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The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

The cable dispatches have given the Sou
dan zereba rest and are now bringing the
startling news that ga cabinet-meeting is be-
ing held" For thirteen days in succession
the cable has made this announcement with
out stating what the cabinet did at the meet
Ing that was ''being held"
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

A woman's suffrage petition was borne to
the Kansas legislature by three little girls,
one at each end Of the long document, the
third at the middle. The young folks col
nmns in the newspapers comment upon this
as an innocent and healthful amusement and
one that should become popular among the
children
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

Those doleful philosophers who tell us
that the worlds population is increasing so
rapidly that very soon there will not be
room for us all, must have collected their
statistics without reckoning on the sham
buildings that are just now being discovered
in New York.
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

The Democrats seem TO be trying to exc
cuts the same man@uvre 10 regard to the
liquor question that they performed a few
years ago Ia relation to the currency. They
were then for hard money and soft money
and they ara now for prohibition and free
rum. Anything and everything for votes.
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

Seven New York city politicians are after
Sunset Cox's congressional seat. Six of
them think that they ought to be elected be.
cause they are funny.
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21
STATE OF rrATNE,.
BY TExE GO VERN0R.
A APPROXIMATION

The faith of our ancestors in the power of Prayer
to Almighty God and realization of entire de-
psRdence upon His mercy. led them early to set
apart day Of public fasting humiliation and pray.
err which has become an honorsd usage and when
accom- panied by an humble and sincere belief that
He Is one "who heareth prayer" is profitable ia its
continuance.
1 therefore, by advice and consent of the Execu-
tive Council annoint
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

Maine has many advantages and there are
masy reasons why man should rejoice to
be a resident of this State. The present
season adds another to the long list. In
most other States the Legislatures are still in
session
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

The Argus shows by statistics that the
number of arrests for drunkenness have de-
creased since Marshal Andrews began to
enforce the prohibitory law. That is graft
flying. But what pity it is that Marshal
Andrews did not begin to enforce the law
two years ago. 1t was just as much law
then as it is now, but Mr.. Andrews virtually
ignored II, making only two seizures in two
months and those from women who could
not vote
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

Sir Peter Lumsden's report of the affair at
Penjdeh fatty contradicts Gen. Komarof's
account. That is to say instead of the AT
ghans being the aggressors, as Komaroff de-
clared, the Russians deliberately brought on
the fight. Sir Peters report will probably
greatly stimuli ate the war fever in England,
as IT confirms the suspicion of Russia's du-
plicIty and indicates that che is determined
to have what she wants in Central Asia un-
less stubbornly resisted.
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

Another six-days roller skating race has
been arranged in New York. Death seems
to have no more terror for six-day skaters
than 1t does for the members of the Illinois
legislature.
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21
Ladies', Gents and ChIIdren'S Hosiery.

facilities
Hosiery
pair -
Cashmere i'm Scar.
Hose
Navy sAue Brown CARDINAL
pair.
pmTr e1eayv
ribbed ~'
40 dozen Misses Hose Blue BEac Light
Pink an Finished
prices for Hose iAe
A. ID. BUTLER, No. 2A7 Middle Street.
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

The telephone monopoly has got into poll
ties out West, and there will now be mere
wire pulling than ever.
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

The Portland Globe thinks the most eligi-
BILE site In the city for the proposed county
buildings is directly opposite the City Hall,
on the lot bounded by Congress, Exchange,
Federal and Market streets.
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21
IL FL u r E 8 s.
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 81.

We do net read anonymous letters and eommun-
cations. 2he name and address OF the writer are in
al cases indispensable not necessarily for pubCa-
ten bat as guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
uunications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

1t is just beginning to dawn upon a num-
Der of gentlemen located in and about Wash
ington. that an offensive partisan is just as
likely to be Democrat as Republican, aud
Just az present little more SO.
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

1t would be quite unjust to Judge Mr..
Louis Riel the Canadian rebel by the
pictures we see in some of the pictorial jour.
nails of the day.
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

The foreign war fizzle and Gen. Grants
recovery force the newsboys to fall back on
murders and prize fights.
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

Some of the English journals are amusing
themselves by wondering what good many
English soldiers would be doing to-day if
Beaconsfeld stood where Gladstone stands
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

The Boston Post says: ga short time since
the leading Democrats of Portland rendered
dinner to Mr.. G. P. Kimbal, which ill
health compelled him to decline. Mr. Kim
ball bas just been appointed consul at Stuff
CART, and has fine opportunity to retarn
the compliment by rendering dinner to the
leading Democrats of Portland" The Post
Is apparently not posted on that dinner.
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

The Canadians are breathing easier on the
strength OF information from what source
does not appear, that Riel aud his half
breeds will not fight Gen. Middleton's
troops. But it would be well for them not
20 cherish too high hopes. Indians are
treacherous, and if good opportunity
should present itself to draw Middleton into
an ambuscade it is not at all likely that they
would neglect to take advantage of it.
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21

The Chemist Of The New York State Agricultural Society
FINDS
AMMONIA y W ROYAL BIAIlEIIIlTt POWDER

AND SAYS:
Ammonia is used baking powder make the powder
cost less have always been opposed to it's employment
considering that it is of pure baking powders
would article recommend it,"
And adds 4The results of complete analysis of several
packages of Ceveands Superior Baking Powder purchased by
myself OF grocers pure and
heathl materials manufactured and in every parc
lar reliable and wholesome Having examination
of the materials used in manufacturing Powder
for years it affords pleasure without
reserve"
VIVA. M. HABGRSHAW, r. C. s..
Analyst for the Chemical York; State
Agricultural Society; Produce
Exchange.
The Portland daily press., 1885-04-21
OPENING
OF
Young Mems Stylish spring suits.
OF

Our present exhibition in our large
Clothing Window is made up Of
Young MEMS Stylish Four Button
Cutaway Suits in Fancy Checks,
Brown Whipcord DiagonaIs, etc.
Young Mems Sack Suits in modest
Checks and striking PIaids. Of these
goods purchased In the New York
market during the past thirty days,
to meet the requirements of the Fine
Clothing trade, we pronounce the
cloth fine in quality, the garments
elegant in fit, and the workmanship
most thorough. An inspection is So
Iicited, and glance at our window
display invited.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16
A Millionaire's Appetite.
lExchange.I

Cook" the new gastronomic news- paper. has learned from a personal in- terview what Jay Gould eats chiefly.
 "P Plain meats and vegetables, good bread and butter, good milk, sometimes porrldge or gnts for breakfast, satisfy me-" he says. "As you may suppose, i find my time filled up pretty well with business, and l certainly find that I can get along better when my food is the plainest of the plain. have never lost my fondness for the country food used to be accustomed to in my boyhood. and l think could relish one of those smid- night melons as well now as did then. although should probably eat 1t at a different time. Elaborate dinners are terrible things. I remember once being at one and eating some dish, forget the name of it, which was very good. but alter which was sick for a week. Now when go to them take little soup if it is plain, piece of roast meat or game aud some plain potatoes, if can get them. If not, some peas or in fact any vegetable, provided it is without sauce. tor have found that these sauces, which tbey put on what would otherwise be good, spoil the food-at least for me. For the rest of the time l sit at the table. play with something on my plate and pass the time as we'll as l can"
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16
The Early Orators.
Bill Me, in The Argonaut.

ibill Me, ln The Argonaut.
 Demosthenes was not born an orator He struggled hard and failed many times. He was homely, and he stam. mered in his speech, but before his death they came to him for hundreds of miles to get him to open their county fairs and jerk the bird of freedom bald-headed on the Fourth of July.
 Demosthenes had a short breath, a hesitating speech, and his manners were very ungraceful. To remedy his stam. mering he filled his mouth full of peb. bles and howled his sentiments at the angry sea. Plutarch says that Demos themes made dismal failure of his first speech. This did not discourage him He finally became the smoothest orator Tn that country, and it was no uncommon thing for him to fill the First Church of Athens full.
 l must nov leave Demosthenes and pass on rapidly to speak of Patrick Henry. MT Henry was the man who wanted liberty or death. He preferred liberty, though. If he couldn't have liberty he wanted to die, but he was in no great rush about it. When the tyran, asked him what style of death he wanted he said that he would rather die of ex- treme old age. He was willing to wait, he said. He didn't want to go unpre- pared, and he thought it would take him eighty or ninety years more to prepare, so that when he was ushered into another world he wouldn't be ashamed of himself.
 When he started in he was gentle, mild, and quiet in his m amer, but later on, carrying his audience with him, he at last became enthusiastic. He thundered, he roared, he whooped, he howled, he Jared the windows, he sawed the air, he split the horizon with his clarion notes, he tipped over the table, kicked the lamps out of the chandeliers, and smashed the big bass viol over the chief fiddIer's head.
 Oh, Demosthenes was business when he got started. It will be long time be- fore we see another off-hand speaker like Demosthenes, and l, for one, have never been the same man since learned of his death.
 One hundred and ten years ago Pat rick Henry said: "Sir, our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war i. in- evitable, and let it come. repeat it, sir, let it comel'
 In the spring of 1860 used almost the same language. So did Horace Greeley. There were four or five of us who got our heads together and decided that the war was inevitable, and consented to let 1t come.
 Then it came. Whenever there is large, inevitable conflict floating around waiting for permission to come, it devolves on the great statesman and bald-headed literati of the nation to avoid all delay, It is the duty of the great warrior to howl for war and then hold some other mans coat while he fights.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16
Lord Wolseley's Bravery.

Archibald Forbes, in English Ill. Magazine
 The goth was one of the regiments des.
 tined for China which Lord Canninp's
 swift steamers contrived to catch en roEIe, and divert to India to aid in the quelling
 of the great mutiny that had broken out
 with SO fell an unexpectedness. The
 gallant Perthshine Greybreeks were included in the column which Sir Colin
 Campbell led from Cawnpore to the
 second relief of Lucknow. From the
 Dilkoosha Sir Colin had sent the Black
 Watch down the slope on the Msrti-
 niere. The o3rd and the Sikhs had made
 ghastly shambles of the once beautiful
 Secunderabagh garden. Peel's men, of the Shannon" were slogging with their ships guns into the massive structure of the Shah Nujeef preparatory to carrying 1t by escalade out of the branches of tree which grew against the walls of the shrine. Wolseley, with his two comp anies of the ooh, was seat to the left to carry the Mess House." The way to its com pound wall was across the open. Wolse- ley's fellows took with them a couple of light guns. So fierce was the Sepoy fire that, to use Wolseley's own quaint collo- quialism, the bullets dropped of the tires of the wheels like peas off drum" The "Mess House" was carried with a rush, Wolseley with his own hand, in the midst of a hailstorm of bullets, pulling down the flag of the mutineers from the staf1 in its roof, and planting in its place the British banner which he carried. Be- yond the Mess House" lay the palace known as the Motee Mahal," the last rebel post separating the relieving force from their environed fellow country-folk. Wolseley led his detachment forward to the assault of the Motce Mahal," which in its turn was taken and cleared after hard lighting and severe loss This operation consummated the relief. Be- tween the "Motee Mahal" and the steam-engine post, lay only Mir. Martins house, which the rebels had evacuated. Young Moorsom ran the gauntlet, and the connection was established. It vas Wolseley who greeted the avant courier of the besieged. Wolseley took part in the hard Sighting which brought about the hnal reduction of Lucknow, and in the energetic marching and fighting all over Dude, whereby the late Sir Hope Grant contributed 90 greatly to the stamp ing out of the great revolt, on the final ex1Aguishment of which WolseIey found himself brevet ieuteu Ant colonel as the age of twenty-six. Quick promotion certainly, from ensign to lieutenant-col- oael n e;ghs years; but every sssp in rank had been honestly won at the point of the sword.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16
" Shoot Polly as She Flies,"

SAAy 4o SAG hCS,
 -Pot. vas the way it appeared in the proof slip. The arguseyed proof-reader, however, knew the quotation intended and changed 1t to read Shoot Folly as she dies."-Pote. Of course 1t was an error, yet how many are daily committing much graver errors by allowing the 6rst symp- toms of consumption to go unheeded. If afflicted with loss of appetite, chilly sem sahons, or hacking cough, it is suicidal to delay . single moment the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery the great and only reliable remedy yet known for this terribly fatal malady. Send two letter stamps for Dr. Pierce's csm- plete treatise On this disease. Address Worlds Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16
" Right Peart."

"i was right peart till the rheuma- tiz sot in," said suffering old man who lived near the swamp. Fact is, where ever you live you can't be right peart !" ii you are victim of this troublesome disease. Captain C. w. Hotsenpilier. Springfield, Odio., says Fl found great retief from infammatory rheumatism by using Browns Iron Bitters." Thousands of other people have found similar relief.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16

of misery too keen for his endurance. till within few minutes of her death.
 Then a new light shone in her fast closing eyes; she stretched out her arms as if to embrace viewless form, and with the words Dirki Dirk Free for ever, dearI Free, Dirk, freel trembling on her lips, her soul went forth rejoicing on the mystic journey to the dark here after
 .
 Soon after she had been laid so rest by the side of her husband in the cemetery. white with many memorial stone to ruined hopes, lives wrecked and shat tered, and affections sundered by the cruel hand of death, a Kafr, sentenced to the extreme penalty of the law for an atrocious murder, confessed that he, and he alone, was the cause of the French mans tragic end. He had watched, through the half drawn blind. the miser- able man toying with golden chain to which a miniature was attached, and his cupidity fired by the sight, crept on him unawares and tried to wrest it from him. A struggle ensued; the Ksfr snatched revolver from the Frenchman's hand and shot him then, fearing discovery, fled with only the miniature in his possession. The size of the bullet and the spoor were condolences only; but there is one mys. tery which will never be cleared up. Was the miniature that of Sylvester's wife D. felgraVfa
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16

The poet laureate hoots You youi' The British lion cries Boo-hoo!' While in the distance, out of view, The Russian bear exclaims "Shooi shoo v, Meanwhile the mad and hot Hindoo Is bawfing :" What will England do i' The turbaned Turk is trembling too, Fl Mahdi trills his tra Ia loo And croweth aCockadoodle doc"
 -Nfss Xsrl Aersix< -Eoxyn4I.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16

First member of stringed orchestra (so second)-s Say, Ablam, b'lieve yo' make eettah cords savin' wood n yo' do sawin' de fiddle. Le-el yah yah f'-H Haytey's BasGS.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16

Back Ache2 Hunts Remedy will cure pains in the back or loins, female dis eases, nervous presentation and kidney diseases.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16

Sick headache7 Piles, constipation, bilious headache and dyspepsia, are nj speedily cared by Hunts (Kidney and LfverI Remedy.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16

In Siam husbands put up their wives and gamble tor them. In this country they only put up their antes.--Besfow PSst.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16

She never lived to take her trial, in- deed she was unconscious from the time when by one supreme act she broke the tettezs which were wearing Dirk Sylves- tes's spirit down into the dust and ashes
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16

Diuiness cured by Browns Iron Tonic.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16

or bilisusness use Btown's Iron Tonic.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16
CHAPTER II,

CHATTER II.
 "Mark my words, boys. Sylvester's s wife will get him reprieved."
 The speaker vas lounging at the coun- ter of the Yellow Bar," |" in the Transvaal Road, and his words evoked a murmur of sympathy.
 Ever since the conviction efforts had been made in all directions to prevent the dread sentence of the law being carried out, and Sylvester's wife had become the heroine of the camp. There were few who did not believe that he shot the Frenchman Aut why should he die for an offence which was light compared with some which lay quite easily on the consciences of not few of the inhabi- tants of Kimberley5
 As the hum of approval subsided, some one directed our attention to lady walk ing rapidly in the direction of the jail. We reco gniz sd her at once, and respect fully saluted as she drew near. She stopped for moment and spoke to the foremost man, who, as she hurried on, turned and gave great shout.
 Hurrah," he cried, "Dirk's re. prievedi The little lady has just had a telegram from Cape Town. Three cheers for Sylvester's wifel"
 l doubt if the attention was pleasing, but the kindly jailer told me that she smiled for the first time since Dirk's con- viction as that cheer reached her ears, just as she stepped into the prison yard.
 Three weeks afterward had occasion to call on the governor of the jail, and as we sat in his cool little room, discussir g his Martell and smoking his Boer tobacs Q, he looked up suddenly with . troubl, q air. and said, By-the-by, do yon knt V
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16

Cour became to us and all our world "Sylvester's wife"
 They took a little villa at the extremity of Dutoitspan road a neat veranda. sur rounded residence, screened from the dust and heat by tall blue gums, and half covered with creepen and tropical flowers. Alter that we saw little of the once SO well-known Marie La Cour. Oc- casiopally at long intervals they would invite few bachelor friends myself in. cluded-to witness their bliss, and on such evenings the great bullfrogs which invaded the garden of The Oasis" as their place was rightly named, would hush their vile croaking as Syivester's wife trilled forth some gay chansonette to the accompaniment of the Broadway which Dirk specially imported for her from Europe; or sometimes the happy pair would ride over |, . picnic on the banks of the meandering Modder river, and Ms. Sylvester would deign to as- tonish us with the feats of markmanship which she could accomplish with the pretty revolvex -ivory handled and chased with gold-which Dirk had given her.
 One night, as 1 strolled into the Albert saloon for game of billiards, found q knot of diggers gathered around new axrival--A habdsome little Frenchman. vho had come to the Fields to look aiter
Sword and shield., 1885-09-26

big belt around tle middle, gives the
Trappist very queer look,
They retire at 3 p. m, but do not un-
dress, even in sickness, except to re-
move the brogans. They change un-
derclothing once Il week. They rise at
2, and Immediately chant the Office of
the Blessed Virgin. This is followed
by meditations till 3, when the Office of
the day is recited and chanted till 4.
AT this moment all who are priests in
the cloister begin to say their masses,
after which meditations andother pray
ers are continued till z, when what they
call the community mass is commenced.
AT s they burn out to work in the fields
or about the monastery and other
buildings as may be required. After
the 1880 meal they say vespers, and
then retire and sleep one hour. After
this they return to the fields again till
6, when they come home to supper,
after which they turn once more to
meditations and prayers until the hour
of retirement
They educate then own priests, and
have them ordained by the nearest
bishop. When the lay Trappist com
pletes his novitiate, which is two years,
and thinks he has vocation for the
Trappist priesthood and Trappist life
generally, he is admitted to study and
preparation by the majority vote of the
cloister. If candidate is already a
priest when he enters the order, he has
only to serve out the noyitiate and OBJ
tain the majority vote in order to be-
come Trappist priest.
When the hour of death is approach
ing any of the brethren, common ashes
are spread in the form Of cross on the
floor of the room where the patient
lies. Then the dying man is lifted out
of his bed and laid over this cross on
the bare floor, without even pillow,
and watched there until he is dead.
This is what is called dying u ''public
penitent, and all Trtppisls must lie
SO. The remains are kept about day,
and then removed on a litter by four
brothers, and buried without collin.
The trappists hardly ever live to an
old age. Their deaths are almost in
variably premature on account of their
auSterites and priyationS, and many
die within a few months after entering
the order.