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The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28

The present weather has set the old set
tiers Of Boston to thinking Of the cold days
of 1874, when it was necessary to cut long
canal in the ice from the dock in South Bos-
ton to allow the steamer Britannia to 60 to
sea on her voyage to Liverpool Speaking Of
that canal the Boston Post says it was slime
of black water in the broad expanss of ice,
whose surface on either side was occupied
with booths and peanut stands, some Of
which, IL was rumored in that day, remained
too latesnd melted their way through to the
kpottom Of thu -hor-" The cold in Boston
this year has lloduced no such results as the
extended cold snap Of 1874 More remarka-
BILE than the cold weather of this winter was
the severity Of Thursdays storm. When the
sun appeared the trouble had but begun, and
in Maine at least, the hard and high drifts
will trouble travellers and impede business
for days and perhaps weeks.
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28
ProhIbItIon and LIcense.

Those people who are so fond of telling us
how much license is to be preferred to pro-
hibition and how much more satisfactory
are its results, can find some food for re-
Election in what he's just taken place in
the Massachusetts Legislature. Massachu-
sets for many years past has had local
option law, under which cities and towns
license or prohibit the liquor traffic, as their
inhabitants deem best. Under this law the
policy of some cities and towns has been to
prohibit rumselling entirely, in others the
traffic has been restricted, or sought to be by
license. The people of Massachusetts, have
had the opportunity, therefore, to watch the
operations of the two methods side by
side. 1t is fair to presume that the great ma
jority of them would judge between these
two systems purely on the results they pro-
duced. OF course there are some who would
reject license, even II its results were better,
on conscientious grounds, but they are COM
paratiyely few. Now if license has been
working so admirably in Massachusetts, as
its advocates tell us it will work, and prohi-
bition has been working SO badly as its
opponents assure us it always must work, it
would be reasonable to expect that the ten
tency among Massachusetts, people would
be toward the universal adoption of the for
mer system. We should expect to find
towns and cities that had started in with
prohibition changing to license, and that
system constantly growing in favor with the
mass of the people.
such been the case? The passage Of
a resolve by large majority of the members
OF both branches of the Massachusetts Legis-
lature submitting a constitutional amend
ment in obedience to the recommendation Of
the political party which almost habit
ually controls the State, does not look like it.
On the contrary it points in precisely
the opposite direction and shows con-
clusiyely that it is not license, but prohibi-
ton which has been increasing in favor. 1t
will be said that this action was political
move and that many Of the men who voted
for 1t did not believe in prohibition. But
that is tantamount to an admission that it is
popular move, which it would not be un-
lie IS there were a tendency among the people
to reject license and substitute throughout
1.-The State prohibition in its stead. IL license
were generally satisfactory, if it had met the
expectations Of the people there would be no
inducement for the politicians to listen to the
prohibitionists because they would lose more
votes by so doing than they would gain. 1t
is upon the advancing wave of popular senti-
ment that the politician always seeks to get
and not upon the receding SO that to say
that the passage Of the resolve is the work of
politicians after votes is TO admit that prohi-
bition is the advancing wave and license the
receding-in other words that the sentiment
of Massachusetts, people who have seen the
workings Of prohibition and license side by
side for many years is setting toward the
former and away from the latter.
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28

The Republicans of the Eleventh Congress
sional district of Michigan have nominated
Henry W. Seymour, of Sault Ste. Marie to
fill the seat left vacant by the death of Mr..
Moffat. 1t took one hundred and sixteen
ballots to make the nomination, among Mr..
Seymour's competitors being so prominent
politician as ex-Congressman Jay HUB
oil
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28

The proposed exodus of Southern negroes
to Brazil will probably not materialize to
any great extent, and it is not for the well
fare Of the negro that it should Many at
tempts have been made to COLOMBO the ne
groes, and as a rule they have not turned
out well. The Liberian Republic is good
deal of failure. and its citizens, if
the stories that come from there are trust
worthy, are drifting toward barbarism. The
Southern negro has much to complain of
where he is, his treatment is not such as he
is entitled to and rights guaranteed him by
the constitution are denied him. Yet it is
very much to be doubted If his present con-
dition and future prospects will be improved
by emigrating elsewhere.
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28

Company have lost on its coal operations In
the past 10 years went into miners wages
THE NEW ENGLAND RESERVOIR.
rLondon Times.l
Tho hungry soil to which the MayflOwer
brought its pilgrims is better mother of
keen, brave men than caterer for their mate
rial wants. Massachusetts and the sister
States have been perpetual nursery whence
the continent has supplied Itself with pion-
GERS of industry and agriculture. Whatever
diversity of treatment the infinite variety of
American circumstances required, the exact
instrument demanded has always been found
ready In the arsenal of New England shrewd-
ness, stubbornness and mother wit.
EVERYTHING IN HIS FAVOR BUT LOCALITY.
tRockland Free Press.l
While the Free Press is inclined to favor
the nomination Of Hon. K. G. Burleigh, who
seems to be quite unanimously supported as
a candidate OF the eastern section of the
State, we concur in the statement Of our
Portland contemporary, that, should Mr.:
Cleaves be selected as the standard bearer OF
the Republican party in Maine, in the COM
ing election, he would receive its hearty and
united support" Cumberland county hay-
ing had the honor of furnishing the Governor
for two terms preceding the election of the
late Gov. Bodwcll, however, we apprehend
that public voice will award it Ito some other
locality at the next election.
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28

The Republicans of Vermont are actively
at work forming clubs and in other ways
preparing for the campaign of 1888. Be-
cause they can roll up majority larger than
the whole Democratic party the Republicans
of the Green Mountain State do not find
therein auy reason for slumber.
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28

SATURDAY MORNING. JAN. ss.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu.
uications The name and address of the writer
are IN all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for
publication but as a guarantee OF good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28

The green hands who are taking Uncle
Bill Morrisons place in drawing up Demo-
cratic tariff bill, are doing some unusual
things. They want to draw up their bill
without the Republicans participating in the
work. But as there are,.of course minority
Of Republicans on the ways and means COM
mite, Mr. Mills and his Democratic friends
have adopted the plan Of stealing away and
holding hearings in secret. The Republican
members of the committee, instead of at
tempting the Improbable task of hunting
them up, have wisely gone to work consider
ing the subject by themselves
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28

The Concord People and Patriot taunts
Maine with the fact that she has never 1nr-
nished a President Nor Maine wouldn't
try to either if she thought she couldn't fur
nish better product than Franklin Pierce.
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28
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HEADINGS PHILANTHROPY
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The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28

The Autobiography and "reminiscences Of
Mr.. w. P. Firth, Of the Royal Academy of
London, will be found pleasant and varied
reading. In his long and successful career
Mr.. Firth has met many persons worth
knowing, and under conditions favorable to
observation. He sees keenly and good
naturally. and his gossip is of an agreeable
sort which harms no one. His styles wholly
without pretsnsion; easy and ready of
words, he tells great deal that is worth
knowing; and incidentally makes many SEN
sibie and authoritative remark. on art and
its requirements. 1t would be impossible in
the limits of brief review to give even the
names of the eminent or original people Of
whom Mr.. Firth has something to say; but
the reader Of these "reminiscences will find
great store of entertainment in the Academi-
clans frank and unaffected record. (New
York: Harper & Brothers; Portland: Lor-
ing, Short & Harmony
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28

The Massachusetts Club has planned to
have in the winter and spring series of inter-
esting memorial days at which will be given
personal "reminiscences of distinguished past
members Of the club. The series will begin
today. which has been set apart to the mem
DRY Of John A. Andrew. Among those
present will be such veterans as Albert G..
Browne, Governor Andrews private secreta-
ry. Charles Carleton Coffin, the distinguished
war correspondent and historian, the Hon.
E. F. Stone, State Senator in 1861, and the
Hon. A. A. Ranney, Estate Representative in
1868. The days Of the war are not $50 far in
the past that there are not many men in
Massachusetts, who must remember much
about the great war Governor. The remin-
iscences today ought to be very many, and
they are certain to be very interesting.
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28
n Per Cent First Mortgages in Kansas.

m During the next 80 days We Shall give our Gus
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The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28

The Portland Press formally announces Hon.
II. b. Cleayes Of that city is a candidate for Gov
ernor. Hasn't Cumberland county had enough
for the presen7-Farmington Chronicle.
The locality argument for or against man
for the office of governor is pretty poor one.
No man should be selected because he comes
from Cumberland county,or Franklin county
or Aroostook county, neither should he be
rejected for such reason. The question
should be, not where the candidate comes
from, but what he is and what kind of gov
ernor he will make. When a man urges that
he ought to be selected as candidate for
governor because he comes from certain
county he is pretty hard up for arguments,
and whom newspaper urges that a man
should not be selected because he comes from
a certain county it is in the same condition
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28
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The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28

The Poems of the late David Atwood Was
son are published according to his expressed
desire, and will be welcomed by choice
group of readers. The superb courage and
mounting hopefulness of his spirit which
only gained swiftness and sight from his
bodily infirmity and blindness. sound tri-
umphantly in his verse. The technical merit
and poetic quality of his work varied per-
haps modern theology and philosophy, how
ever sound and liberal, do not lend them
selves so freely to art as do the pictorial be-
liefs of the past Yet in the long poems,
such as the Babes of God and The Confession,
beautiful expressions and figures frequently
vary the somewhat heavy and elaborate
design. The soliloquy of Orpheus. after the
second loss of Eurydice, is anything but
Greek, although stately and balanced. 1t
contains striking and noble images, but they
are, for tho most, of modern meditatiyo tone.
Mr.. WATSON was noble thinker; but his
verse moves most freely in dramatic and
lyric vein. Scipio to the Senate is gener-
ously imagined. The little dialogue between
the ghosts Of Addison and Carlyle gives pre-
cisely the clue to the technical faults of the
poetry of Mr.. Wasson-aimlng at compact
ness and point, he adopted and coined words
quito foreign to the spirit of poetry as well
as Of the English language. At the same
time, rare virtue in transcendental writer,
his meaning Is never unintelligible. Tho
Sanded Floor. Tho Rival Preacher. The
Bride are genuine and natural drama; and
Shireen is deliciously tuneful. The Sonnets
are modelled rather after the English than
the italian classics; containing occasional
fine lines, they lack ease and movement In
the rapturous Joy Month and Ais We'll, the
poets voice and feeling are at their height
of optimism. Boston Lee g. Shepard;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-28

tributes to the current thought of his times
Azan," was Immediately accepted by critics
and by the public. The Light of Asia,
much more extended and ambitious work,
shared the same favor; although 1t may be
open to the comment that its doctrines are
more or less consciously filtered through a
Christian mind before they are offered as
examples of Buddhist belief. Just now, Mr..
| Arnold's work seems decorative rather than
| doctrinal. In the volume of verse collected
under the title of Lotus and Jewel, are
| found variety of subjects and metres
| treated fancifully and with extraordinary
knowledge of minute details of Indian life
and thought The effect is sometimes bril-
liant; sometimes bizarre and confused, as If
the artist had studied the intricate, alternate
| ly mystic and trivial details of Hindoo lore
until his sense of proportion and Of outline
was somewhat bewildered by the images and
| fancies that throng into his verse like troop
of Indian dancers with color of robes and
flash of jewels and tinkle of rings. In tho
! series of verses called A Casket Of Gems.
Mr.. Arnold displays rapid imagination,
| curious learning, and flexible treatment of
metre, in which he allows phrases to run
from line to line and stanza to stanza with
| the freedom Of blank verse. Sometimes the
| effect is admirable, occasionally the music
| is too abruptly modulated. In an Indian
| Temple is ratherdramatic colloquy between
an Indian priest, Nautch-girl and an
Englishman; but the reader will be apt to
find it a little too frankly decorative in its
use of Indian words and ideas. Grishma is
brilliant succession of sensuous pictures,
| In an exactng metre which 10 sometimes
| handled with great charm and sometimes
shows the strain of Its rhythm and rhyme.
On the whole Mr.. Arnold is scarcely at his
best in this volume; has done and can
| again do work super to these poems In
which he has sacrificed something Of value
for sake Of novelty and emphasis. Boston
Roberts Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short
| & Harmony
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Lotus and Jewel is the beautiful name
which Mr.. Edwin Arnold has chosen for
recent volume Of verse. mostly suggested by
or translated from Hindoo and Sanskrit
legends. 1t would be difficult to determine
whether Mr.. Arnolds art is more cause OF
an effect of the modern fancy for Buddhism
and esoteric research. AT all events, he is
poet; and in his quality poet actively con-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-23

A DISPATCH to that reliable paper, the
Chicago Globe, announces that the Dem
ocratic club of Ramsey, Illinois, pre-
sided over by Hon. John M. Price, the
largest wool-grower in the county, held
large open air meeting last week,
which was eloquently addressed, and
the following evening it held business
meeting, which was harmonious and
enthusiastic. Democrats are confident
and aggressive, Republicans despond-
ent and defensive. Fayette County, in
which Ramsey is situated, will, it is pre-.
dicted, increase her Democratic major
ity of 500 to 700. Wool-growers else
where seem to have no difficulty in be-
longing to the right side; it is only in
Utah, where votes don't count, that
such things exist. Perhaps this is be-
cause there is no other means by which
the owner of dozer or so of the woody
nuisances can let the public know he has
them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-23
NOTICE.
PIONEER SAMPLING MILL

D MACINTOSH, PROPRIETOR OF
IL. the Pioneer Sampling Mill, burned
Saturday night, informs the mining public
that he has made satisfactory arrangements
to Sample and Handle all Ores as hereto
fore; so shippers may forward as usu Il; the
same Promptness, Accuracy and Dispatch
can be relied on.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-23

SOME OF the Republican papers are
complaining because Mr.. Harrison, the
Indiana gentleman, is being over
worked. He is On dress parade at home
every day and is now making tour in
the wake of the gallant Thurman, and
they fear serious results. Don't be
armed; let Harrison go right ahead
with his work. He will have plenty of
time to rest after the 9th of November.