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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-10-31

A Safe Blown Open at Eliot.

Especial to the Press.J
ELIOT, Oct. 30.-The safe in the railroad
station here was blown open at little past
II o'clock last night, but the robbers did not
get any booty for their pains. The books
and papers were somewhat mutilated but the
thieves found no money. There is no clue.
A Fire in New Sharon.
FARMINGToN, Oct 30.-The farm buildings
of Frank Folsom in New Sharon, about two
miles from the village on the Vienna road,
burned last night, together with all the hay
and farming tools. The contents of the
house were saved. The cause of the fire is
unknown. Loss $4,000; insured for 5000.
Drawn Over the Shaft. ~
LISBON FALLS, Oct. 3O.-Willie Allen, en-
ployed in the Farnsworth mill at Lisbon,
was caught in belt this morning and
whirled over rapidly revolving shaft. He
had one arm torn off, leg broken and other
injuries which, it is feared, may proved
fatal
A New Summer Hotel.
RocKLAND, Oct. 30.-The Rockland Bay
Point Company commenced work yesterday
on summer hotel at Jameson, the northern
point in this harbor. 1t will be completed
June 1st and contain "a rooms. A company
composed of prominent business men of this
city and western capitalists are the owners
and will lay out beautiful grounds.
Suicide by Shooting.
SKowHEGAN, Oct. 30.-Coroner Mayo, of
Fairfield, held an inquest this afternoon on
the body of Alvin Hunnewell, found dead
in Norridgewock yesterday. The jury re-
turned verdict at suicide by shooting
Arrested at RockIand.
RocKLAND, Oct. 30.-Detective w. B.
Watts, of Boston, arrived in this city this
noon and arrested James Barnes, alias F.
Clark. implicated in the robbery from VIM.
Maynard's store, in Boston, Oct. 18th.
Barnes came here Thursday and registered
at the Thorndike under the name of F.
Clark. He sported around the city pro-
Tossing to be rich mans son. On his per-
son were found two revolvers, a large
roll of bills and of jewelry, supposed to have
been stolen. Barnes was complacently
sitting in his room when the detective enter
ed and quickly secured him. Barnes is
about 20 years of age.
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man Dickie, of the Prohibition National
Committee, who replied that there was but
one course for Prohibitionists to pursue,
namely. to vote their ticket regardless of
who might be defeated or elected.
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Radeau,s Case oIscontInued.

NEW YORK, Oct. 3O.-The case of Gen.
Badeau against the widow of Gen. Grant
for $4,000 for alleged services on Grants
Memoirs, has been discontinued on consent
OF both parties
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A Letter to FIske.

NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-The Voice (Prohibi-
tion organ publishes letter from John L.
Hoover, dated Pomona, California, Aug %,
and addressed to c. b. Fiske. Prohibition
candidate for President, stating that the
vote of California would be close and that
Harrison is likely to carry the State; and
asking which is preferable, to defeat Harri-
son or Cleveland. The writer processes to
think that Harrison should be defeated, and
that Prohibitionists ought to vote secretly
for Cleveland. Gen. Fiske did not fall into
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Approved by the President.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3O.-The cabinet meet
ing today lasted about two hours. 1t was
attended by Secretaries Bayard and Endi-
colt and Attorney General Garland. AS
sistant Secretary Thompson and Commodore
Harmony, acting secretary of the navy, were
present during portion of the session dis
cussing measures for the relief of the
whalers ice bound in the arctic. The regular
session, however, was devoted mainly to the
case of the British Minister. The result is
shown in the statement furnished the press
by the Secretary Of State this evening.
After Secretary Bayard prepared this state
ment he walked to the White House and sub
mitted it to the President for his approval.
The President perused it caref ully and sug-
gested a few verbal changes in the intro
duction. When these had been made, mem
bers of the press were furnished with copies
His Lordship Says Nothing.
WASHINGTON, Oct 3O.-At the British le-
CATION this evening, access was denied to all
newspaper men who were informed that
Lord Sackville had nothing to say. An As
ISOLATED Press reporter managed, however,
to have a copy of the report of Secretary
bdydTu W buO AOoiuChb oCDb w Tile minister
After about half an hour, Lord Sackville in
person returned the copy to the waiting re-
porter and cordially expressed his thanks
for having had an opportunity to read the
report, which he said be bad not seen before.
He declined to express any opinion in regard
to it, saying: 81 have nothing to say" Lord
Sackville's face wore pleasant smile and
he did not seem in the least disturbed at the
turn affairs had taken.
Secretary Bayard tonight said the govern n
ment's action constituted a complete sever
ance of our relations with Minister West.
The Secretary did not care to enter into any
speculation as to what Great Britain would
do, or as to when new minister would be
sent here, but Lord Sackville would no
longer be recognized in any event.
Comment In New York.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3O.-Mr Blaine arrived
! from Albany tonight and was besieged by
No aars, ae n.
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ITEMS FOR hoRsEMEN.
A Total Abstinence Horse Owned In
Dakota.

Budd Doble will have the trotting mare
Fugue in his stable next year. and 1t is pre-
dicted that he will drive her to a record Of
ZIG
Viking, the celebrated $4,000 stallion
trotted at Providence, u. l., recently in
2.19t. Lady wilkins paced in 2.15l on
the same track.
Nutwood has five new 2.30 performers this
year, namely: Ontario, 2.29f; Ross s.,
2.29i; Maggie E., 2.291; Nutmeg. 2.25. and
haywood, 2.27.
Guy, 2.129, is being prepared for fast
mile in Cleveland, o., and will be sent for II
whenever Glenyille track and the weather
are suitable for supreme effort.
Q. +. Clark, Mexico, Mo-, has purchased
from +. r. Griggsby, of Maryyille, Mo-, for
$1,000. the seven-year old trotting stallion
Robert Rysdyk 6O6O, record, 2.244.
Last weeks Horseman says that +. w.
Ames, Of Mayville, North Dakota, owns a
horse that will never permit the teamster
who drives him to come near his head with
his breath smelling of liquor. When his
breath does not smell Of liquor the horse
makes no objection. The teamster is COM
PEELED to keep sober, or keep a respectful
distance from that total abstinence horse.
A report comes from Derby, Conn, the
home Of A. II. Gilbert, the owner Of the
great Alcagetta which recently fell dead at
Lexington, to the effec that in an interview
Mr.Gilbert said he believed that the FLY was
poisoned. She had never been sick day In
her life, and on the morning of the race was
as frisky and playful as ever She was left
alone about 10 minutes, the first time since
reaching the West. The odds on her at the
race were to l, and the ,Pool-buyers bad
postmortem 1t was show that every organ
was sound, and the only trouble that could
be seen was an enla-ged heart The track
followers and gamblers. Mr.. Gilbert thinks,
were guilty OF killing the fastest three-year
old in the country.
There is hardly person in this place but
what knows Old Sam, a large gray horse be-
longing to j. w. Watkins, says the Gallatin
Dispatch. Last Saturday Old Sam visited
the blacksmith shop so often that he was led
out TWO or three times during the day. Sun
day morning early he took his stand in front
OF the shop, and there he remained all day
In the hot sun, never leaving except when
led away by his owner. Monday evening.
as soon as unhitched. he left his feed, which
had been placed in the wagon bed, and again
took up his stand in front Of the blacksmith
shop. BY this time considerable crowd had
gathered at Webster's store, and IL was sug-
gested that Old Sam wanted shoeing. The
blacksmith was sent for, and on opening the
shop door Old Sam walked in and stood per-
fectly still, without bride or any one hold.
Ing him while the shoes were being nailed
on. As soon as the job was completed he
went back to his feed and has not visited the
shop since.
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Surely Republican.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9O.-William Henry
Clifford, of Portland, who is here, comment
ing on the political situation, says: MAINE
is thoroughly Republican State; we may
understand that once for all.
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Nutwood has FIVE new 2.9O performers this
year, namely; Ontario, 2.29f; Ross s.,
2.29f Maggie E., 2.29a; Nutmeg. 2.25. and
haywood, 227.
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Guy, 2.129, is being prepared for a fast
mile in Cleveland, o., and will be sent for 1t
whenever Glenville track and the weather
are suitable for supreme effort
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CLEVELANDS farewell TO SACKvILLE
The Administration Attempts to Re-
gain Lost Ground.
sayard Changes His Views Respect
ing Private Correspondence.
Her BrittanIc Majesty Not Repre-
sented at washington.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3O.-By direction of
the President, the Secretary of State today
informed Lord Sackville that, for causes
heretofore made known to Her Najesty's
government, his continuance in his present
official position in the United States is no
longer acceptable to this government and
would consequently be detrimental to the re-
lations between the two countries The
grounds of this action on the part of the
United States are stated in the report Of the
Secretary of State to the President, dated the
Doth inst, which is as follows:
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Viking, the celebrated $4,000 stallion
trotted at Providence, Z. l., recently in
2.19i Lady wilkins paced in 2151 on
the same track.
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Mean daily bar. 80 O8Ol Maximum ther. g
Mean daily ther...36.0 Minimum ther... 1926
Mean daily bum...71.o Total precip.... =. 0
MErEoROLoGICAL REPORT.
t0ct. 3 ,, 1888, 500 P.M1
Observations taken at the same moment of time
at all stations
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A Silly story Denied.

New YORK, Oct 3O.-Hon. Levi P. Nor
ton denies in toto the allegation that he was
engaged during the war in shipping goods to
the Bahamas. whence they were shipped to
Confederate ports by blockade runners.
Among the numerous arrests today for
false registration was Richard w. Dyer, who
has served four terms in Sing Sing, and had
been out of prison only 33 days when he reg
istered.
Charles Stuart Well has accepted the nom.
ination for vice president on the Equal
Rights party ticket
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G. +. Clark, Mexico, Mo-, has purchased
from F. R. Griggsby, of Maryyille. MO-, for
$1,000, the seven-year old trotting stallion
Robert Rysdyk 6O6O, record, 2.244.
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Budd Doble will have the trotting mare
Fugue In his stable next year. and 1t is pre-
dicted that he will drive her to record Of
zig
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Drawn over the shaft.
A New summer Hotel.
Suicide by Shooting.

SKowHEGAN, Oct. 3O.-Coroner Mayo of
Fairfield, held an inquest this afternoon on
the body of Alvin Hunnewell, found dead
/ n Norridgewock yesterday. The jury re-
turned a verdict at suicide by shooting.
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During the past three weeks between ,OOC
and l,5O0 bushels Of potatoes have been pur-
chased and housed in Fort Fairfield. Ship
pers are complaining about not getting cars
enough to ship their potatoes.
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Comment In New York.

NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-Mr. Blaine arrived
from Albany tonight and was besieged BY
reporters. No expression Of his views upon
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-08-04
CURIOUS BOOK FOUND.

Avery curious book has recently turned
up in very curious way, says the Lon.
don World. Nearly everybody knows
that King William III. landed at Car
rickfergus on the 14th of June, 1890, and
readers of Macaulay know that he halted
at white house near Belfast, on his way
to the Boyne. There was sale recently
of the contents of an old house, which
stands in close proximity to a mound
still known as Fort William, and among
q collection of old books then disposed
of was found King James Ills own copy
of The Office of the Holy Week." The
book is fiuely bound, and very elaborate
ly fooled" in the Louis Quatorzs style,
and on both sides OF the cover has the
royal arms of England. It is probable
that when James III. fed, after his disas-
trous campaign and crushing defeat at
the battle of the Boyne, this book, with
other personal effects, was abandoned;
and now, almost two hundred years later,
it has turned up, nearly on the very spot
where the Prince Of Orange made his
first halt on Irish soil.
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MARY HOWITT'S HOME.

The London Times says: The London
home of Mary Hewitt was for many years
a meeting place of all that was best and
brightest in the world of liberal literature
of that day. She was careful and ener-
getic mistress of her household, and her
home duties were little interrupted by lit
erary work. She had no special room of her
own, but wrote in the drawing room,
open to all corners, and would rise from
her desk at every call with smile. 1 re-
member her look as one bright morning,
laying down her pen and stepping out
through the open window, she took the
hammer from the awkward hand of the
gardener and with few swift, adroit
strokes showed him how the creeper
should be trained. Look said Mr.
Hewitt, who stood near; lis there any
thing she cannot do?' She often wrote
late into the night to make up time, with
out seeming to suffer in health, or, what
is more important to the happiness OF
those about literary persons, exhaustion
Of nerves and spirits. Her rare physical
strength and most plant temper pre-
served her in almost undated enjoyment
of life to the verge Of ninety"
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make cigars too. / know not how late
at night they workout they stop not
even while they eat. And they love sol
see them kiss quick-quick; and go to
work again. An she sing beautiful all
day. go to my window when feel bad
myself and listen-an' feel better when I
hear her,"
There is to me something very touch
ing in this chance glimpse, seen through
the smoke and whirl of New York, of this
nameless family of wanderers, now al
ready lost to sight in the vast ocean of
American life. But what now concerns
us is the fact that here the functions of
the sexes seem reversed; the wife was the
bre Learner, the husband kept the house
and tended the children; yet both did
bravely the work that came in their way.
Grant that the instance was exceptional;
of course it was; but nevertheless by ac-
cepting it just as it was, this poor family
was kept above water. And when we
look at society as whole, the exceptions
have to adapt our philosophy to them.
If only one woman in hundred is bet
ter cigar maker or book-keeper or artist
or physician than her husband or her
brother, then we must give her the chance
of training and of career.
La carriere ouUerte auT tdlens was
Napoleon's msxim-the career open to
talent" tools to those who can handle
them" as Carlyle renders it. Nobody
supposes that any lucrative pursuit or
profession will ever draw to it perma
nently as many women as men, because
women will leave it for marriage and pa
rentage, while men do not need to leave
their occupations for this. But in view
of the vast number of instances where
women can and must have some way of
earning their bread, apart from marriage
or in spite OF it-and in view OF the great
number of cases where women have spec
isl talent, il it is only for cigar making,
and men have not; we must recognize
this great army of exceptions. We must
educate and legislate in the knowledge
that however plausible may be the theory
of the big brain and the strong arm, it is
a. theory that utterly breaks down in null
titudes of cases, when the struggle for
life begins. After that is set in, people
must do the best they can, and have q
right to do it, sex or no sex.-T. w. H.
| an LXna1nal'e .Inafa.a10I
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THE ROMAN EMPERORS AT
CADRI

Augustus Caesar built villa at Capri,
to which he occasionally retired when
weary of the cares Of the empire. But
the name of all others which is most in
timately conn ected with Capri is that of
the infamous Tiberius. So deep an i'm
press has the tyrant left upon the island
that after the lapse of eighteen centuries
his name is still familiar to the inhabit-
ants, who even call their children after
him. The word, however, is usually COR
rupted into Timperio. Tiberius built
twelve palaces on various parts of the
island. These he named after the twelve
particular divinities whose favor he
most desired. Suetonius gives us a won
derful account of the splendor of these
edifices, their marble walls and columns,
and the fessts and orgies that they saw.
Mapgoni has given the larger part Of a
volume to the scenes enacted upon the
island during the tyrsnt's long sojourn;
but many OF the chapters are filled with
stories either too disgusting or too terri
BILE to read.
After the death of Tiberius the Senate
ordered his palaces to be destroyed, and
this accounts for the ruined condition of
edifices that might have excelled in
stability and grandeur any of the ancient
palaces which still stand upon the neigh
boring mainland. OF each of the villas,
as they are called, traces still remain;
but the ruins which are most worthy a
visit are those of the great Villa of Jove,
located on the eastern extremity Of the
island, and on height which commands
view of the mainland, of the island it.
self, and of the beautiful bay for miles
about. OF the extensive edifice wherein
Tiberius held his famous orgies, and
where he held the tribunals which nearly
always ended in the condemnation of his
victims, little remains now save num-
Der of vaulted chambers, the use of
which can only be guessed at. Some Of
them have been converted into COW sta
bles, and patient kline find themselves
sheltered in halls where an emperor
once dwelt. On the highest point of the
mountain is little chapel called Santa
Maria del Soccorso, and here an old her.
NIT invites the visitor to inscribe his
name upon the register, while printed
sign In French, English and German re-
quests him to leave small sum for the
benefit of this guardian OF the height.
From the chapel it is but moments
walk to what is called the Salto of Tiber-
JUS. This is point near an ancient bea-
con-light, where. according to tradition,
the tyrant had the victims whom he had
condemned to death thrown down on the
rocks below, whence their mapgled bod
les were dragged into the sea by soldiers
armed with iron picks. 1t was this bea-
con light that gave the augury Of the
death of Tiberius. During his last ill
ness portion of the tower fell, and the
seers foretold the death of the Emperor
of Rome.-Horper's Magazine for June.
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CURIOUS LAMPS OF LONG ACC

CURIOUS LAMPS OF LONG AGO.
The first lamps were probably the skulls
of animals, in which fat of some kind was
burned.
Among the many beautiful works of
art excavated at Herculaneum and Pom
peii none are more exquisite than the
candelabrs.
Egyptian records say that the lamp was
invented in Egypt, but it is more than
probable that lamps originally came from
INDIA or China.
Lanterns were also known to the an
clients. They were of cylindrical form
and built up Of iron bars, the intervals
between being made of translucent horn.
A five-lamp stand from Herculaneum
is shown at the Naples museum. The
platform of this candelabrum rests upon
three lion feet, while the stem is tree.
When lamps began to be made of earth
or metal they were in the form of shell,
and in the earliest lamps we find the
shell reproduced in earthenware, stone,
or metal.
Many "statue lamp-stands" have been
found in Pompeii, and among them one
is preserved in the Neapolitsn museum
which represents an image which is
doubtless meant for Silenus.
In Zstland at the present time travellers
may see the shell. of the "roarin' buckle
the fusus sntiquus, hung up for lamps, to
which, indeed, their shape very well
adapts them.
Lamps have been found of marble,
granite, bronze, gold, silver, ivory, onyx,
and other valuable materials, and the Ia
Dor expended on some portions of their
construction seems almost Incredible.
The most common form of the lamp in
Great Britain during the early Middle
Ages was that of the ordinary stone pot,
either round or square, from the side OF
which hung wick of twisted cord or a
piece OF rope.
Another very beautiful lsmp-stand was
found at Herculaneum. 1t represents
the figure of boy standing by column
a little higher than his head. One arm is
extended, the fingers holding the chain
from which the lamp is suspended. the
other holding the trimmer. The statue
is about two feet high.
The ancient wicks consisted of few
threads, which were inadequate to soak
up the oil, and constant trimming and
adjusting were necessary in order to pre-.
serve the light at all, while the smoke
and smell inseparable from this kind of
light are insuficiently attested by fire.
quent illusions in the writings of the an
cient poets.
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THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.

In the struggle for life, especially in
great cities, thing must be done by the
person who has the talent and the energy
to do it. There is no time to stop and
weigh the brains or measure the biceps
muscles of the contestants; no time fol
theoretic science to come in and say
Behold this person has large head OF
a strong hand; give the work to him;
but the smaller head and the weaker
hand, if they can do the work best must
come to the front. For family to starve
rather than have the quick-witted wife
support it, after the slow-moving hus
bsno has failed, is a sacrifice that even
the Popular Science Monthly would
hardly demand.
This thought was suggested by the ex-
perience of friend of mine in New York
the mother of family, who was twice
driven from her own house by the ap-
pearance of scarlet fever among her
brood; she taking the afflicted child,
each time, and fleeing with a nurse to an
unoceupied "hat," thus in the end saving
the lives of all, while many died around
her. This hRsty lodging was necessarily
in the poorer part of the city, and brought
her in contact with the foreign popula-
ton, among whom she found much to
interest her. She saw within arms length
such poverty as she had never seen be-
fore; saw people actually fight among
themselves for bread. And the following
is one of the stories she tells:
"Do you see that Window" said her
German lsndlady, pointing across the
clothes poles to a higher window in a
tenement house. "a Bohemian woman
live there last year. She gone because
the rent raise. She roll cigars. She do
it faster than the husband, so she get up
at four every morning. But the husband
he good too. He do the house work,
make the breakfast, bring hers to her
while she work an never stop. He take
care Of the children eight they have.
Den-when he git time he sit down and