less Southern soldiers at Richmond, a
work so laudable that it would be like an
offense to argue the duty and glory Of it.
This book is to be- sold when filled to any
one who will pay the most for it. Each
senator has subscribed IS. But the one
thing which the beautiful lady with radi.
ant face came in haste to tell Hampton
was this: One United States senator
was he from the North? was he from the
South? the East or the West? it was q
secret, and q precious one and sacred
this senator modestly set down the little
SIS, not willing to be known as giving
more then some of his fellow senators
who are not rich, and then handed her q
check large enough to set two decimals
to the right. Alb! there is heart in this
world after all, and don't you despair
for humanity.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-23
Developing the Udder of a Cow.

"
It does not usually occur to breeders
that the udder is as susceptible of de.
velOpments as are the muscles of the
trotting-bred colt. Any gland or mus
Gle can be invigorated and made to
take on more than its natural growth
by degree of handling. Develop
ment comes OF circulation to the part.
and tree motion invites blood, while
inactivity does not. While the car
penter is using the saw or plane, the
right arm receives largely more blood
than while at rest. So, likewise, if the
udder is handled, whether it has milk
in it or not, blood will flow to it in an
increased quantity, adding to the It's
sues of the part.
This would be the necessary result in
the case of q young heifer as will as of
the grown up COW. A small lump,
or thiokening Of any of the soft tissues
upon part, in the case of person, is
sometimes made to grow and develop
into large tumor in few months,
SIMPLY by handling it frequently. The
udder of q young heifer never having
bred, can be made to secrete milk, by
exciting flow Of blood to it, in the
manner named. As the COW, under
our forcing modes, is, SO far as her
udder is concerned, thrown into an arti-
6cal state, this organ taking an excess
siye action, it is question worthy Of
consideration, whether the gland may
not have q degree of immunity impart-
ed to it by toughening the structure
through handling, as the muscles
ne xI,< alt $50 okron n,&hnnn1 I,xrs$c oxroro
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-23

use. As the COW, or heifer, approaches
the completion Of CESSATION, Che udder
receives 8 large flow Of blood to it, takes
on high excitement, and it is q ques-
ton worthy Of being settled by careful
trials, whether or not the udder of the
heifer may safely be increased in vol
ume by manipulation, rendering it at
the same time more nearly proof than
now, against the sensitive and irritable
state into which it is liable to drift
when its functions are brought into
active play. Even though this be not
done until the udder Of the heifer be-
gins to spring, as she nears calying,
there can be no question as to our
ability to enlarge it's capacity for milk
giving, while at the same time we &C.
custom the heifer to this handling, and
when she drops her calf it will be
found that she is already trained to
submit to the milking process, and will
stand quiet under it.-Natio,aal Live
Stock Journal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-23
A Story About DIR. McCOsh.

tffOm the P1ttsburg ChrOn1cle-Teegraph.1
There is good story told about the
report of a lecture delivered by the cele-
brated DR.. McCosh of Princeton College.
1t was delivered many years ago, when
the papers of New York were Just intro
ducing photography reports. The Her
aid prided itself above all others on the
extent and correctness of its OVID, and
daily called editorial attention TO them
in an egotistical way that was peculiar
to the elder Bennett. A young Irishman,
a photographic reporter just arrived in
this country, was employed by the Her
aid to report lecture of DR.. McC osh's
that was attracting universal attention.
In the course of his lecture the doctor
had occasion to make tho illustration:
eff you put q red hot coal on the back
of a terrapin he is bound to travel. y
Catching the remark phonetically aud
never having heard of q terrapin, but
thinking the expression fine American
ism. the reporter jotted it down. When
he came to write out bis notes he puz-
zlea over it for time, but finally fshed
out eff you put red hot pole on the
back of eternity he is bound to travel, !"
and feeling that this was incomplete, he
added, with true Hibernian eloquence,
'whithersoever the tide of revolutionary
warfare may lead him. A previously
written editorial called attention to the
beauty and correctness of the report,
which. it is said, planted the seeds Of
the elder Benefits demise.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-23
Continued from last ueek.)
How Watch Cases are Made.

Imitation always follows successful
article, and imitation is one of the best
proofs of real honest merit; and thus it is
that the James Boss Gold Watch Case has
its imitators. Buyers can always tell the
genuine by the trademark of a crown, from
which is suspended pair of ~1.nr x.ax
scales. Be sure BOTH crown and < x
scales are stamped in the cap of the watch
case. jewelers. are very cautious about en-
dorsing an article unless they not only kaosO
that it is good, but that the character of
the manufacturers is such that the quality
Of the goods will be Kept fully up to standard.
WILLIAMSBURG, Pa, Feb. 10, 1882
The James Boss Gold Watch Cases go like hot
cakes. Each one sell sells another. Don't need
to recommend them: they sell themselves. One of
in 20 and it is good ever.
case do not hesitate to give my own guarantee
pecially with the new and improved cases, which
seem to be everlasting. JESSE T. LITTLE, Jetoeler.
New BRUNSWICK, NJ, Jan {, 1888.
This gold case, No. 6666, known as the James Boss
Gold Watch Case into my possession about 1858,
has been in since that time, and is still in good
case when bought it, and its condition shows that
the case has really OutwOrn the movement, which ia
playedout MARTIN A. HOWELL.
Of Board Of Directors ". J. r. II. d Trans Co.
Send stamp Keystone Watch Case Factories, Pha.
depha Pa Illustrated Pamphlet showing how
Jsmes Boss and Keystone Watch Cases made.
Ito be C01tinued)
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-23
THE HAPPIEsT DAYS.
By ARTHUR WENTWORTH EATON.

A4S2A2 S~SA
BY ARrHuR WENTWORTH EATON.
They ware the days when life WAS new,
And the world was N untried.
When the gsyest and sweetest flowers grew
Thick, by the worlds roadside.
The prizes Of life were all to win,
But my heart and my hands were strong,
And my ears, ~ they caught the far-off din,
Heard only welcome song.
When the fair blue heaven that stretched abov,
So neighborly seemed to be,
And thought the STARS were lamps Of love
Hung In the sky for me.
When never . doubt Of my childish creed
Crept into my childish mind, ...
And wondered that had found truth, indeed,
While all the world was blind. "A :
Little knew of the heaven above, E
Little Of Truths wide sphere, u
Part Of my thoughts were chained to love,
Part to slavish fear. * "a ---- ~ - -
And mourned that any could question this.
That seemed to me so plain,
That the good should come to endless bliss,
And the bad to endless pain.
But when doubled the human scheme,
And questioned it part by part,
The universe seemed to melt to q dream,
And grew sick at heart.
And there never dawned 80 dreary day
On all my winding road,
As the day when my lips refused to pray,
And my teart lost faith in God.
When saw that the world was dark and sad,
That many were sick and poor,
Tho 1t takes 60 little to make men glad,
And God has such boundless store.
When saw go many who could not be
Earnest and pure and brave,
omany whom God, it seemed to me,
Had never tried to save.
But while the lines Of my early creed
Have loosened their hold on me,
Fnever have lost the sense Of need,
Nor the sense Of mystery.
And deeper and deeper grows my faith
In the things cannot prove,
A life that is free from the blight Of death,
And power that works by love.
I have no measuring line for God,
know no more Of his plan
Than the little flower that grows from the sod
Knows Of the life OF man.
And all I can do is to hope that God
Shall be greater at last than III.
TO trust that life with its storm and food
Is ruled by higher will.
And that, by-and-by, in a world that is new,
In a life that is all untried.
hhall pluck With q courage glad and true.
Flowers on every side;
And glad in the strength of a new-found youtb.
And glad IN the travelled ways,
shall climb the coveted hills OF Truth,
And find my happiest days.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-23
Killing the Killers.


Last night a cleverly executed scheme,
deceiving large number of gentlemen,
was consummated at the Haymarket
Theater. About ten days back, it ap-
pears, each received missive, in Ia.
dy's handwriting, which ran as follows:
@'The writer OF this is anxious to have
the pleasure of meeting you. She will
be at the Haymarket Theater on Tues
day, 18th March next. If you will be in
the stalls you will not fail to recognize
her but to show that this meeting is
agreeable, will you wear button-hole
of v1olets and lilies Of the valley, and
she will wear scarlet geraniums."
So successful was this letter, that two
advertisements in the ''aeony' column
OF the Times requested the lady to send
her address in confidence.
About 8 o'clock last evening the first
victim appeared on the scene. Gallant
~, yet cautiously, he looked round for
the lair unknown, when to his dismay
he noticed other men dropping in, one
by one, all bearing the floral sign. Men
came from Aldershot, from Brighton,
and from the country, many of them
wearing scarlet geraniums in place of the
Parma violets, which made them the
more conspicuous. It was not long be-
fore the Bancroft exchequer was en-
riched by the appearance Of at least six
ty victims, many of whom were acnte
enough l. to hide their flowers in their
hats, to be assumed if the fair wearer of
scarlet should be discerned. Before the
end of the first act it was very patent
that ''sell" of the first water had been
perpetrated two noble lords, the chief
character in the Irish breach of promise
case, and others equally we'll known be-
ing among the gay LotAarios. The
dress circle was full Of men who, having
received letters themselves, had COM
pared notes, and detecting the joke, Sc.
cured this coign of vantage to enjoy the
scene. It was not necessary to look very
far for those by whom the scheme was
originated. A certain stage box was
graced by the presence of well-known
form, and the party took the keenest in
terest in the successive entries of the
ladY killara
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-23
FARM, FIELD AND FIRESIDE.
H0usa.Clannin~

House-C Cleaning.
Taxing down the pictures,
busting OF the WALL
Not ct homo this morning
Should there be acall. !" .5
Toast and eggs for breakfast
Things turned upside down
Wife and gill Z jawing-
Husband skips for town.
Taking up the carpets
Tacks and dust for lunch
Boy, for asking questions,
Gets from ma . punch.
Washing of the windows-
Doors oil open-wide-
She with pail and dust-pan
Used to be my bride.
No fire in the furnace
Bell goes on . ring
Cleaning house to-day, MN,
First day Of the spring."
Night . doctor Calling
Wife done up In bed,
Husband scoots for drug store; i.
Clerk asks who is dead.
Night reporters item:
Coroner had . ring
For stiff found doatinq-
First one Of the spring."
Verdict of the jury
Foreman, ally old mouse
Suicide from torment. ~.
Caused by cleaning house.
Chicago Herald.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-23
To Make Fine Maple Sugar

I have studied the maple. and ex-
perimented with it for fifteen years.
have drawn it's sap from circumference
to center, and from fifteen feet below
the stump or bottom of the tree to the
top, or among the limbs thirty-six feet
high. I have found that sap varies in
three respects in all parts of every tree.
It differs in color, sweetness and density.
From any ordinary sized tree I can
draw seven varieties of sap, and from a
very large tree can take ten varieties.
which shall be so distinct one from an
other that no two persons can mistake
their difference.
I have tested this with several indi.
viduals on several occasions, and always
with the same results. Two men NAV
bore the same sugar place; one will
make white sugar and the other dark
sugar, the only difference being in the
boring.
1t is fact that the deeper we bore the
darker is the sap and sugar. Sap near
the center of trees is little better than
water; it weighs the same, two pounds
and one ounce per quart by my cup,
while our ordinary and average sap from
our store-tubs weigh two pounds and II
ounces. Again the sap increases in
density as we go up the tree, until, as
have found by experiment., it may
weigh two pounds and seven ounces,
taken from the top of the tree or among
the limbs. Asecond-growth sugar place,
bored half an inch deep, is capable Of
making very nice sugar, and the trees
are injured but little.
Contrary to- the common opinion.
white sugar can be made through the
entire sugar season by drawing sap
from the surface, which can be done by
moving the tub and tapping in new
place. Two shallow holes will not do
the injury that one. deep one will. If
one has q second.growth sugar orchard
on dry, rocky land, scattered in open
country, with plenty of room for sun.
shine between the trees, with short
bodies and low bushy tops; and if he
uses the double-tinned spouts, or the
Eureka, boring on the south side of the
trees one-half inch deep, supplied also
with the white metal tubs, and if he has
for boiling apparatus an improved
style evaporation, he is armed and
equipped for making fancy article of
maple sugar.-E W., in american
Cultivat0r.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-23
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC R. r,

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Its main line runs from Chicago TO Council
Mons Roek
Liberty. Iowa City .Marengo, Brook!yn, Srinneli,
Des Moines tths capital OF Iowa). Stuart, Allan.
tic. and Av0ea; with branches from bureau
Junction to rsSra; tsad RSSon e Se9Tnsn
Centrcville, Princeton. Trenton, Gallatin, Came.
ron, Leayenworth, Atchison. and Kansas City;
Washington to Si9ourRey. Oska!oosa, and Knox
tensport. independens Eidon, ottssxs EDDY
vile. 0skaloosa, Pella Monroe. and Des Moinesi
Newton to Monroe; Des Moines TO lndianola and
Wiaterset Atlantic to Lewis and Audu6Sa; and
Railroad. which owns, and operates through
line from Chicago into the State Of Kansas.
Through Express Passenger Trains, with Full.
Ss s
SON. Through cars are also run between Mt!wau::
he ann ka9so. Gty via the ana
The Great Rock Island" is megniacent!y
equipped Its road bed is simply perfect, and it,
track is laid with steel rails
of enjoying your meals. while passing over the
beautiful praires of Illinois and Iowa. In one Of
our magnificent Dining Cars that accompany all
Through Express Trains; You get an entire st
for soventy-fva cents
Approaching the fact that majority OF the
people prefer separate apartments Tor dlnerent
Of this line warrantinR it) we are pleased 70 an-
nOunce that this Company runs Pullman Palace
Sleeping Cars for sleeping purposes, and Palacs
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all Ticket Agents In the United States
NJ For Information not obtalnAblo 0t VG
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Gen'l Superintsndsot
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-23

anty: and my t1anceo, who Dick aaks II
the prettiest woman he ever saw, us 90.
cut up by my brutal behavior and the
note ] left that she ran away, and br .
long time they thought she had dro1ned
herself. OF course there was q bigsen-
sation, and every body denounced me.
Dick, q coWardly knave, hadn't the nrve
to tell the truth about It and acknwl-
edge his part in the affair, but thegirl
who abetted his iendish deception Vent
straight to my uncle and told him every
thing as soon as she heard I was Ron.
ssWhen he saw how it was he STORE
that we both should be found, deal or
alive, and If we were alive the marriage
should be contaminated. They Stated
detectives after us and advertised us
everywhere, and at last they got on the
track of the girl and they've traced her
to this very town. Think of it! lick
says they are sure she is here. sndIhe
was here looking for her when he abcj.
dentally stumbled upon me-. Tho I'll
find her, of course; it is only a question
of a few hours, and then I must |be
dragged up like school boy that las
been playing hockey, and married Is q
wife Of some other mans choice, or
leave here between two days and giveap
q good position"
He turns toward her, but she man
ages the palm. leaf SO that he does lot
see her face, and asks presently in O
hesitating way:
"But if she is as pretty as they sly
she is and -you would get the monty
besides, why do you object?"
"Because am in love with somebody
else, and l'm done with matrimonial No.
gotl atlons by proxy. 1 will attend to my
own love affairs hereafter. J"
He proceeded to carry out this resolu'
ton by lnslnuating an arm between the
shelving and the slight figure that j
resting against 1t. "
"lVe been in love with somebody
else ever since ! found her crying in !
corner not thousand miles from here,
and it she can only say the same of me
LII whistle the fortune down the winds
and defy all the detectives in Christeu-
dom." r.
He draws bis arm a little closer about
the yielding figure, and, screened from
view by the swaying fringe of gloves, he
feels safe in bringing the other arm int,
position. so forming q complete circnit