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The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04

the feet, affects the iron in the system, tones
up the nerves and makes sleep refreshing
and invigorating. But if the person sleeps
the wrong way and fails to become magneti-
cally en- rapport with the earth, he will then
probably be too magnetic, and he will have
fever resulting from the magnetic forces
working too fast, or he win not be magnetic
enough and the great strain will cause feel
ing OF lassitude, sleep will not be refreshing,
a III the morning he will have no more
energy than there Is in cake of soap.
=, some persons may scott at these ideas, but
tne greatest scientific men of the world have
STUDIED the, subject. Only recently the
French Academy of Science made expert
ments upon the body of guillotined man.
wmch go to prove that each human system
Is IN itself an electric battery, one electrode
being represented by the head, the other by
the feet, The body was taken Immediately
after death and placed on a pivot, to move as
II might: After some vacillation the head
portion turned towards the north. the body
then remained stationary. One Of the pro-
fessors turned it half way round, but it soon
regained its original position, and the same
result was repeatedly obtained, until organic
movements finally ceased
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04
Your Head to the North.
[st. Louis Globe.pemocrat.l


A doctor says: There is no doubt in my
mind but that the belief that human beings
should sleep with their bodies lying north
and south has its foundation in true scientific
facts. Each human system has magnetic
poles-one positive and one negative. Now,
it is true that some persons have the positive
pole in the head and the negative pole in The
feet, and rice sersG. In order that the per-
son sleeping should be in perfect harmony
with the magnetic phenomena of the earth
the head, II it possess the positive pole, should
lie TO the south, or. if the feet possess the
positive pole, the head should lie to the north
The positive pole should always lie OPP
posite to the magnetic centre of the continent
and thus maintain magnetic equilibrium.
The positive pole Of the person draws one
way, but the magnetic pole of the earth draws
the other way and forces the blood toward
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04

get RID Of the present tariff, distinct admis-
sion that 1t is to be got rid of by 'insidious
lnstallments," and distinct admission that
the Mills bill is one of those ''insidious in
stallments." There are no typographical
errors in it, and the insinuation that the
PRESS has been ouibbling is entirely unjus-
titled hv the fact
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RECEPTION HALL,
City Building, Portland,
Wednesday, the Sth Of August, 1888,
mt 10 o'clock in the Foreuoou

to nominate candidates for the following ofices /:
our Senators. County Attorney, Sheriff, Judge of
svsate, Register of Probate, County Treasurer,
county Commissioner; and also to choose a
>ounty Committee for two years and do any other
business which may properly come before the
convention.
The basis for representation will be one dele
gate for each city and town and one additional
for each 70 Republican votes cast for Governor
at the last State election, and one delegate for
fraction of 40 votes. The delegates have been
apportioned upon the foregoing basis as follows:
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04

The Portland Herald appears half inclined
to recommend the Prohibitionists to support
Mr.. Robinson. who is practically already
nominated for county attorney by the Repub
llcans. The Herald should follow its incllna-
tons in this case. In no way can 1t better
aid the cause 1t processes to have at heart
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04

II the Third Party Prohibitionists are wise
they will bottle up their candidate for Vice
President, Mr.. John A. Brooks, until after
election. The speeches he has been making
In the west show that there is power of
mischief in him for his party. He has been
thanking God on the stump cut there that
while he has been rebel, a stakeholder and
fire-eating Democrat, he has. never been a
Republican.
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CURRENT COMMENT.
AN IRooUoIs.

AN IRoQUOIs.
Senator Vance of North Cardinal
No civil service reform for me. When
fight a man and lick him his scalp is mine.
CLEvELAND's MISTAKE.
Leopold Morse.l
| am firmly of the opinion that If President
Cleveland had not written his bold message
on the tariff he would have had walk over.
AN OBSERVATION ON BARBEcUEs.
Howell Courier.]
The crowd that barbecue brings together
may be far from being solid for the party
that gives the barbecue.
TIGHTENING IN 1T.
Boston Transcript
This campaign seems to be a race between
the Republican train, and the Harrison cleo
trio motor as pr0pelling power, and the
Cleveland bob-tail car, drawn by Barnum's
mules. The car is hosting the red bandanna
as signal of distress, and is going rapidly
to the rear.
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04

We have some specially good
trades I'm our Linen Department..
BIeached Damask Tor 35, 80,
AZ, so and 10 cents per yard.
Cream Damask for rs, "a I-2,
42, so and as cents per yard.
Turkey Red Damask for rs, 30,
3J, 40 and as cents per yard.
Towels, Napkins, DOylies, White
Oufffs. &c. saf
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Rhymes of the Season.

t'ooHAh6sVh NAitAS.l
If a body kiss a body,
Need a body cry?
Well, hardly. if some other body
Isn't standing by.
IHarper's Bazar.l
admit, dear Charles, told Miss jones
l really did not like you
Perhaps the meaning Of my WORDS
Doth not yet fully strike you.
SO hear me swear by all the stars
A-twinkling now above you,
The reason why like you not
Is this: because l love you.
boston Transcript
Ping wing, the pieman's son,
The vely worst chic all Canton!
He stole he mother picklum mice,
He thlow he cat in bilin lice,
Then ch0w-ch0w up; and then talk he,
my wonda where that meow-cat bel"
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04
SKIN, SCALP and BLOOD
Diseases Cured by Cuticura Remedies
when Hot Springs, Doctors and
all other Medicines fail.

Having been sufferer for two years and a half
from disease caused by bruise on the leg, and
having been cured by the CUTICURA REMEDIES
when all other methods and remedies failed,
deem it my duty to recommend them. / visited
without success. and at last our principal drug.
gist, Mr.. John P. Finlay ito whom Shall ever
feel gratefully, spoke to me about CUTIcURA and
/ consented to give them trial with the result
that am perfectly cured. There is now no sore
about me. think can show the largest surface
where my sufferings sprang from of any one in the
State. The CUTICURA REMEDIES are the best
blood and skin cures manufactured. 1 refer to
druggist John p. Finlay and DIR. ID. G. Mont
gomery, both of this place. and DR.. Smith, of Lake
Lee, Miss.
ALEXANDER BEACH, Greenville, Miss.
Mr.. Beach used the CUTICURA REMEDIES at
our request, with results as above stated.
A. b. FINLAY & CO., Druggists.
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04

The County Committee viii be in session at the
hall at o'clock In the forenoon on the day of the
convention to receive the credentials of delegates
and attend to such other business as may be nee
sssary.
ISAAC w. DYER, Chairman.
AUGUSTUS II. brown, Secretary.
Portland July Q, 1888.
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THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, AUG. 4.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu
nications. The name and address Of the writer
are IN all indispensable, not necessarily for
publication but as guarantee Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or nreserva
communications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04
8 Cents Per Yard.

We have n full line of French
Finished satines in Plain COiors
and Figured, at
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04
ALeveI-headed Rishop.

Overwhelmed Bishop.
Here Is Bishop Vincent's contribution to
the campaign, which shows his thousands of
Chautauquan friends that he is true blue:
Dear Mrs. Billings-I did not go to Elenville
to talk politics; therefore the uncertainty about
my position among those who heard me. am
not a third party man." Being a true prohibit
Zionist, j am a Republican. Truly yours, ETC.,
JOHN H. VINCENT.
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04

The Republican campaign has hardly be-
gun in Maine as yet, and that full and fair
presentation Of the case of protection
against free trade, which the Republican or
ators will make, has hardly begun. But the
merits and force Of the issue itself have
made some encouraging revelations for the
Republican side; for they have shown that
the people Of Maine are thinking of the
great economic question and are prepared to
throw party ties aside in the expression of
their convictions. The accession of men
like Archibald Linn of Hartland and the
Leight0ns, in Washington county, to the COL
umn Of Gen. Harrison's supporters, comes
before the Republicans of Maine have fairly
begun their campaign, and shows
that the people are all ready to
receive favorably the arguments which the
Republican orators will advance Our des-
patches report this mornins another and
most important accession to the party of pro-
lection. The Bradstreets of Gardiner are
among the best known and most influential
Democrats in Maine. They are business
men who have built up and maintained a
great industry which has given employment
to hundreds of men. Their opinion on a
question like the tariff question is of the
greatest value, because 1t is based on ex-
perience. They believe that the Democratic
programme, If carried out. would injure
seriously the great lumber industry of
Maine; and like men Of sense have decided
to take the surest way of preventing this by
supporting Harrison and Morton. The fight
for Harrison and Morton is winning fight;
and 1t takes only glance along the skirmish
line here in Maine to see that it is.
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04
s lea Gents.

The American Safines which
have been sold by everybody nt
I2 LIZ cents, we shall sell mt
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04
50 Cents Per Yard.

One lot OF Twill Figured De-
laines. These goods have sold
this season at ne I-2 cents; we
shall put them ON sale at
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION,

The Republicans of Cumberland County are
hereby requested to send delegates to a County
Convention to be held at
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04

which seem 20 please the people.
I'm our Gents Furnishing Goods
Department remember the old re-
liable White Shirts-The senator,
BOnanza and Rivals, tailor cut.
tailor made, perfect fitting, and
the best quality for the money
that can be bought, mt
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04

Examine my stock, and you will find
the best line, and the largest assortment
OF Salmon and Trout Flies TO be found
In the State. Special bargains In fine
Lakewood, Bamboo and Greenheart Fly,
ing Tackle. Agent for the ssNew Mall,
and American sIdealv BICYCLES, none
better made. Also, the ''IyeI, safety
wheel. Agent for Da Points Powder
Mills, and Atlas Powder. Wholesale
and retail. g. l.. BAILEY, 263 Middle
Street, Guns and Sporting Goods.
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04
SKIN DIsEAsE5YEARs CUREu.

Your CUTIcURA REMEDIES did wonderful
things for me- They cured my skin disease,
which has been of five years standing, after
hundreds of dollars had been spent in trying to
cure it.. Nothing did me any good until l COM
Our house viii never be without them.
MRS. ROSA KELLY.
Rockwell City, Calhoun Co., Ia.
Sold everywhere. Price, CUTICURA, Soc.
SOAP, 25c.; REsoLvENT, 81. Prepared by the
POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co.. Boston,
Mass.
nS-Send for chow to Cure Skin Diseases .
"a pages, 30 Illustrations and 100 testimonials
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04


Astarlh Which imposes an average duty of
40 per cent. may be protective tariff or
tariff for revenue only. The average per-
centage of duty has very little to do with de-
termining the kind of tariff. Suppose but
four articles were imported into this coun-
try-tea, coffee, wool and lumber. Suppose
that Congress should impose duty of so per
cent. about the present duty on sugar. on
tea and coffee and admit wool and lumber
free. We should have an average tariff of
40 per cent, but it would be tariff for reve-
nue. only, for duty on coffee and tea could
protect no home industry, for neither can be
produced in this country. To undertake to
determine the character Of the Mills bill from
the average rate Of duty is absurd. The only
way to ascertain that is to examine what its
tendencies are as manifested in the selection
Of articles for revenue. Nobody claims that
the Mills bill accomplishes free trade. The
claim is that 1t begins the destruction of the
protective system, and the inauguration of
the revenue only system. Whether that
claim Is true or not cannot be determined
by the average rate Of duty it imposes. The
articles which it puts on the free list tend to
determine that, and those are all articles of
home production. That is the reason, and
1t is very conclusive one, which protection
lists give for asserting that it is free trade
measure.
The Portland daily press., 1888-08-04
sCROFULA7Y YEARS CUgED,

SCROFULA . YEARS CURED.
have been troubled with scrofula seven years,
when first started on the top of my head, giving
me infinite trouble, with constant itching, casting
of OF dry scales, and watery liquid exuded from
under the scales. treated 1t for seven years I'M
successfully. and was unable to check it until
found your CUTICURA REMEDIES. One box CUT
ICURA, one cake CUTICURA SOAP, and one bottle
CUTICURA REsoLvENT completely cured me, my
skin becoming perfectly clear and smooth.
s. j. DAVIS,
ArteSia, Los Angeles Co., Cal.
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pIMPLES, blackheads, red rough chapped and
I'M oily skin prevented by CUTIcTRA Soar.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-14
Sinking An Artesian Well.

In attempting to decide as to when an
a~rtesian well will succeed this general
principle must be borne in mind: Water
that falls on the earth's surface either
flows off in rills and streams, or evapor-
ates, or sinks into the earth. That which
sinks flows downward until it meets a
non-porous stratum; it follows the sur
face of this, still downward and onward,
to break out at the base of some ravine
or slope as a spring, or to fill some hid
den reservoir. When, as it sometimes
happens, the reservoir is large, its pres
sure forces springs to the surface, far
out in the valley, or even out at sea. At
the foot of canyons and in the lower levels
of small valleys it is always reasonable to
bore for a~rtesian water, but first, the
fountain head must be higher; second,
the surface water dips toward the well
third, the porous and %non-porous strata
must alternate.
The ordinary diagrams of artesian
basins are insufficient, for they make the
supply appear in narrow veins, which is
more rare. The artesian basin is
best illustrated by :. ..c of saucers with
porous paper placed berween them. The
water fills between and rises TO the rim.
The nearer the of a basin a well
is the deeper it has to extend to strike
water. Artesian wells are not always
flowing wells.
Thousand of wells that are rightly
called a%rtesian bring the water from deer
strata nearly to the surface, but require
some pumping. The ideal we'll is, Of
course, the flowing well, delivering its
supply like a fountain at the surface OF
higher. Once put down, an a~rtesian
well is, of purse complete and requires
no further expense to run it and nothing
for repairs. Charles II. Shinn in Over
land Monthly.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-14
THE LAWS JUGGLERY.
From the Albany Journal.

n recent incident in this city pretty
we'll illustrates the elasticity and resour-
ce> of the law. \ gentleman bought at
auction an alleged brick house for $4,000,
paying $500 down. The same evening
he was informed by friends that ii was
not a genuine brick house. but a wen
eered" one-that is, a frame house with
a single thickness of brick outside. He
consulted lawyer y. as soon as possible,
and he lawyer secured an injunction re-
straining the auctioneer from paying
over the $500 to the seller. and then
brought suit to recover the $500 and
$1,000 damages. Lawyer b., represent
ing the seller of the house, looked into
the matter. consulted one or two archi-
tects. and became satisfied that he had
no case: that lawyer A. was right in
claiming that the house was not brick,
and that Il fraud had been committed in
selling it for a brick house. He there
fore compromised with lawyer y. by re-
turning the $500. The auctioneer was
unable to collect his commission from
the seller, the latter claiming that he
had instructed the auctioneer to sell the
house for what ii was, and had not au-
thorized him to sell il rs a brick house.
The au~ctioneer then consulted lawyer A.
t. see if he could aid him. But you adj
vertised and sold the house as a brick
house," YES" Then if we can prove
it was a brick house | think we can re-
cover" replied lawyer A. He then
looked around and found two or three
builders who were willing to testify that
it was a brick house. The foundation
and basement were brick. He then
brought suit to recover the SIS commits
sion, lawyer b. again representing the
seller. At the trial lawyer A was on
hand with several witnesses to prove that
the house was a brick one. Lawyer B..
was not prepared for this line of attack
by \. and had no witnesses on hand to
rebut him, and A. secured a Judgment
for the S75 with costs.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-14
HOME

The world likes to see an enterprising
town, and such a place is likely to be a
good place to live in. Enterprise does not
necessarily mean extravaganza. 1t mean
life, activity, calculation, demonstrated.
1t means thrift by skill and work instead
of by mere miserliness. Thrift by such
means gives contentment and happiness,
and a community enjoying it has little
room or encouragement for mean tongues
and mean dispositions. The enterprising
town is a pleasant place for a permanent
home, and instead of being a first-class
hamlet to move out of it is left, if at all,
with feelings of regret.
Busting manufactures are not neces-
sary to the realization of this ideal. a
purely agricultural community may be
wide-awake and vigorous. 1t will pro-
duce good crops and market them at
home. 1t will have good tradesmen at
home and will patronize them for what
it needs. 1t will have skilled mechanics
and give them encouragement to remain.
1t will have good schools and good
churches, well attended because it shall
be profitable to attend them. 1t will read
the papers and a lot of good books. Its
people will keep pace with the progress
of the world. and they will secure as
much as practicable of that higher cul-
lure WHICH measures lle ulstdlCe DelWeell
the enlightened and the heather races,
between the noblest and the most ignOble
of men. Development, enjoyment being
our destined end and way" it should be
the aim to live in the higher sense which
makes life enjoyable. Thus it is that lit
erary culture and social warmth are
among the forces of an enterprising
neighborhood.
Social GOODNESS means personal selfish
ness, and a community of individuals liv-
ing exclusively for self means, in quaint
old phrase. 1.-THE devil for them ALL" Peo-
pie must get together and manifest an in
terest in each other (besides at town
meeting). to make their society such as
will attract rather than repel good citi-
zens. They need such excellent schools
as will provide for them a generation of
successors competent to advance the in
~terests of their They need TO be
doing something all the time to elevate
every class among them, as well as to
reach out by humble contributions to up
lift the faraway heathen.- Exchange.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-14
Doing the Wrong Thing.

Wesley, my colored man of all work,
possesses in a wonderful degree the abil-
ity to understand just what you don't
say. One day l called him to the garden
gate and pointing down a walk on either
side of which grew some shrubbery, said:
"Wesley, I want you to trim the
shrubbery on the left hand side of this
walk"
Eyes, UNI"
Aware of his aptitude for misunder-
standing, 1 repeated, Remember now,
Wesley, the left hand side.'
"Yes, 'um."
A few hours later he came to say the
work was done. l went to the gate and
found the shrubbery on the right hand
closely cut while the left remained un-
touched. wesley" 1 said angrily,
didn't l tell yol. to trim the left hand side
and not the right"
Eyes, UNI, but I begun at ter cen no
the walk. Detroit Free Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-14

Every inch Of open ground in Paris is
made available. and the tiniest park has
its benches free, and the more aristocratic
chairs, which may be had for two or
three sous an hour. The beautiful Bots
de Bologne, rapidly recovering from the
destruction and desolation of the last
days of the Communal war, has its
groups scattered in the shade of thicket
or tree over all the 2.700 acres. while a
constant stream of carriages in the main
roads and of bicycliHts wherever they are
allowed pours through all day long,
though notably larger and more brilliant
in the afternoon. Here, as everywhere
enjoyment. The cafes plan ingeniously
to make the most OF the plot of ground
at side or front, and the little gardens are
marvels of art. A glass of sugar water
or cup of coffee gives right to space as
long as a drop fingers, and by early even
ing every place is filled.
That there is q working Paris is very
certain, but the face is so disguised that
playing Paris seems the only tangible
thing, and watching these throngs that
come and go one wonders when and how
the work is done. Wandering acrobats,
who lay their strip of carpet in any
vacant space, and are instantly sur
rounded by a group eager to be enter
tanned; jugglers of all grades, Punch and
Judy shows, puppet shows, trained dogs,
and a thousand other varieties of amuse-
ment are before one at every turn, and
when these lesser means fail, there is
the Trocadero, with its enormous con-
cert hall, its beautiful corridor, where
n may walk or linger to gaze at the
rushing cascade, the innumerable colored
lights, and the gay throng which pours
through it till midnight. The lower end
of the Champs Elysees and the gardens
of the Tuileries are lined with attractions
less p%retentious but apparently as popu-
lar, and turn where one will, from the
stately Odeon to the smallest cafe chan.
tant on the narrowest and most obscure
of streets, it is always Paris, amusing it.
self to its utmost bent, and well content
so long as the stimulus continues. Heller
Campbell's Paris Letter.