davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-18
NEW PuBLICATIoN MS.

Power and Liberty. By Count Leo Tolstoi.
Translated from the French by Huntington
Smith. Tolstoi's analysis of Power and Lib
erty possess a certain political significance
in that 1t has bearing upon the present con-
dition Of the Russian people. 1t is further
development of the idea of the object of his
tory as expressed in his essay upon "Napo-
lean and the Russian Campaign" The lives
of the people can no longer be summed up
in the lives of their rulers. Heroes forced
the people to obey them by declaring them
selves to be directed by Divine power
which had chosen them for a predestined
end. Count Tolstoi asserts that history has
occupied itself too much with innumerable
facts and details often trivial, and too little
with principles, and true knowledge Of the
real source OF the forces which are produc-
tive of power; and that historical events are
the results If the free will of man. History
to-day is going through with the struggle be-
tween the old and the new theory, "and,"
says Tosltoi, "the struggle exctes the pas
sions of both parties and obscures the truth"
He treats the problem Of free will, which is
at the foot Of his argument, in sincere and
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-18
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

An English writer declares that the Gus
tom of pairing off guests at dinner arose in
the middle ages, when there was only sin
gle plate and drinking cup for each couple,
and that while the man cut up the meat the
woman put the pieces in his mouth and they
both drank from the same cup.
Refuting the assertion that meat diet
causes cancer, Surgeon-Major Hendley re-
ports from India that out of 102 operations
for cancer performed at Jeypore since 1880,
forty-one were on the persons of meat eaters
and sixty-one on those of strict vegetarians,
who had not known the taste of meat from
their births
1t is said that charming French duchess
recently going to some festivity for benevo-
lent purpose, was late and put ON her gloves
while driving. She did not notice until she
stood in the drawing-room that to a black
and white SILK costume she had added one
black glove and one white one. She kept
them on, and at the next fashionable assem-
bly, in the place all the ladies wore gloves of
different colors.
During the recent visit of Georgia COM
mittee to Mr.. Thurman the conversation nat
urally turned upon the greatest of Southern
statesmen, John G. Calhoun Of South Caro-
lima Mr.. Thurman was asked if he had
known Mr.. Calhoun in public life. The re-
ply was interesting. "Yes," said Mr.. Thur
man. 81 knew Mr.. Calhoun in the closing
years of his political life, which were the
opening years of my own. shall never for
get my first meeting with him. was quite
young when first entered Congress, and my
uncle, then a United States Senator from
Virginia, took me the first thing to see the
great South Carolina statesman. Mr. Cal
houn received us kindly, and from the first
devoted his attention to me-a young man
to certain extent ignoring his colleague, my
uncle. i believe, Mr.. Thurman" said he,
that this is your first term in Congress, and
from your youthful appearance should say
you had not been long out of college, Mr..
Thurman admitted both propositions.
"Well, sir. while you were in college hope
you studied the history of Greek republics!
Did ,youe" Mr.. Thurman gave some enum-
erations of his studies, in which general his
tory was included. "But, sir, as a public
man looking forward to public life, you
should have studied the history of the Greek
republics" And them" said Judge Thur
man, for full hour he turned his attention
to me, and I'll guarantee there never fell
from mortal lips such lecture as the vener-
able and distinguished statesman delivered
10 me, an audience of one, upon the subject
OF the Greek republics 1t was a profound
volume upon government" Judge Thur
man further said that no living man was
ever more luminous in argument and more
Impressive in his sincerity than Mr.. Cal
houn. This republic never produced a
greater intellect
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-18
MIsCELLANE
HOT BREAD MADE WHOLESOME.

The Royal Baking Powder possesses peculiar merit
that possessed by any other eavenng agent Bread
biscuit cake, mufns rolls made with it may be eaten
when hot without inconvenience by persons of the most
delicate digestive organs With most persons it is
say that bread raised with yeast should lose its freshness
become stale before it be with safety Dis
tessng results also follow from eating biscuit cake pastry
etc. raised by the cheap inferior baking powders that
tain lime, alum phosphates, other adulterants The
hot roll and muffin and the delicious hot grddle cakes
raised by Royal Baking Powder, wholesome and
digestible SOUP meat any other food
Another greatly superior quality possessed by the
Royal Baking Powder is that by which the preservation
of important elements of the -four effected in raising the
bread by the mechanical operation of the gas without fer
menation Yeast and all baking powders that produce
the leavening by fermentation destroy portion those
nuve elements of the -four which the most healthfu
and the greatest aids to perfect assimilation of the food
The Royal Baking Powder while perfectly leavening re-
tans without change impairment all those elements
which intended by nature, when combined in our
bread, to make it literally the staff of fe
No leavening agent baking powder except the Royal
Baking Powder, possesses these great qualifications
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-18

II have ii upon good authority that four man
whose names will not mention but who are good
ior an they call for, have entered into an agree.
ment 70 carry this State for Cleveland and Thur
man MAJ -, New Hampshire is always close State.
a anu tasse gentlemen propose TO see TO it that
Snanaier, Cnrrier and the rest of the Doodle gang
oo nSL Lnls year defraud the honest plain people
A. w. b. In the Argus ~ ''"u' i'io'
mere IS little doubt that one of these four
men is the Hon. Frank Jones. of Portsmouth
NO doubt the thought that Doodle may have
figured in New Hampshire politics is very
distressing to Mr.. Jones, for it is well known
that he always relies or appeals to the
intellect and to the moral sense. If, there
fore, Mr.. Jones has taken hold of the New
Hampshire campaign we may be certain of
witnessing before November a great moral
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-18

The Argus has declared that putting raw
materials on the free list will prevent strikes.
The discoverer Of this remedy should peruse
the news columns Of his sheet. There he
VIII ma plenty of dispatches concerning
strikes In England where raw materials have
peen Tree for years. Perhaps though he
thinks dispatches from London, like edito-
rails In London papers, go by contraries
That when a cablegram announces a strike
in England the real fact is that everything is
peaceful and serene.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-18
spectacle. opening with prayer and closing
with the doxology.


The New Age in its last issue declares In
one column that the protective system Is
purely in the interest of capital and in an
other quotes approvingly the assertion OF the
New York World that there were more
bankruptcies. more strikes and shut-downs,
longer periods of business depression and
industrial stagnation and more financial pan
les, during the last u years OF Republican
rule. under the highest tariff In the world,
than were ever known in this country be-
FORE Now if the protective system produces
industrial stagnation, business depression
and bankruptcies then certainly 1t cannot be
in the interest of capital, so if the New Age
believes the Worlds statement it cannot pos
sibly. without stultifying itself, believe its
own. The free trade brethren-no, tariff re-
form brethren should get together and agree
upon something. They seem at present to
be putting one another in holes,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-18

Upon the strength of this, which is far
better basis than the Gazette had, we might
proclaim our esteemed Lewiston contempt
rary A Free-trade Liar in the blacklist Of
letters. But we are inclined to be charitable.
The Gazette is young and innocent No
doubt somebody told it the story which it
printed and it published it In good faith. OF
course the Gazette will make due correction
and handsomely apologize to the PRESS for
calling it Protectionist Liar.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-18

According to the Boston Post, good Dem
ocratic paper, three Democratic Senators
will refuse to vote for the fishery treaty.
The Argus, when 1t declared. as it did yes
terday, that opposition to this treaty was
contemplate and based on purely partisan
motives, had not heard of this. An apology
to the three Democrats win now be in order.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-18
HON. THOMAS h. REED

The St. John Globe declares that the
Canadian fisherman want. and must have
in some way, the markets of the United
States for his fish," The best way to get
them is to help elect Grover Cleveland
President and a Democratic Congress.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-18


a Democratic exchange speaks Of the men who
are coming out for Harrison and Protection
as "a stage army of deserters." But when a
man like Archibald Linn, Of Hartland, walks
across the stage, something shakes.-[Portland
Press.
We should SO remark, and we guess the
shaking will be in the neighborhood of the
Press office. We recommend to the editor Of
that paper careful perusal Of Mr.. Linn's
views on the tariff question as printed In this
evenings Commercial Bangor Commercial.
We have read carefully Mr.. Linn's views
as expressed In the column; and do not find
word of denial of the statement made by
the PRESS weeks ago that Mr.. Linn would
vote for Harrison and Morton. Mr. Linn
submits to the Commercial some general
views on the wool tariff, but does not deny
that he has walked across the STAGE" and
shall vote the Republican ticket. And since
this appeared in the Commercial, Mr.. Linn
hasagain declared to reporter Of the Bangor
Wing that he should vote for Harrison and
Morton. As for shaking in the PRESS office
we should be glad to shake the hand of
Archibald Linn, the best shawl maker in
Maine, and man who cannot be fooled by
the free traders.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-18

President Perry of Williams College, says
protection is immoral, it is wicked. Presi-
dent Hyde appears to agree with Pre- sident
Perry as to Al per cent protection, but when
1t comes to AZ per cent. prote ction, why that
is different thing
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-18

A few days ago the PRESS offered to SUBJ
NIT its controversy with Census, cor
respondent of the Lewiston Gazette, to the
editor Of that paper. Inasmuch as that
editor had day or two before shown his
hostility to the PRESS by denouncing it as a
protectionist liar and his friendliness to-
wards Census by complimenting his illusions
the PRESS proposition appeared to be one
greatly to the advantage of Census. Census
has considered the matter several days,
meanwhile consulting the editor perhaps,
and here is the conclusion he arrives at ex-
pressed in his own language:
The Portland PRESS persists in saying that
from the values in 1870 must be deducted 1914
per cent. for the difference between gold and
greenbacks. The issue thus raised the PRESS
proposes to submit to the editor Of the Gazette.
The only objection to such an arbitration is. that
the editor is too busy in exposing Republican
falsehoods as TO reported assertions from the
Democratic party to devote his time to such SILL
ness.
Comm ant unau this IL an tiralv nj N aaassarv
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-18
TTIE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, AUG. 10.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu
ncations, The name and address Of the writer
are IN all cases indispensable, not necessarily for
publication but as 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, 1888-08-18
Comment upon this is entirely unnecessary,


General" Samuel F. Cary, of Ohio, told
the Democrats of Waterville this on Thurs
day: 81 doubt If there are five farmers in
the county who live as they ought to. Very
few of them get rich. There are some who
get rich on two niekels day. They spend
one and put the other in their pocket"
General Cary don't know what he is talking
about any better than some others of the
Democratic orators who are preaching free
trade in Maine this year. There are no more
happy or prosperous people on the face Of
the earth than the farmers Of Kennebec
county. Not many of them live in brown
stone fronts or drink high wines, but they
have comfortable homes. money in the bank,
chance to educate theiI children almost ut
their own doors, and the delights of life in
one Of the finest valleys in North America.
They know their own advantages, too. and
that is why so few Of them turned out to
hear the hoary free trader from Ohio talk.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-25
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.



Farms of all sizes from Ten to two hun
dred and fifteen acres each at prices
ranging from Thirty to Ninety dollars
per Acre.
One nice property well improved and
well located containing twenty four
Acres, with Blacksmith and Wheclwright
shops, in an excellent neighborhood
three miles from Newark.
Also very desirable property contain
ing twelve Acres of No. ! land, large
brick dwelling and good outbuidings,
with Blacksmith and Wheclwrieht and
Carriage Shops, in an excellent location
19miles from Newark will be sold, with
or without the shops, or the shops will
be sold separately.
Also good business stand on the
Main street in Newark comprising two
dwellings, stable and carriage house. Ice
House and all necessary ouibuildings, q
well established Restaurant, Confection-
airy and Ice Cream saloon, and a first
class stand fora Bakery.
Also two comfortable dwellings with
necessary outbuildings on the Main street
in the West End of Newark, all of which
will be sold at fair prices and on reason
able terms.
| will take pleasure in answering
any questions respecting any of these
properties, or showing them to persons
desiring To purchase.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-25

Mr., W. +. Daley, Advertising Agent Of
the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad, writes:
"Inllammatory rheumatism swelled my
legs and arms to twice their natural size.
| suffered oscrueinting pain. Your Won
dcitul ). s. S, made a complete cure.
Major Sidney Herbert, editor of the
,Dttte1R Cuititat0i' and lDlne Farmer,
Atlanta, Ca, writes: :" have fully tested
the virtues of Swift's Specific, both as a
rheumatism cure and tonic. it has done
even more than its proprietors claim for it.
Mr. Michael Long, Jr., with the Stro-
bridge Lithographic Co., Cincinnati, Ohio,
writes " / suffered for two years with a
terrible itching and painful sores on my
neck, arms, hands and fingers. No phy-
stefan could help inc. y. S. S. relieved
me perfectly and I feel like new man.
Mrs. Amanda lngle, Of Gastonia, N. c.,
writes; My baby, when four mouths
old, developed scrofula. lie had two Sc
we're rsngs and sores OH the neck. sent
for our family physician, who pronounced
it scrofula, and prescribed S. S. S. for IT,
gave the baby S. s. S and it son got
the disease under control. The sores are
healed, and the baby ia well and healthy.
l know $. S S. saved its life, and told
our doctor so. He is regular physician,
and prescribed S. S S. for the baby as soon
as he saw it had scrofula.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Gu
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-25

Awaits that countless army OF martyrs,
whose ranks are constantly recruited
from the victims of nervousness and nor
vous diseases. The price of the boon is
systematic course of llostctters Stom-
ach Bitters, the finest and most genial of
tonic neryines, pursued with reasonable
persistence. Easier, pleasanter and safer
this than to swash the victualling depart
ment with pseudo-tonics, alcoholic or the
reverse, beef extracts, nerve foods narco-
tics; sedatiyes and poisons in disguise
'Tired Natures sweet restorer, balmly
sleep" is the providential recuperant of
weak nerves, and this glorious franchise
being usually the consequences of sound
digestion and increased vigor, the great
stomachic which insurcs both is produc-
tive also of repose at the required time.
Not unreireshed awakens the individual
who uses it, but vigorous, clear headed
and tranquil. Use the Bittcrs also in
fever and ague, rheumatism, kidney
troubles, constipation and bilousness.
.'arn'"|",',,pd,.is.'.rs
The Overflow in Venice.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-25
The Overflow in Venice.

An American traveller while in
Venice met a man dressedin the I'M
mistakable ''toggery" Of the Missis-
sippi river bottoms.
"Ah, said the traveller approach
ing the southerner. 81 am not ac-
quainted with you but / know you
are from my own country
81 am from Mississippi"
Il know it, said the traveller, ex-
tending his hand. "What do you
think of Venice ?n
We'll, | don't reckon | oughter
express my opinion, fur | didn't git
here till airter the overflow, an
haint had a chance to see the town,
but as the water pears to be on Il
stand now ! reckon it'll begin to 90
down putty soon"
My gracious. man, this is not an
overflow.
you don't understand. This is
Venice and the water is always here. .
"Wall that mount be, but call it
an overflow all the same. reckon
I'd better 60.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-25
NEWSPAPER TRIALS.

One of the great trials Of the news
paper profession is that its members
are compelled to see more of the
sham of the world than any other
profession. Through every news
paper office, day after day, go all the
weaknesses of the world-all the
vanities that want to be pulled, all
the revenges that want to be reaped,
and all mistakes that want to be cor
rected, all the dull speakers that
want to be thought eloquent, all the
meanness that want TO get its wares
noticed gratis in the editorial column
in order to save the tax of the adj
vertising column; all the men who
want to be set right who We're never
right all the crack Drained philo-o-
pliers with stories us long as their
hair and as gloomy as their finger
nails in mourning because bereft Of
soap-all the bores who come to
stay five minutes but talk five hours.
Through the editorial and reporter
ial rooms all the follies and shams
of the world are seen, day after day,
and the temptation is to believe
neither in God, man nor woman. 1t
is no surprise to me that in this pro-
fession there are some skeptical men
l only wonder that newspaper men
believe anything.--Rev. r. Dewitt
Talmage
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-25

"Give me a tenderloin well done,
some Lonnaise potatoes and some
celery
eyes, sir"
And waiter, bring me some iced
tea"
"rhe worst thing you could
drink" remarked a doctor who was
taking lunch with reporter.
GLOW is this ?"
"First the cold water is not good
for your stomach, and then as a
preventative from any epidemic it is
well to boil all fluids for drinking
purposes. Tea taken hot is more
wholesome than iced tea. To prove
this just look at the Chinese. Their
population is enormous but it could
never have increased to its numbers
il. epidemics had ravaged that en-
pire as they have those of the West.
The Chinese are u healthy people in
spite of their indiscribably filthy
surroundings. ] attribute this to the
use of tea as a beverage. This is the
only redeeming feature of their life.
They do not drink it iced, but hot
and to make it they have to boil the
water. In the presence of an cpidem-
ic of cholera, typhoid-fever or dys-
EMERY the wisest precaution to take
is to boil fluids used for drinking
purposes.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-25

See here sir, said a man to Dakota
real estate agent, you know that lot
YOU sold me for $50 last fall ~
Yes
well, find you've. Just sold the
same lot to an eastern speeulator-
just saw the records-wananty deed,
consideration $500. What do you
mean hy selling my iot?'
Isn't your lot down under twenty
feet of snow2
"WelI, YES, from twenty to twenty
five
Well, this lot I've sold to the New
England man is on top. When the
snow thaws in June you just 20 a.
head and take possession Of your lot
and tell the Boston man that his lot
has melted awly ran into the Cult
Of Mcxico. Oh, there's more than one
wiYto skin IN Eastern capitalist be-
side. holding over him in ,lraw-pokei
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-25

4 contemporary, apolog1lng for
base bah umpircs who favor the
home club in close decisions, says
that "umpires, ofcourse, are mortal. y
If this impression gets abroad they
had better lookout for themselves
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-25
Timetable, in effect Nov. 20, 1857
GOING NORTH.
Daily (cxcept sunday

French Creek Branch Trains:
Leave Springfield II 10 m and 6 20 p m on
week days. and . 10 a NJ g.. Sundays.
Arrive ST. Peters Il ~ m and q 80 p IN on
week days, and 70 m on Sundays
On saturday only Will leave Dupont station at
OOand ? p m, NeWbridge at 20 and 10 y m
for Wilmington and an intermediate points.
ON sunday leave Reading at 300 p. IN. for VIII
lnlngtOn.
For connections at Wilmington, b. & o. JUNG
ton, Chadds Ford junction, Lenupe, COatesvllle
WayneshuTg Juution, BlrdsborO, and Reading
see me-tahes Il all stations
r. Il, IInnARp, Gen1. Pass. Agent
A. q. MCFARLAND, Supt
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-25

Arrive Newark Centre StatlOn) from Phila. q
Wilmington s0l Il III and III and Gas pm week
days.
Peninsula express leaves Newark "a m, ar
rlyes at Baltimore lll0am
Baltimore passenger leave Phla. daily 1910
m; chester II IL p m; Wilmington 1l.3s 4 III. ar.
irving Newark 1900 night, Baltimore 1877 n m,
Philadelphia and Baltimore express, 2.02 p. IN;
Wilmington, 2Ai r. m; Newark, 3.O3 p. M, and
BMlllnOrc, 4.ln z. M, on Meel DAVIS.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-25
Surplus over S25O,O0O
PERFECTLY SAFE AND RELIABLE.
LOSSES PAID PROMPTLY.

Six per cent. allowed on all bal
ances standing to credit of members
when said balance is Five Dollars
or more, thereby lesscning the cost
of insurance to members. dcc30
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-25

ks.a. q = tsgk, at tha Newsia,er hdV,a
y $780, asas.sssass Using Agency " M.EslR
" W. AVER q SON. our authorized agents
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-25

All work promptly exc
cuted, and no inferior
workmanship. Every
workman an expert in his
rtlcular branch.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-25
ST. N COLAS

ONCE Its first issue, In 1873 this magazine
NhNs maintained, with undisputed recognition.
OF being the most excellent juvenile periodical
ever printed. The best known names in litera-
ture were on Its list OF contributors from the
r,-Bryant. Longfellow Thomas Hughes.
George Macdonald, Bret IIartc, Bayarl TAYLOR,
Francis llOdgsOn Burnett, James r. Fields, John
q, Whittier; indeed the list Is so long that ID
would be easier to tell the few authors OF note
who have not contributed to tine worlds child
magazine