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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-07-05

tlOnat Scruple IN your heart
MIR darling Estelle; l was sure you
loved me; it is that which has given
me courage" l would taken her in
my arms. and kissed that perfect cheek
where the rose was just beginning to
blossom. but she escaped me.
"You knew that loved you." she
repeated. Mr. Van Huysam. don't
mind confessing that there was indeed
a time when I loved you better than
life. At least, believed so. At that
moment 1 thought You loved me-"
II did. 1 do love You, Estelle." I
protested.
Yes Then would have loved you
forever and ever. Then I could have
died for you. lived for you One day I
awoke. saw that you could not love
me. or nothing on earth could keep you
silent. You did not see how I suffered.
Then my heart broke. Do you know
wha: it is to have broken heart? It
is to have lost the power to love any
one again. have read somewhere
that man never loves the same wom-
an twice"
"But---I love you. Listen. Estelle
Time will"
But she smiled sadly. "Ithank you;
forgive you" she said; 81 would love
you If could. :"
And then the servant announced MS.
Chester-Nary N Prescott, in Hor.
per's Bazaar.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-07-05

to the mouceau riche. Poor Bishop,
how his world came down upon him
when he fell in love with shop-girl.
with neither blood nor bullion. his
mother especially! but Bishop stood to
his guns: it must have taken lot OF
pluck to weather all he did from friend
and foe"
"You call that pluck??' said Ches.
ter. Il call it obstinacy. in his case.
1t was such an easy thing for Bishop
to fall in love that he might have
pleased his mother and given up the
girl"
land what do you think, Mr.. Van
Huysam?" asked Estelle.
Il? think Bishop was fool; that
isl mean-there may be exceptional
shop-girls. who have all the refinement
and cultivation. all the traditions OF
good-breeding. in the world: but
Bishops choice was not one of these
She was simply beautiful and he was
fool to allow himself. at his age. to
be hoodwinked. so to speak. by mere
flesh and blood"
Il quite agree with you" she said.
l could have bitten my tongue out
when called Bishop fool-in fact
the whole convers alton had seemed
malapropos to me. aud I went away
with sense of defeat But how could
l tell her that although / might draw
the line at the shop-girl. marrying .
landladys daughter was quite smother
AFFAIR." Every day. to be sure. made
up my mind that would seek Es-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19
The LouIsIa ma Election.

At this writing the returns from Louisiana
are very meagre, and there is little to show
how the State has gone, except the claims of
several Democratic organs that the Demo-
Gratis have elected Nichols Governor by from
10000 to $4,000. That little is however prob
ably enough to show how the result will
finally be declared, though it is far from sufi-
cient to show what the result actually is, for
Louisiana is one of the States where there is
not necessarily any intimate relation be-
tween these two facts That in the past the
Democrats have resorted to force and fraud
to elect their candidates was practically ad-
mitted at the beginning of this years cen
test by Gov. McEnery, one of the parties to
the bitter contest for the Democratic nomi-
nation for Governor. Speaking after the con-
vention and before any salve had been ap-
piled to his wounds he publicly pledged him.
self to the people of Louisiana, white and
black, that this years election should be a
fair and honest election, that there should
be no bulldozing and that every vote shonld
be counted as cast, clearly implying
that in the past the elections had
not been fair and honest. that bull
doing had prevailed and that every
vote had not been counted as cast. Had
McEnery stood by his promise it might
be safe to assume that there was fair
and free election in Louisiana on Tuesday
and that every vote was counted as cast.
But there is abundant reason for suspicion
that McEnery only stood by his pledge so
long as his wounds smarted, which was not
long, as Nichols applied to them the healing
balm of promise of appointment on the
supreme bench of the State, for in speech
during the campaign he used this language:
"While propose no aggression against the
rights of any man, yet, before this govern
ment shall pass again under the domination
of ignorance and vice, would wrap this
State in revolution from the Arkansas line to
the gulf" What Southern Democrat
speaking in such connection means
by Ignorance and vice" is obvious
enough. He means simply the colored
votels and such of the white voters
as do not throw the Democratic ticket.
The sentiment of this speech is entirely in
consistent with his previous pledge and shows
plainly enough that to avert the danger of
the Republicans carrying the State he was
ready to break it. No presumption in re-
gard TO the character of Tuesdays election
can rest on McEnery's promise The only
judgment that can be formed of it at pres
ent is one founded on the experience of
the past, and that has not been such as to
lead by any means to the belief that it was
fair and honest election. or that the 10000 or
10000 majority was rolled up by ether than
the old method of intimidation and ballot
box stuffing.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The son Of Sir Morell Mackenzie is now
playing with success in farce at the Strand
Theatre.
The Parislans are so dissatisfied with the
weight of the English high hat that their
matters have invented a silk hat weighing
little more than an ounce and half.
The trousseau of the Vicountess Rouge
was so magnificent that it was publicly ex-
hibited in Paris. 1t is said to be the most
beautiful ever made.
The Rev. DR.. James Porter. one of the
oldest and best-khown clergymen of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, died Monday
at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y. DIR. Porter
was educated at Kent's Hill, in Maine. He
was an eminent Abolitionist during the
Anti-Slavery agitation.
The house which has been purchased by
the friends of Gen. Hancock, has been pre-
scented to his widow in an informal manner
by tue chairman of the committee, Mr.. Still
son Hutchins. The house is four-story
brown-stone and pressed brick front, and is
handsomely finished and decorated through
out. 1t is situated on the corner Of Twenty
first and X streets, in one of the pest parts OF
the city. Mrs. Hancock will probably take
immediate possession.
Queen Victoria has become the patron
of an exhibition to be given of pictures and
articles concerning the royal house of Stu
art" The only representatives of the royal
Stuarts now alive are the Princess Mary of
Internationally descended from daughter
of Charles l., and married to Prince Louis
of Wittelsbach, heir presumptive to the
throne OF Bavaria-and her eleven children.
This leads the Daily News to say that sit is
just possible that few foolish persons may
regard this illustrious lady as the rightful
Queen of Great Britain; but there is happily
no reason to apprehend that the tide Of our
reigning dynasty to the throne of these
realms will ever hereafter be disputed"
Cyrus A. Snlloway, lawyer and politician
of Manchester, N. H., and prospective Re-
publican candidate for Congress from the
First district, was on Sunday baptized in
Piscataquog River under Salvation Army
auspices. The army, in charge of Gen.
Moore, C0mmander-in-chief of the forces in
America formed at the barracks on Spring
street, and, with halelujah chorus and cru
SADIE band, took their way TO the river,
where 5000 people witnessed the immersion.
AS the tall form of Sulloway was seen wad-
ing In the water the crowd became clamor-
Gus and greeted the Tall pine of the Merri-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19

GGen. Boulanger has undoubtedly many
qualities that appeal strongly to the imagina-
tion of the French people. lie is snowy, has
a dashing manner and has skillfully
availed himself of the longing of the French
people to revenge themselves for the humil-
iation Germany put upon them in 1870. Yet
1t by no means follows that the enormous
majority which he secured from the electors
of LeNord, the other day, is the product of
his popularity alone. 1t is probably true
that large part of the electors who voted
for him did so simply as the best and
most available means of expressing their
disappropriation and disgust for the goings
on of the French government. 1t cannot
be denied that there were good grounds for
the existence of such feelings. For sever
al years now the legislature OF France
has done little but turn out ministers. Need
full legislation has been almost entirely
neglected, and trading and intrigue have
occupied the minds of the legislators to the
exclusion of all public business. The Repub-
licans have been split into factions, each
faction bent on having its own way and ready
to make any sort of a combination which
promised assistance in that direction. In
short it has seemed as If the great majority
of the members of the legislature were simply
playing for power and pelf, and that the
fact that they were the delegates of the
people to represent and promote the inter-
ests of the latter and not their own had been
entirely put out of mind. OF course
the character of the ministries has steadily
declined in unison with the decline in
the character of the chambers. Each new
ministry has been on the whole weaker than
the one that preceded it, until it has nearly
come about that no man of first class talents
can be prevailed upon to accept a portfolio.
The disgust that these proceedings have
created has been intensified by outrageous
scandals traced into the household of the
executive which have deeply wounded the
pride of the people and put them in frame
of mind to regard any change as one for the
better. Boulanger's prominence has been
made possible by the weakness and incom-
potency of the government The repulsion
of the present ruler quite as much as his own
attraction accounts for his "boom."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19

1t appears that the soldiers exemption act
passed by the Massachusetts legislature
which was intended to make it easier for
veterans to get appointments has not work
ed that way-at least not so many veterans
have received appointments since. it was
passed as before. The law requires that
veterans who have passed examination shall
be preferred, but 1t does not extend such pref
erence to veterans that have not passed exam
ination. If a veteran does not submit to an
examination he is entitled to no preference,
and as the appointing officers naturally pre-
fer man who has shown his competence
by an examination the unexamined veteran
gets very little consideration. He can still
enter the list for competitive examination
however and in that way recover his form
er advantage,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19

mac" with shouts and yells. On sideways
return from the water the confusion ceased
ana the crowd dispersed sideways heart
was first changed, 1t is said, by the demeanar
OF some members of the Army whom he de-
tended in the police court of Manchester.
whittier they had been summoned to answer
charge of disturbance
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19
CURRENT COMMENT.
MATTHEW ARNOLD.

new YORK sum-
The sudden and so far as known to the
public, wholly unexpected death of Mr..
Matthew Arnold will silence the captious
cutlery excited in some quarters by his recent
survey of certain aspects of our civilization
in the Nineteenth Century. Americans as
well as Englishmen will now recognize with
sorrow that they have lost one of the trueSt
poets and highest teachers who have used
our language in the last generation.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19
4 REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION
win be held in
N0ROMBEGA HALL, Bangor,
Thursday, April 26, 1883, at IL O'Clock

For the purpose of selecting two candidates for
Electors Of President and Vice President of the
United States, and four delegates at large, and
four aternates to attend the National Convention,
10 be held at Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, June
19h 1888, and transaettng any other business
that may properly come before it.
rhe basis OF representation win be as follows:
Bach city town and plantation will be entitled to
one delegate, and for each seventy-aye votes cast
for the Republican candidate for Governor in
1884 an additional delegate, and for fraction Of
forty votes in excess of seventyfve votes, an ad-
dltional delegate
The State Committee will be In session in the
reception room of the Han at nine O'Clock on the
morning of the Convention, for the purpose of re-
Giving the credentials of delegates.
All electors of Maine, without regard to past
political differences, who are in sympathy with
the sentiments expressed in the call of the Re-
publican National Committee for the Republican
National Convention, are cordially invited to
unite with the Republicans OF the State in select
ing delegates to this Convention.
Per order Republican State Committee.
JOSEPH ii. MANLEY, Chairman.
WILLIS II. WING, Secretary.
AUGUSTA, MAINE, February IL. 1888.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19

Close on the heels of the ratification of the
fishery treaty by the Dominion Parliament
comes an adverse report from the committee
of the United States Senate TO whom the
treaty was referred. This foreshadows its
rejection by the Senate.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19
THURSDAY, THE 18Th DAY OF APRIL NEXT.

as a day of fasting and prayer. And do rec
ommend to the citizens of the State that the
day be observed throughout its borders in a
manner becoming an enlightened and Christian
people; that on that day in the homes and in
the accustomed places of public worship they do
not forget to acknowledge the power, the I'M
speakable goodness and loving kindness of Him
who is the God alike of pations and individuals /;
that they confess the sins of the past and conse-
crate their future to the Heavenly Father, ''the
giver of every good and perfect gift and whose
mercy endureth forever"
Given at the Council Chamber at Augusta, this
thirtieth day OF March, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eght,
and of the Independence OF the United States
of America the one hundred and twelfth.
SEBASTIAN s. MARBLE.
by THE GOVERNOR.
ORAMANDAL SMITH, Secretary of State.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 10.

We do not read anonymous letters ana eommu
alcations. The name and address of the writer
sre m all cases Indispensable, not necessar ~ TOT
publication hut as a guarantee Of good faith
We cannot undertake TO return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19

and this has caused much of phthisis and
diarrheal diseases. In ten years, however,
with improved sanitary arrangements, these
diseases have become less fatal But
diphtheria, droup and kidney diseases have
increased But that sanitary science has
been able to make an appreciable improve
ment for the better in the last ten years is a
promise of greater success in the future. 1t
is not to be wondered at that New York
with its cosmopolitan population, more
cosmopolitan than the population of any
other large city on earth, should have more
than its share Of the ills of the flesh. People
from every nation. used to all sorts of modes
of life, cannot be crowded into narrow tene-
ments without disastrous unsanitary condi-
tons resulting.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19
STAT. OF MAINE.
A Proclamation by the Gov
ernor.

In accordance with the sacred and beautiful
custom. fitting in ITSELF and endearedt to the people
of New England by an unbroken observance of
more than two centuries. do hereby " 18th the ad-
vice and consent of the Executive Council appoint
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19

The decrease of game in New Brunswick
during recent years has been so rapid that
the Provincial Assembly has felt contained
to take measures similar to those taken in
Maine to preserve the moose few years ago.
A bill has become law prohibiting the killing
of moose and deer in any part Of the Prov
ince for three years to come. The Assembly
passed bill prohibiting the killing of these
animals for five years, but the Legislative
Council amended the bill by reducing the
time to three years. The New Brunswick
legislators were led to do this largely through
the favorable results apparent from the OPP
Grafton of the game laws in Maine. The in
crease and protection of game in New Bruins
wick will undoubtedly in the 81 be benefi-
cial to Maine, since the deer caribou and
moose roam the forests with 10 regard to
boundary lines. But during the three years of
absolute prohibition in New Brunswick it
may be that there will be an unfortunate in
6ux Of New Brunswick poachers should the
New Brunswick laws be more rigidly en-
forced than our own. AS it is there is con-
siderable complaint of foreign .poachers
along the Aroostook border
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19
Nervous Debility.

Sufferers from nervous debility complain Of
physical and nervous weak ness and exhaustion;
there is prostration OF the physical strength,
tired feeling with inclination for exertion, and
the power to work is diminished; the patient
wakes mornings tired and mnrefreshed; there is
an extreme nervous and irritable condition; a
WEAKNESS AND dull, cloudy sensation,
NERVOUSNESS. often accompanied by
disagreeable feelings in he head and eyes; the
thoughts wander easily; there will be gradual
falling OF strength, with weakness and paia in the
pack; bad taste in the mouth mornings; the
Ylslon becomes dim, the memory impaired, and
there is frequent dizziness the DEPB EsstON
nerves become SO weakened OF MIND.
that the least excitement or shock will flush the
FACE, bring tremor trembling, or palpitation Of
the heart. Ihere is often gloom and depression oil
the mlnd For these symptoms Dr. Greenes Ner-
vura Nerve Tonic is IA certain and positiye eure.
Under the use OF this wonderful restorative which
Is purely vegetable and therefore harmless the
dull eyes regain their briliancy, the pale look and
hollow cheeks show renewed health and vitality;
the weak and exhausted feelings give place 10
DIM VISION strength and vgor
IMPAIRED MEMORY. the brain becomes
clear, the nerves strong and steady the gloom and
depression are lifted from the mind and perfect and
permanent health is restored. 1t is an absolute
specific for nervous debility. A WONDERFUL,
Young men with weakened REMEDY.
nerves and exhausted vitality can regain their
strength by its use. II restores lost energy and
inylgorates the weakened vital forces in old and
young. No one need despair of a cure Don't
fail to this remedy, which is the greatest med
ical discovery of the century, and an absolutely
certain cure will result All druggists keep it,
Price, 81 per bottle. Be sure and get DIR.
GREENE's NERyuRA NERVE TONIC; take no
other. for this remedy has no equal If your
druggist does not have it, he will get 1t for you.
Its discoverer, DIR. GREENE, "a Temple
Place. Boston, Mass, the great specialist In
curing nervous and chronic Diseases can be con
suited free, personally OF by letter. USE HIS
GREAT REMEDY AND CONSULT HIM ABOUT YOUR
CASE.
apr19 Th&S2tnrm
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19

The unequal contest which Mr. Conkling
fought so long and so valiantly, is ended,
and one of the most brilliant and command
ing of Americans has passed from mortal
view. Mr.. Conkling's public career covered
nearly quarter of century, and he bore
conspicuous part in some of the most impor-
tant legislation the country has ever seen.
A man Of brilliant intellect. of intense con-
viction, Of firm and uncompromising deyo-
ton to what he believed to be right, of i'm
perious will, Of commanding presence, strong
in his friendships and equally strong in his
enmities. he made deep and lasting impress
sion both upon the Imagination and judg.
ment of men, which did not disappear with
his retirement from public life. To the day
of his death he remained a commanding fig
urs. and even his enemies did not gaze upon
him without admiration for his conspicuous
abilities, his steadfastness of purpose, his
sincerity and his scrupulous honesty. Hy-
pocrisy and deceit were foreign to him. The
faults he had were the offspring of self
reliant, proud. imperlous nature, which
sometimes betrayed him into an overesti-
mate of his own convictions and an under
estimate of the convictions of others.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19

The President of the New York Board Of
Health has issued report which shows the
astonishing fact that London, with its four
million and more of inhabitants, is a
healthier city than New York, with its mil
lion and half The annual death rate of
New York is about twenty-six in a thousand,
while the rate in London is only twenty in
thousand. In 1856 the number of deaths in
New York was 1881, in London S2545. But
had New York the same population as Lon
don, preserving at the same time its own
death rate, the number of its death would
have been in 1886 about los, goo, or more than
twenty-five thousand in excess Of those of
London. The causes Of this unfavorabe
showing for New York are as interesting as
the fact itself. There is much more over
erowding in New York than in London,
there being 1861 persons to dwelling in
New York, as compared with 7S in London;
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19
STATE OF MAINE.
A Proclamation by the Cow
0rnOr


The Sixty-third Legislature of Maine PASSED
the following act, approved March TO- 1887:
THAT the Governor shall annually set apart a
day In the spring as Arbor Day, and shall issue
proclamation recommending that ii shall be OBJ
served by the people Of this State in the planting
OF trees, shrubs and vines, in the adornmcnt Of
public ana private grounds, places and ways, and
IN such other efforts and undertakings as shall be
In harmony with the general character of a day
so established"
In obedience to the foregoing, believing in its
wisdom, and that 1t has been fully approved by
the public sentiment, I, Sebastian s. Marble,
Governor of Maine, do hereby designate
Tuesday, the list day Of May, A. ID. 1888,
to be observed as Arbor Day.
Experience has demonstrated that good results
follow tree planting wherever practiced, and do
earnestly invite the people Of Maine to prepare,
and devote that day to the purposes in said act
Given at the Council Chamber at Augusta
this ninth day OF April, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
lightweight. and Of the Independence of the
United States of American, the one hundred
and twelfth SEBASTIAN S. MARBLE.
BY the Governor,
oRAMANDAL SMITH, Secretary of State.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-19
DR.. Major D. MacRae.

Respectfully announces TO the public that Can
Ger can now be positively cured. by removing the
cause from the blood, by constitutional and local
treatment, without cutting. Also Cancer of the
Uterus, FistuIn, Piles. scrOfuIa, Eczemn,
ErysipeIns, and all other Malignant UlcerstiOns
cured by him. Send for indisputabe references,
has had over 20 years experience In the treat
ment Of the above mention Diseases $40 Con-
gress sf., Portland, We. apr5dly