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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-14

ARMY ORDERs.-Ma1. Frank T. Bennett "a cav.
airy, and Capt Leopold o. Parker, LIST infantry,
ordered for examination by the Army retiring
board at San Francisco. The extension or leave Of
absence granted First Lieut.. Francis j. Patten,
2lst infantry, November % further extended three
months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-14

The COMING COLD WAvE.-The northwestern
blizzard that brought the mercury down into the
bulb OF the the rmometers in Dakota and Mime
sofa and Michigan will not strike washington tn q
lump, as 1t were but will probably have so spent its
force and intensity before reaching the coast that
ITS eject here will be comparatively slight But
there will be enough Of 1t left to be called cold
wave which will reach this city tonight says the
Slgnal-Serv1ce Ofhcer, the lowest temperature Oc.
curing early tomorrow morning
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-14

The LATE CHIEF FBLAKKLOCK.-The Adjutant-Gen-
eral yesterday issued circular announcing the
death, on the 18th inst, OF Mr. Richard J. Blake.
lock, chief of the volunteer registers division In
which he speaks In highly eulOgistic terms OF the
services OF the deceased in the Army and In the
civil service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-14

The FISHERIES CONFERENCE met to-day at 2
O'Clock at the state Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-14

RYLAND METHODIST EPISCOPAL
nssf5T. 5T.prachiC: pSnUKoa: Rev; CHARLES W BALDwIN,
pm, Mrs GADDEss. Missionary among the Indians
VIII speak on the Home Missionary Work. Sunday
school at u a Ill. Young peoples meeting at 4o m
prayer meeting Thursday att 80 p m. All well
coine seats Tree. It,
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22
Competition and Prices.

The Argus prints three and-a-half-col-
umn speech alleged to have been delivered
at Alfred in some indefinite past time by
bon. William Emery, who, it will be remem-
bered, was nominated for Congress in this
District last month. How much reliance the
people of York county have in what Mr..
Emery says, we do not know. But if they
have much reliance we beg leave to show
them that in that speech he has made a col
lection of the barest m.sstatements and mis-
representations For instance, he declares
When taxes are high, as at this time, on neces-
sary and common articles, it takes all map can
earn 70 barely live and he is compelled 10 Iorego
tne use OF much that he might otherwise OBTAIN II
sooos were cheapened In price. The high tarlH,
~! peihg system OF high taxation, and because OF
US lnequallues; fails 10 protect the laborer ana
persons OF small means as 1t protects the rich
ceomptshnng tne poor man to pay very largely more
IMAM lnelr proportion of national taxes, and it
UNNECESSARILY protects many of the manufactur-
ers IL pelng SO great as to prevent fair COMPETE
ton with articles which can be manufactured
abroad al low cost, and such as MANY would buy
IL the tariff was only sufficiently high 70 create an
honest competition only between manufacturers
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22
He Couldn't Stand the Profession,
New York Tribune.]

1
Senator Cullom tells good story-and no
being given to practising law much himself
suppose he can afford to do so-of pros
| porous storekeeper in small illinois town
the name of which has escaped me, VIII,
| once practised law, butiwho has long sine
aba ndoned 1T. Being met by an old acquain
his giving up the profession.
"Oh. yes,o answered 'sUncle joe" as h,
was familiarly called by his friends
Didn't IL pay?"
First rate"
Meet with sufficient favor from the
courts?"
"All 1 could ask"
quit itp' ~ y
swell, III tell you'll was too honest"
"Uncle Joe" into earnestness. and he re-.
peated the strange statement, and nailed il
to his sh0p-counter with his huge fist Bni
his cross-examiner went on
wien did you find this ont?''
I'm my very last case.'
What was that?"
zone In which was retained to prosecute
neighbor for killing dog"
AND ne was acquitted? So you lost the
case, an ana gave up your profession discour.
mo, he was convicted"
Then he was guilty?"
mo, he was innocent"
but didn't the evidence prove his guilt? %
Certainly it did,"
Then why do you say he was innocent ?''
Because had killed the dog myself a
lew nights before for trespassing on my
poultry, and l came to the conclusion that
any business that would aid a man to con-
vlct neighbor OF his own crimes wasn't the
business Tor me, so | gave it up"
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22

The Republican press talks about Democrats
not the surplus shall be lessened by the reduction
OF our tariff duties from Al to 421a per cent.
That i the issue and no cheap and SHY free
are not foois.-Lewiston Gazette.
No, the people are not fools. If they were
they might believe that the great question
to be settled in this campaign is whether
we are to have Al per cent. protective
tariff or 42a per cent. protective tariff. If
they were fools they might believe that
when the Hon. William L. Putnam says
that great principles are at stake in this
campaign he means simply the great princi-
pie of 42l per cent. protection as distin-
guished from the other great principle of At
per cent. protection. If they were fools
they might thiuk that Mr.. Weston F. Th6mp-
son was invited to make speech before a
Democratic convention without knowing
that he was a free trader and would deliver
free trade speech. If they were fools they
might think that Mr.. Charles E. Allen, who
signs himself Stree trade farmer" and
whose speeches are largely adapted from
Bastiat, the prince Of free trade writers, had
inadvertently been nominated by the Demo-
Gratis of the Secone Maine District If they
were fools they might accept the denial of
the Argus, and Gazette, and Bangor Com
mercial and Rockland Opinion that they are
for free trade In the face of their repeated
denunciations of protection as robbery If
they were fools, we say, they might believe
all these things. But the people are not
fools therefore they believe none of these
things. But they do believe that when the
Hon. William L. Putnam says great princi-
pies or great principle are at stake in this
campaign, he refers to the two rival theories
of a tariff for revenue only and tariff for
revenue and for protection also. They do
believe that when avowed free traders, like
Charles E. Allen, Weston F. Thompson, and
Col. Henry Watterson are put upon the
stump by the Democratic party to present
the tariff question to the people 1t is because
their views are in accordance with the views
of the controlling element of the Democratic
party. The Lewiston Gazette, like the
Argus, in this campaign started off with
making vigorous fight against protection.
Like the Argus, its courage has oozed out
and 1t now fights only against AZ per cent.
protection and in behalf Of 42a per cent pro-
lection. Hereafter when it declares that
protection is robbery it must be understood
as meaning that AZ per cent. protection is
robbery, while 42t per cent protection is
righteousness. II it says protection OPP
presses the farmer 1t means of course that Al
per cent. protection Expresses, while 421 per
per cent protection sets him Free How
newspapers will stultify themselves for the
good of the party!
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22

at home and those abroad Uithom any reduction
Of acdges.
Now it is fact, which Mr.. Emery knows
as well as anyone else, that the laborinp
man was never as we'll off as at the present
time, never had the necessaries of life so
abundant and cheap and never euioyed so
many OF the luxuries of life. 1t may be that
there mas not been that competition "be-
tween manufacturers at home and those
ABROAD which Mr.. Emery would delight to
SEGA competition which would only result
III bringing our laborers into competition
with foreign laborers who work for less and
I'VE Tor less-but we have had domestic
competition which has developed cur re-
sources, stimulated the inventive genius of
our people, given employment to our labor
ers, and reduced prices to the lowest level
consistent with the independence and pros
perity of those laborers who produce the
articles. There is no better illustration of
the efficacy of domestic competition to bring
prices down to the proper rate than is
afforded by the paper trade, in which the
people of Maine are interested both as heavy
producers and heavy consumers. When the
duty was first laid on paner it brought w the
price, and this had the intended effect of
stimulating the manufacturer. Paper made
in America was high, and the makers real
lied large profits. David A. Wells, in 1866
declared in one of his reports, that single
paper making company had realized a
profit of $17S,000 in year and ten
others an average of $4,000 EACH
Paper was high, as much as six
teen cents pound, for a quality
which can now be bought for less than five
cents. But the manufacture was increasing
rapidly, and Mr.. Wells favored retention
OF the duty, remarking that it was good OPP
portunity ito thoroughly test the truth of
the claim made by the protectionists" that
"by stimulating domestic competition, pro-
lection could in time afford to the consumers
manufactured products at the most reason
able prices" The result has been tri-
| umphant vindication of that policy. Such
has been the result of domestic competition
that American newspapers can buy their
paper at less than the cost of the same pa
per in London; and to-day American manu.
features are exporting paper to England and
other countries But Mr.. Emery and the
other free traders will say: "But you taxed
the people several years to build up the in
dustry." Yes, but the result is an Industry
that gives employment to thousands of la
borers, good part of them right here in
Maine; and furnishes paper at the lowest
rates to consumers, who are delivered for
ever from the caprices of foreign and distant
sources of supply
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22

Doubtless the Argus is capable of saying
that protection produces strikes, for its fool
'ishness Is limitless. but so far as we know 1t
has not yet made that assertion, nor has the
PRESS accused 1t of doing SO. The state
ment the PRESS made was that the Argus
had declared that free raw materials would
prevent strikes. and it cited the experience
Of England to prove the contrary. This dec
laration was not made by Sc. A. E." or any
other correspondent but by the Argus itself.
II is contained in an editorial in its Thurs
days issue under the head Concerning
Strikes" Here Is the paragraph:
With the materials free, the most experienced
manufacturers say that they can not only supply
the home demand, but compete SUCCESSFULLY in
foreign markets-thus securing wider field
more constant employment and more remunera-
tive wages for the laboring men. With such a
policy strikes teostld disappear and the whole
country,-not favored few-would enjoy legiti.
mate, solid prosperity.
II this is not declaration that free raw
materials will prevent strikes. what is it?
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22
If we open our markets to foreign produc-


ers on equal terms with our own citizens,
say the free trade Notwithstanding the
Hon. William Emery Of AIfred-we shall re-
duce the oostof articles which the laboring
man needs and thereby will increase the pur-
chasing power Of his wages. Certainly. And
this Is one of the benefits which free trade
promises. Now let us look at another propo-
sition and see If that is not equally true.
III we permit laboring men of Europe, who
live much cheaper and can work for much
less than American laboring men, to be
brought here under contract. to make articles
which we need, to build railroads, to dig
canals. to construct houses, we shall reduce
the cost Of these things and thereby increase
the purchasing power Of the American work
ingman's wages. Isn't this proposition just
as true as the other? If the cheap labor Of
Europe is brought over here and set to max
ing WOODEN goods is 1t not true that wooden
goods can be sold cheaper and therefore the
American workingman's wages buy more Of
them If We set Europeanllaborers to building
railroads here, will not the American laborer
be benefited? win not the railroads cost less,
and will not the rates of transportation be
less? If we set foreign cheap labor at work
building houses would not they be Duilt for
less money, and would they not, therefore,
be rented for less? Certainly all these re-
suits would follow. Then why not encour-
age contract laborers to come over here and
do these thingsf The answer is that though
that policy would tend to increase the pun
chasing power Of the American laboring
mans wages, that is. make things cheaper,
would inevitably decrease his wages or pre-
vent his earning any at all. The free trade
Democracy admit this; they admit that such
a policy would be detrimental on the whole
| to the American laboring man; they admit
that the gain in the purchasing power of his
wages would be more than offset by the loss
IN the amount of his wages, and therefore
they have helped pass a law excluding con-
tract laborers. Now il this law is a wise
and salutary one then law restricting the
importation Of the products Of cheap labor
must be wise and salutary also. for they
tend to precisely the same end, namely, to
assist competition, which would reduce the
wages Of American labor. He who fayors
the exclusion Of cheap laborers must logi-
cally favor exclusion Of the products of cheap
labor; and he who favors the free importa-
ton Of the products of cheap labor cannot
logically object on economic grounds to the
importation Of cheap labor. Both tend to
cheapness, and cheapness is the great end OF
the free trade theory
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22
A new CARD TO THE PUBLIC
1.-The best advertisement for article is quality next
consideration is price,

Guncura .......... 10, S1.75 per dOZ.
Kinds Honey and Almond Cream. ........... 3
And an immense stock OF Tooth, Nail and IL
Toilet Articles too numerous to mention.
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22

GEN. ADAM X. KING, of maryIand,
will sneak at
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22
TIIden's Ready Wit.


a LNtW IOrK Irlbune.I
speaking OF Democrats and politics, Rob-
Gt q. Maxwell. the superintendent of the
Insurance Department who was here this
week, gge a good instance of the quickness
OF VIII olthat eminent Democrat, Samuel j.
illden. Mr.. Maxwell said that shortly after
the election of 1874 William Dorsheimer.
who had lst run for Lieutenant Governor
on the ticet with Mr.. Tilden, came into
MT; riders office in Wall street and said :
i have Jus received from Albany the Off
den, that IN about 300 votes ahead of Won.
You ~ recelye'0,O00 majority. and l receive
$4,000, In rrund numbers" Mr.. Tilden
smiled benlnly and then crushed Dor
$4,000 votes"
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22
THIS IS CONFIRMED
BY THE RECORDS OF THE
1878
patients who were discharged with only II
deaths), as they gained In health, vitality and
weight. In some Instances those remaining In
the Hopsital, including operations, gained

iyZf0
patients who were discharged with only II
%eh N n e n 9 1ssse VITALITY and
lne Hopsitai, including operations, gained
% pounds In 6 weeks,
81 8" n 1.
by our Hospital reports which also show that our
operations included between 80 and go different
KINDS, and every kind known In surgery, as no
case Is rejected that ne eds an operation.
Average length OF time OF all patients remaining
N tne Hospital, 3i days. or 20 days after opera
ton; and one lady rema ined IA months and then
iet restored 70 health, AFTER operations.
Murdock's Liquid Food /. adapted 90 ali
ages, ln health or disc ase, as IL will make
new blood faster than all foods prepar-
ations known, IL IL not extract or tonic,
even il ia IL a liquid, which ia nece.-ariIy
must be, as IL IL free of all insoluble mat
ter, also drugs, minerals, salts and acids.
Any person suffering from any general disease
VIII nnd tnat they are improving by the use Of one
tWeive-ounce bottle OF our liquid Food, and II so
VIII continue and IL in doubt, 'sban don if.nnd
yST Will soon be convinced ef its vnIue
value Of our Liquid Food, as that would have no
praetcal value, as no analysis can find all the
pI1PeI,Iies l any preparation and when made can
NY te ~ " what the preparations are made from,
OF u they are raw or cooked Natural mineral
waters and manufactured ones prove this fact.
practical test, as we have sustained by
cur free hcspifnls for years, covering
All eiasses OF disease and operations, fn-
cressing the number of beds annually,
when now number between 100 and 900
ssn~n enc iree-"nd restoring 90 health BY
.~so operations, with onGy ~ deaths,
showsn NO tesfsmcninl- cna obtained from
any source better Than the restored health
OIL pauents from our N osIDitnI. We are also
lndorsed by essays and discussions before
me NATIONAL Medical Societies of fsrsnt
Hritafn and tho United STATES, and 40 e.
say was ever read before amy of them ex-
cePt ON murdock's Liquid Food.
Facts nre AWAY. more convincing thau
Opinions.
Physicians are invited TO visit our Hosptal and
10 bring or send US Patients. F' ""u
Remember, II YOU wish TO restore your bahv 10
neal or preserve It's health, never change its
iood but add 10 each meal three or more dreTa ~
Murdoeks Liquid food which will restors i, ~
or needed vitality "N AeStVle us loSt
rlaes lat are not regular one Of our supposi
man A,t n.y. kept py your druggist 35 cents dozen.
Auuit supposltories, S1.20 dozen.
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22

HON. NELSON DINGLEY, JR.
win speak at
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22
SCRAT(HED 2S YEARS.
A ScaIy, stchig, skin Disease with End.
less Suffering Cured by Cuti-
cus Remedies

II had known the CUTIcURA REMEDIES
twenty-eight years go it would have saved me
$4,000 two hunted dollars) and an immense
amount OIL sunerlng My disease (Psoriasis) com
menced on my heaoin spot not larger than a
cent. IL spread rakily all over my body and got
under my nails. II scales would drop off of me
lal the time, and m suffering was endless, and
without relief. Onthousand dollars would moi
tempt me to have thiaisease over again. lam a
poor man. but feel ricto be relieved of what some
of the doctors said WI leprosy, some ring worm.
psoriasis, etc. took and 80. SarsapariIlas
over oneyear and ha, but no cure. / cannot
praise the CUTICURA IMEDIEs too much, They
have made my skin as ear and free from scales
as baby's. All usepf them was three boxes
OF CUTICuRA, ana tnIeeottles of CUTIcURA RE
SOLVENT, and two cakepf CUTICURA SOAP. If
you had been here and sd you would have cured
me for $4,000 you wou have had the money. 7
looked like the picture inour book OF Psoriasis
Sficture number TWO. nc toCure Skin Diseases J
but now am as clear any person ever was
Through force of habit ub nv hands over nv
arms and legs to scratch zee in a while but In no
purpose. ! am all well, lcratched twenty-eieht
years ana y g4l 70 pc Ky Of second nature to
more that you wart to knD write me, or any one
who reads this may write ome, and will answer
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Pruritus, Scald Head, Milk sust. Dandruff Rarb,
ana od ann Nsherwomans Itch,
ply Humors of the Skin and Sin and Blood with
Loss OF Hair, are positively cId by CUTIcrIRA.
the great Skin Cure, and CUTIyRA Soar, an ex,
REsoLvENT, the new Blood Eifer int ernalIy
when physicians and all other medies fail.
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The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22
ox II. CARLETON,
winthrop,
will speak al
HON. u. IL. G. PITKIN, of Louisiana,
will speak at
Col. Fellows pledges himself to contribut,

Nol reIoWs plcuBoo hihooh w cVn1iiuute
$1,000 to the Republican campaign fund if
anybody will show him the declaration of a
Republican in support of the doctrines of the
Chicago platform. If the Colonel has spare
thousand he had better use it to pay the
gambling debt that, according to tie New
York Times. which is justnow laboring along
with the Colonel in the interest of Democ-
racy and free trade, he avoided by pleading
that gambling was immoral.
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22

The Republican press talks about Democrats
lodging the issue.n The issue is whether OF
not the surplus shall be lessened by the reduction
Of our tariff duties from Al to 421a per cent.
That is the issue and no cheap and silly "free
trade" scare can drive 1t out of sight. The people
are not fOOiS.-I,eWistOn Gazette
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUG. ss.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu
aications. 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., 1888-08-22
1VAsAn
will speak at
sOLON CHASE
\. q. JORDAN. Of Aifred.


HON. w. q. pOAN, Of Pennsylvania,
Connecticut western news., 1888-06-20
A Queer Mode of Catching Fish.

A lazy but unlawful method of ob- taining fish from the ponds was once quite common. This was stupofying or drugging the fish by means of some nar- cotic plants. Tho favorito growth for this purpose was tho devils shoe-string. small plant with extremely long, tough, and slender roots. This queer plant, with its uncanny name, was much used by the Indians as Q medicine, and is said to be tho basis for several blood purifiers with long and alliterative names. A plentiful supply of tho plant being obtained the individual finds a log which projects we'll out into tho water, and getting astride of it dips it in and alternately beats it with a stick or paddle. After every good beating it is shaken about in the wator and the supply replenished, and this continued until tho pond is thoroughly improg- hated with tho singular properties of the weed. The fish socn commence rising to the surface and gasping as if for breath. A few faint struggles fol- low and then the fish lie helpless m d inert upon the surface only to be gathered in and serve as Q meal. It is said that the meat is not at all affected by the treatment the fish have undergone, but it is with considerable squeamishness
 
 and trepidation that person for tho first time dimes upon poisoned or mar cotizcd fsh.-[ Atlanta Constitution.
Connecticut western news., 1888-06-20
A Will Signed Without Ink.

The will of Dorothoa E. Jacob, who died on January IA, has been admitted to probate, the proving of the signature having bee, chiefly duo to magnifying glass. It was exccutel three days be- fore death and tequeathel her estate, valued at ssOOO, to her husband, Adam Jacob. Tho signatures of two witness es were appended. Tho initials D and J of the testatrix's name were the only visible letters, and when tho will was offered for probate Doputy Register Shields was doubtful about being able to prove it, but under glass tho pen marks became leyible, and the docu- ment was accepted. Attached to the will was certificate by Henry D. Wire man, attorn ey. to tho effect that in the presence of Deputy Register Shields he examined the signature of Dorothca Jacob to her will, executed iu the ex- tremity of her last illness; that to the naked eye the initials D and J were plainly seen made with ink, and the remaining letters of tho full name, somewhat indistinct, impressed upon the paper by the pen without any ink marks, but that under magnifying glass the full name was distinct, the ini- tials D and J being in ink, and tho re- maining letters impressed on the paper by the pen without ink.