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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-12-19
MERCHANTS NATIONAL RANK.

fffH 4 annual meeting of the Stockholders of the
a Merchants National Bank of Portland for
election OF directors for the ensuing year. and the
y transaction OF any other business that may
legally be presented. will be held at the bank on
TUESDAY, January 8, $50, at IL o'clock a. M
decSdld CHAS. PAYSON. Cashier.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-12-19

The Democrats are seeking apparently to
make it appear that they are willing to let
Dakota in while they are trying to keep her
out. Their skill in lodging is great, but it
will hardly suffice for this emergency.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-12-19

Gen. Ayers statement that he iourneyed
across the continent to talk with Mr.. Blaine
about Atchson stock sounds trife fishy.
But then Ohio statesmen have been known
to journey from the capital to the Buckeye
State 10 mend fences.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-12-19
ANNUAL MEETINGS.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.

FE,HE Annnal meeting of the Stockholders of
ms Bank VIII be held at its Banking Rooms
on I tuesday,, the 9Th day of January, 1883. at
loo'cloek a. m. for the purpose of eectng ven
directors for the ensuing year md for the trans
action Of any other business that may legally
come before them.
JAMES E. WENGREN, Cashier.
Portland. Dec. g 1898 dec1Odt
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-12-19
Cumberland National Rank

HyHE annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Cumberland National Bank of Portland will
be held at their banking room, on TUESDAY, the
eighth day of January, 1889, at 10 O'Clock a. M,
for the choice of directors for the ensuing year.
and the transaction of any other business that
may legally come before them.
w. Ii. S0ULE, Cashier.
Portland, Dec 8. 1888. dec8dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-12-19

Riddleberger's attack on Senator ingalls,
in the Senate Monday appears to have been
kept within parliamentary limits, which is
about equivalent to saying that Mr.. Riddle
berger's supply of cold tea was smaller than
ueuol
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-12-19
National Traders Rank.

g1HE shareholders of the National Traders
Bank, of Portland, are hereby notified that
room on TUESDAY, the eighth day of January
next, at ii o'clock a. m, to choose five Directors
70 tn ensuing year and to act on any other bust
ness that may legally come before them.
dec7dtd EDWARD GOULD Cashier
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-10
Record Of ca.ualtlss.

Fire was discovered In the lumber yard
OF the Chippewa Lumber Company at
Chippewa Lake. 10 miles from Big Rapids,
Mich. Hundreds OF men from the village
and camps turned out and directed their
efforts to the saving OF the two mills. A
strong wind prevailed and ia two hours
the most extensive private iumher yard in
the state was a sea OF fire. BY hard work
the mills were saved, but from 10, 900, 900
to Is. 600, 600 feet OF lumber were destroy.
ed. The loss Is estimated at not less than
$120, 900, and the insurance $1o0.O00
A terrible accident occurred at RushyI-
vania, Ohio. A school exhibition was in
progress in q hall situated in the second
story Of brick building. The hall seats
about four hundred people, end was crowd
ed. Suddenly the floor gave way with a
frightful crash. Ii sank In the center, fun.
mel shape. and the entire audience went
down in u surging mass a distance OF TWEEN
ty feet. Two persons were killed. ten or
twelve dangerously hurt. and probably If
ty Others are more or less seriously iniur.
ed. A number OF ladies and children were
taken out. some ofthem unhurt. with their
clothing torn completely OF.
Another Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
freight train WAS badly wrecked at u late
hour when entering the Louisville, New
Albany Il Chicago yards at Chicago, Just
alter the wreck occurred policeman
found the conductor OF the train, James
A. Edwards. lying near ths tracks on
Forty-fifth street, badly bruised AID nea r.
ly insensibIe. When he revived he sail
three men had boarded his caboose at the
Thirty seventh street crossing and attack
ed him. He Was beaten over the head with
some instrument and his papers and valu-
ables taken. His physicians think he can
not live. The police have arrested a Chica-
go e. Atlantic engineer named Daniel Han.
non.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-10
The Rag carpet.

TO vou can not efford Axminste
carnets and Persian rugs, have rag
GARNET. The only thing that Kills u
rag carpet for popularity is Its cheap
ness. If it cost So yard, it would De
on the floor of every bond holder IN
the land. There is something about a
rag carpet that suggests home. III IS
not 40 cold and formal to the eye as
tba handsomely lowered Brussels that
Won see in a parlor. AS soon as you
put your foot on rag carpet, you Zee,
On good terms with the household; and
Won naturally expect to hear kettle
sing. and see some friendly cat arcn
her back and rub socially against your
shins.
And the man that owns a rag car
net made of articles collected ABOUT
the house can sit right down with the
Garnet and talk to it. 1t is full OF the
nIeasantest "reminiscences. He can see
in that carpet pieces of all the cioth-
ing he has worn during the past ten OF
twenty years. All his cast on wearing
apparel is in that carpet, except what
is in the crazy quilt. Oyercoats, sus-
penders, felt hats, neckties, gloves, and
oyershoes glow before him in red,
white, and blue sea that would set
statue peddler crazy with delight.
The past comes back TO him through
the medium OF his metamorphosed
clothing. Every strip has some as
ISOLATION connected with 1t. There is
the soft hat that his hair used to grow
through the top of when he was boy.
There is the overeoat that never had
whole lining in the sleeve; there are
the tops of the slippers his best girl
worked him gold daisies on red
ground; and there are his wedding
suspenders. He can never forget
those suspenders; they saw much more
active service than General Grant.
How many times had he made a but
ton hole in them with his knifel And
when one got too weak to be worn
longer, he kept himself together with
a solitaire, and converted the other in
to razor strop. And when they had
both served two or three terms as razor
strops, they were put into the rag car
pet, where they loom up like two
white doves against the background
Of black velvet, and after all the other
pieces in the carpet have lost their
, color and character, the suspenders
will be as tough as railroad sponge
Exchange.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-10
PlTa OF THE NEWS.
News iron, Washington.

AI,,al No T.,..-7 ~ A, - - = i !,
,.a,.'i suues uas oeen Appoihtec
SALARY al al 40D He IL eredi,ed ~ Min,
nesotea and was annointad ,,ader tha "a u
service ruIes.
- ,,u.......l.s.s 4. !.
=, osi,',irs,ouet SssesAsiaser ms
$3.50 sns SUI lefs ~, =, ~ 'onhships "a Ihs
. $3.50 =, .scsi's "a ms ee',on va paseo
epon Iet,4r.s ,paue 70 ens o''lee htc, ,enu
~ sno~ ena' ''ie surveys were irauuuieh'
:" '"otao'e''
Surgeon General Hamilton has officially
published the iu,l text OF the reports or
ME Ia TIE Marine hospital burea u on which
was baHed his statement that "a late in
spection at Mieanopy. Plant City and
bartwo, fiA., has proved the recent exist
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-10
The Difference.

Nebraska State Journal.
A newspaper man who grinds out
several columns of drivelings ever
day in the year and many yesrs L
the decade was conversing fuentIv
and intelligently with minister Il
the gospel the other day. The pood
man breaches to cultivated audienes
in q small Nebraska town every Sun
day and the newspaper man accused
him OF having soft snap.
zone of your sermons, remarked
the man who moulds public opiniou.
wouldn't make over two columns il
a newspaper. It is cold, disagreea,I
BILE day when the average writer
doesn't do that much and YOU have !
week in which to achieyeit." True Z
observed the pastor, smiling throash
his tears, "but you have all the word
to draw from. You have all saasoas
and all countries for your own, +
must write and preach on the sans
theme week alter week and year after
year. until this poor, Iispering. staat
mering tongue lies silent in the uaye.
You try to write a two eolumu er..
ticle on any one subject every sesz
for several years, or select text spz
write q sermon for Inc. Then yva
will think that q turtle has maeh
greater snap than a clergyman
The good man was probably coFrea
An effort on the part of thenessp&per
man to write sermon proved TO =
such a dismal failure that the autkos
of it has been gloomy ard moIesf
ever since,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-10
FAM, Finding

One of the easiest things in the wa,,s
10 do is to find fault, and IN no Ma
are there as many opportunities for =
dulging in this kind of work as = -.
home. There are so many little tbis..
occurring among its inmates vbsss
there is FANNY of any size. sneh3
as the misplaeing of parma,,
leavinga door aiar, utteringa Thought
less word, in fact, a great many trivia,
things that to people inclined to ia
fault will give plenty of cause. Itiss
disagreeable thing to lind. fault anv
way, to most people, yet there are som.
who seem to like to do it simply r..
the sake of finding fault. These neo
Die do not mean to be chronic fa,,s
finders, and it never occurs 70 thss,
that they are. They would not for h. =.
world be thought disagreeable. ana h,,s
for this one trait. would be generals
very pleasant companions. They Al
not acquire this habit at once; anv -
their friends will tell you that tba,s
was time when they were not so: mi
they began by noticing every littls
failing or supposed failing amops
their acquaintance, and the hahn
grew with them until it Appeared :
part of their nature to notice and eon
denim every little fault supposed :,
real. They are very far from beins
perfect themselves; in fact they thias
so much about other peoples irnnsr.
feetions that they have very little tins
TO attend to their own. They womb
be grieved and hurt should their
friends retaliate by noticing eyery I'd
tie eceentricity OF theirs, and. pefham
had their friends the courage to do 81
it might open their eyes to the nm
pleasantness of fault-fnding. Itcer.
tainiy would be disagreeable duty Il
duty it might be called, and few peonIs
would care to do it, unless of the saa,a
stamp as the fault finders, in whics
case it would do very little good.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-10
Characteristic of Old Age.
Globe Democrat.

Globe Democrat.
The characteristic changes which go
along with old age, and to which the
final stoppage OF the machinery of life
is due, are seen to be mostly degen,
erations of structures in which the
normal active tissues are replaced by
materials OF inferior quality. Fat
and lime salts are very poor substi-
tutes for the healthy, .contractile
muscle, or the transparent structures
OF the eye. 1t has been thought by
some that if we could prevent the il.
PRODUCTION of earthly salts into the
body by way OF food and drink. the
right arteries and degenerations gen.
orally of age might be prevented
The plan proposed for thus forestall.
ing age is as follows: DrinK nothing
but diluted water, or drink contain.
ing phosphoric acid and the Juice oil
lemons, OF which distilled water is the
basis. Eat no vegetable containing
much of the earthly salts. This would
exclude spinach, cabbage, &C., from
the diet, No tea nor coffee. Take
plenty of milk. Amuch more rational
diet wonld be one containing but little
albuminous food, plenty OF milk, no
eggs nor lean meat, but as much fata
as can be taken without discomfort.
1t has been observed that calcareous
degeneration is almost always pre-.
coded by chronic changes in the kid
neys, and these are certainly hasten.
ed by diet of lean meat, eggs and
the like.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-10
london in a Blizzard.

What would happsn il Lender
were suddenly caught in such biz
zard as that which overwhelmed ses
York; In that city, prepared - i
is for heavy falls of SHOWS, 500eorpss
have accumulated nnbuired, owisg q
the impossilibity OF reaching tsscsIas
teries. But in London the dsS3
might be left without thought. TIE
feeling of the living would atsora
every energy The whole city, i tbs
snow did not melt, might become or
gigantic mausoleum OF the millions q
its inhabitants. When We read #
the digging out of corpses stsndiw
frozen in the street where the snoK
overwhelmed them We are REMINDS
OF the destruction of Pompsii azd
Herculaneum, where the people xas
entombed beneath ashes. Snow I
as deadly and more merciiul- her
seldom we reflect that a STOW storH
may be as deadly as a volcano and &
single blizzard more fatal than .
eruption of Vesuvius. Two dsgz
heavy snow with frost follows
would disorganize civilization 81
decimate the population.-PalI Ny
Gazette.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-10


ration OF war within ninety days--even WITH
the present secretary of state In ONCE ne
Democratic party in the South have learned
the art not only Of making elections unAni-
NOUS bur OF making them more than unani-
nous 1t had learned the art OF returning
larger Democratic majority than the regis
| tered vote He read letters and Statements
frori Republican sources detailing acts OF
outage and cheating at the recent Louis
ian election, and declared bis belief thai tali
counts would have shown Narmoth eiecseu
by a msjority of SO 900 or 81, 000.
He closed with an eloquent peroration on
| liberty and constitutional government
Mr. VOORHEES, PREDIcAldKsE
Mr. VOORHEES, is left by the speech in Pc
Guitar position Mr.. ingalls,, inyited by
Voorhees, attack upon himself TO assume thai
Voorhees, was one OF the noted Union lead
ers of the war, looked into his military rec
ord aud, as above noted, unearthed the famous
speech of Voorhees,. reported TO have been
delivered at Greencastle, Ind, in lS64 In
| that speech Abraham Lincoln was called 10y
| the most infamous names Voorhees, simply
| denies that the speech is his own. II
happens that the speech was reported by
JOSEPH g. McCullocb, now editor of the 81
Louis Globe Democrat The friends OF MI.
McCuIloch state that bis accuracy aud honor
being irnpeached, he will put Mr.. Voorhees,
| to his proofs. Mr. Voorhees, made the mis-
take after uttering his denial of Mr.. Ingalls,
charges of wandering of into long euiogy
of himself and his services. When he sat
down the senator from Kansas again rose and
with q merciess hand showered upon the
| unfortunate 1ndianian letters. reprints OF
speeches, pamphlets. documentary evidence
and letters in Voorhees, own handwriting,
| going TO prove the dallying with treason
which the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash had
INDUCED in through the war. At each fresh
charge Voorhees, would spring up and shout
that it was false. But his protests became
more and more feeble until Ingalls, sat down,
| and then he rose. In a voice
MELLOW WITH SUPPRESSED TEARS,
he struck out at Ingalls,, but ne could only
repeat, Sits lie; it has been answered by
my people" Finally ingalls, rose and asked.
eDid not the soldiers on a train in indiana
threaten to hang you with the
| in wild rage yelled, sWhen the senator
from Kansas states that he is a liar. re-
| peat it, liar, and he can pass 1t on to the
man behind him johnson of Indiana1 VINO
| informed" There was a sensation in the
galleries. but Ingalls, simply smiled con-
| temptuousy and oorhees set down trenl-
| bling like leaf During the cross fire Of
words Voorhees, called ingalls, "a
great liar and dirty dog
and compared him to a peacock on
barnyard fence Voorhees, insisted that be
had always been the true friend of the Union
soldier Eustis of Lo nisana Indignantly re
| PEELED some of Mr. Ingalls, offensive illusions
To the people of that state and Gibson ac-
| cused the Kansas senator of maligning the
| Southern people.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-10
Gand snraestinn.

Children's clothes, especially, need
good deal of looking after to keep
them in proper order. Where the
goods used for the garments are wash
able it is not so difficult to keep them
clean and neat, but even then, if wool
ems, it is not wise to wash them too Of
ten. owing to the shrinkage that is sure
to take place. No matter how care
fully they are washed, if they are
washed often, In a short while they
will surely, unless very large at first,
be too small for the person for whom
they were made, and unless there are
smaller children to utilize them they
are placed away with the rest of the
falnily's cast-off clothing, and new
garments take their places.
In looking over the clothes. when
grease spots are found, take basin of
clear, cold water, and put into it few
drops of ammonia. Fifteen drops is
enough for an ordinary sized basin.
but as this is hardly definite enough,
use enough ammonia TO make the wa
ter feel very soft, and yet will make
the hands smart. With a flannel or
cotton flannel cloth wet in this water,
rub the grease spot briskly until The
grease has disappeared. then rinse the
spot in clear water, put to dry, and
iron while slightly damp.
To remove the shiny look from black
coat collars, elbows, seams, etc., where
the nap of the cloth is not worn off en-
tlreiy, ammonia water is excellent.
but If the whole coat needs a thorough
ly good cleansing use strong black
coffee, to which has been added a few
drops of ammonia, and sponge with a
! piece of black wooden cloth.
To make black cashmere look al.
most as good as new when soiled and
faded, wash first in good soapsuds.
rinse in clear water, thea put in water
to which has been added a great deal
OF Dluelng. Have the water very blue
so much so that it will have the an.
pearance of being black. Let the
goods lie In this for some time, if very
much faded letting them lie over
night; take from the water without
Wrlnglng, and hang in shady place
70 dry. Press when slightly damn.
III dress is to be treated in this way
ana there is much trimming on it, it is
the better way 10 rip the trimmings
from the dress and wash them sonar
a1eiy, out If it is made up plain or
with only little trimming. it can be
washed without taking apart. and If
pressed carefully viii look as nice as
though washed separately. In max.
ing dress over, to be sure it ought to
De ripped apart SO there will be no
varying In shade of the pieces when
making them up. Dark blue cash
mere can be made TO look beautiful IL
washed and pressed in this way.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-10
Light on Lu@rne.

i Twas told at Greedy and elsewhere
in Colorado, that while green lucerne
(altalfal was not fit food for horses
doing hard and fast work, because it
kept the bowels too loose latter the
manner Of timothy cut and cured at
or before the blossoming period, for
other horses doing slow work, and
for farm teams, there was no oh.
lection to it. After a trial of several
months the street-car companies OF
Denver, the superintendent said, re-
jected alfalfa hay for tha reason
statedaA-',. ~l.cn d horse was turned
out for recuperation and rest. his
rations were green and dry alfalfa.
In Continental Europe, especially IN
the Southern portions where the main
dependence for late GUNNER green
forage is alfalfa, the authorities say it
is less liable to cause bloat than
common red clover. It is easy to
understand how in Colorado and
Utah, where the ranch ranges do not
bear grass enough, if mown to yield
200 pounds of hay per acre, and
where cattle have to be on the pasture
and feeding from sun up to sun down
and then lie down on half filed
stomachs, how the half starved
creatures when turned upon field oil
alfalfa would eat so fast and so much
as to produce fatal bloating.
But where cattle las in the best
pastures of Illinois) in timothy. blue
spend one hours feeding and saunter.
ing, to six hours of the day lying
down and eliminating, there would be
no more danger in rank growth oil
alfalfa than il it were clover, and
none in either case. The cattle would
be too full of green forage to eat
enough to hurt them. As green
forage or hay, alfalfa Is inferior TO
timothy, and the cloVers white and
red and far inferior to blue grass for
pasture, and where the grasses and
clovers named are certain to be
abundant, the reis little call for alfalfa
but in these vast sections of the West,
subject to annual drouth, and other
seCGlOnS EdSN HdDIe 10 peTlOulC NlSlO-
atoms of the same character, the
value Of alfalfa as forage crop can,
not be overestimated. All OF the soils
east or west OF the mountains, where
irrigation makes the crops, are good
soils and rich compared with Eastern
soils, and they win, therefore, yield
large crops OF alfalfa, but in The
Valley of the Mississippi and further
East, where the annual rainfall makes
the crops, only such soils as in wet OF
dry seasons produce good crops oil
wheat, oats. corn and red clover will
grow it successfully, and on such soils
the crop will be all the more luxuriant
if the land be biennially treated to a
liberal dose OF the potash and
phosphate fertilizers. B. F. johnson.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-10
de trees wat bears - +

hitTI make de trees wat bears ,esa Il.
er dry rot.
Drinkin' pot Ticker makes al
pretty,
De white NV er good egg'll foller y,
finger.
Shuck egg1l make de con han.
light all de same. Corn bops-mafs
finsl
Nothin' amt better eatin' dan i.
good ole yam roasted In ashes. nss
yer kin call that later blow hard y
Gaze hit takes pretty nigh All ",
breaf ter clean EN-, en- dee's sweet 4,
yer teet. &
IF de cook have smoot on her fam
hits sho' sign she's gwine er v sltls,
Ef de dishrag drap on de 90 hits :.
true sign dat hungry comp'ny's comm
~ Detroit Free Press.