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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-01-17
EXCURSIONS TO CALIFORNIA
EVERY WEEK Via ALL LINES.

Agent, b. q NJ. and NJ. @. II. r., Union sfafion
Congress Ct. Lowest rates to ali points West and
South. dae2Odf
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
ALL RIGHT IF THE TAX Is PAID.
Oklahoma VIII Not be a Dry Territory Uns

Oklahoma VIII Not be Dry Territory Uns
der the Latest Ruling.
WASHINGTON, April 1S.-Mr. Mason,
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue, has de-
cided that under the recent act of Congress
and the proclamation of the President in re-
lation to Oklahoma it ceases to be 'Indian
country" and that special tax stamps may
may be sold to wholesale and retail liquor
dealers, to engage in business there, under
the same terms and regulations as in other
States and Territories of the United States.
By previous act of Congress it was provided
that no ardent spirits should be introduced
into the 'sIndian country" except by the
authority, and under the control OF, the
Secretary of War. The Indian Territory
has heretofore been considered as Indian
country but the Commissioner holds that
the Government having purchased the In
terest of the Indian tribes in the Oklahoma
country, the latter can no longer be con-
sidered as Indian country" and that the
general law upon that subject does not now
apply to Oklahoma.
The effect Of this decision viii be to allow
wholesale and retail liquor dealers to pur-
chase special tax stamps in Oklahoma under
the same terms as in other sections of the.
country. Arrangements are being made to
have a force of deputy collectors and revenue
agents on hand to see that the laws are en-
forced and that the interests Of the Govern
ment are protected.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
rrRom A srArr ooRnrsrornrnr., !,


HARRISBURG, April Is The opposition
to the New York trip is not dead. 1t is not
even slumbering. On Mo nday evening it
will appear again in the shape of resolu-
tion designed to prevent what many men,
bers feel is very impOlitic excursion. Mr..
Lytle tried it to-day, but, resolutions not
being in order, it was objected to by Mr..
Brooks and others. The resolution was de-
signed to prevent the payment by the State
of the expenses of the trip, except such as
had already been incurred. Mr.. Lytle sat
down with a smile when the objections were
made, satisfied that he had at leastsucceeded
in making himself solid with his constitu-
ents.
A little scare was circulated among the
members to-day in the shape of a rumor
that the State Treasurer would advance no
money for the trip until an appropriation
the trip provides that the money shall be
appropriated in the general appropriation
bill, and as there is no likelihood that the
bill will pass the two Houses and be signed
by the Governor before the time for the trip
there was reason for the agitation.
As the Governor approved the resolution,
it is quite reasonable to suppose he will ap-
prove the appropriation. A hint from him
that he will do so will be sufficient to in
duce the State Treasurer to advance the
necessary cash, Just as soon as the Joint
Subcommittee of the Centennial Commit
tees Of the two Houses decide how much
they need.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
A DEAD BIRD FLIES.
The Adventure of a New York Sparrow In
L. RlHvxuvH

The Adventure of a New York Sparrow In
the Great Blizzard.
Birds suffered much during the great
blizzard of March, 1888, and Mr.. Lewis
Frazer has very readable article about 1t
in the last st. Nicholas. Here is one of the
incidents of the storm: Our neighbor's
housemaid, Annie, saw lying on spot from
which the snow had thawed, the wet, stiff
body of sparrow. There it lay on its back
in pool of water with eyes closed and legs
cramped to its body, hard, stark and cold.
".Poor thing" thought Annie, 81 must take
you in and show you to little Miss Ruby"
Suiting the action to the word, she picked
up the dead bird and carried it into the
kitchen. But it was wet and cold, and in
that condition was not fit for Miss Ruby's
fingers. "Sure it will dry if put it int
the oven for few minutes, and when Mary,
the nurse, comes down, it will be- nice and
warrum," said Annie to Jane, the cook.
So the bird was put in the oven of the,
range and the door left ajar. The cook and
the housemaid resumed their work, the one
preparing the luncheon, the other scrubbing
the floor. Some minutes passed thus when
suddenly and without any warning out
from the oven flew the apparently dead bird,
brought back to life by the warmth.
"The Saints defend us, " exclaimed Annie,
as the bird flew past her and dashed at the
window panes. "Quick, open the door,
cook, and good riddance to il When
dead bird flies it means no good luck to any
BODY l'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
READY FOR THE FRAY.
Six Hundred Pounds of Amendment Tickets
Forwarded for Allegheny.
rFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Six Hundred Pounds of Amendment Tickets
Forwarded for Allegheny.
rFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
HARRISBURG, April 1S.-Secretary Stone
sent the tickets for the Constitutional
amendment election to the Allegheny Coun-
ty Commissioners to-day. There were 124, :
200 tickets onseach side of each amendment
to be voted on, a total of 496, 800 tickets.
The ii skets were shipped in two big boxes,
and weighed 600 pounds.
Secretary Stone and Chief Clerk Gear
hardt. aided by Corporation Clerk Glenn,
have worked harder on the instructions to
County Commissioners and election officers,
and on the preparation of the ballots than
can be readily told. This work be-
gan before the the bill had become
a law, and is not ended. All sorts of
questions are being fired at the State De-
partment and the department is courteous
enough to answer them, though not re-
quired to do so by any law. The informa-
tion is given unoficially by Secretary Stone.
He has written the Allegheny County Com
missioneSs that it would be safer to send
new registry lists to each election district,
and he doesn't think the question of ballot
boxes is important except that separate COM
partments be provided for the ballots on
each amendment.
The State Department has been given no
extra help for the immensely increased
work, and the chief officers of the depart
ment have done it all.
Seven million tickets are to be sent out,
of which l, ABS, 900 will go to Philadelphia
Tickets have been sent to Adams, Allie
gheny, Armstrong and Beaver counties.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
A SHAD AS BIG AS A NAN.
The Wonderful Fish Caught by a Sober
TruthteIler From Chicago.

The Wonderful Fish Caught by a Sober
TruthteIler From Chicago.
Chicago nmes.l
Horace McVicker, being of age and sound
mind, duly deposes and says: ''Last sum-
mer went fishing near the beach down
East. 1 had been lolling in my boat all day
and moi bob of the line had cheered my
lonely hours. Late in the afternoon saw
the line culver and felt the boat careen. I
began toying with my line and very quick
ly discovered that had an immense found
er of some sort. coaxed him slowly to
the side of my boat, he raised himself
slowly out of the water as if he despised my
assistance. stood there looking at him
and he at me. He was noble shad, as large
as 1. While looking at him he gave a
lurch and sprang into the stern end of the
boat.
"Ashe did so I jumped forward to keep the
boat in proper position. His tail hung over
the stern Of the boat into the water. As
soon as he had fixed himself he began work.
ing his tail. The boat was headed for the
point from which 1 had embarked. This
living shad skulled me back to that place
as skillfully as could have done it my
self. Having arrived at the point named
1 jumped out and pulled the boat in and
turned 1t over. landed Mr.. Shad and tied
him to tree for the night. The next day
1 went down there with some friends and
we lifted him up to a limb and butchered
him the same as they butcher a hog in the
country. 1 had not been drinking"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
ENOCH ARDEN TURNS UP AGAIN.
This Time He IL a Maine Sea Captain,
Absent 20 Years.

This Time He 10 a Maine Sea Captain,
Absent 20 Years.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1sPAToH.I
LEWISTON, Me, April 1S.-TEenty-nine
years ago Aaron Harvey, a sea captain in
good circumstances, having wife and five
children, resided in Machias. In 1860 he
departed on a voyage, leaving his
family in poor circumstances. He was
not heard from again, but late in
1861 there came letter in strange hand,
saying that he was dead. In the course of
time the widow became poor, but she stuck
braveIy to her task of rearing the family,
and mourned for her dead husband. The chill
dren grew to manhood and womanhood, and
one of the daughters, Elizabeth, married
Mr.. Demmons, Kenduskeag, and later the
mother married Mr.. Champion, of Exeter.
Last Tuesday, on answering knock at
her door, Mrs. Demmons, of Kenduskeag,
was confronted by an aged man, who asked
if Mrs. Demmons lived there. He was an
swered in the affirmative, and then he said:
Elizabeth, don't you know me?
was a mere child when he disappeared.
she did not recognize him, but she invited
him in and later sent to Exeter for her
mother, who came and at once recognized
the man as her long-lost husband. He had
been shipwrecked and lost fortune which
he was bringing home. He remains at his
daughters, but has not yet seen husband
No
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
PUT 4 BOY ON THE CUT.
How They Train Their Children Down in
Boston These Days.

Providence Journal.1
A Boston gentleman whose management
of his 7-year-old son is amazing to the Cos
sips, returned home the other evening to be
met with the news that the boy had cut a
hole in the drawing-room sofa.
"Well, my son." the father said after
being informed by the lad that he had done
the damage under the pressure of an irresis-
tible desire, such as Is usually the plea
of children in similar circumstances, II am
very sorry that you should spoil my sofa.
1 have just paid $75 to have 1t re-
covered, and cannot afford to have that
done over again. The only thing I can see
is for you to sit on that cut place when any
body is here so as to cover it. know you
don't like company very well, but 1 know
mother would be ashamed to have callers
see that hole" as
The small boy was only to happy to get
off so easily. When, however, he had been
summoned to sit on that cut two or three
times, things wore a different aspect. He
heard the door-bell ring with apprehension,
and when he was called for to run to the
drawing-room he burst into wailing and
weeping so violent that his presence had to
be dispensed with.
''Now, my son, his father said to him,
81 did not make any fuss when you cut
my new sofa covering, and can't allow
you to make fuss about bearing the con-
sequences of what you did to please your
SELF"
The poor little wretch was reduced to a
condition of despair, pitiful to behold, when
his father said to him:
snow, Willis, 1 am going to make prop
osition to you. You may do just as you
please about it. promised you a soldiers
uniform at Christmas; now if you had rather
took that money and had the sofa mended,
will put enough with it to get the thing
done But if 1 do you will get no uniform
at Christmas.
. The lad choose to have the sofa mended,
and at Christmas he bore his disappoint-
ment like his fathers SON. He did have, it
is only fair to his father to add, a good deal
in the way of alleviations of one sort and
another.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
TROUBLE IN THE CAMP.
A Fight Over au Amendment to the General
Ravauua Rfll

Revenue Bill.
rFRoM STAFF coRREsPoNDENT.1
HARRISBURG, April 18.-In the Senate
to-day Mr.. McLain made strong fight for
the amendment DR.. Neff had inserted in the
general revenue bill The Senate Finance
Committee had stricken it out, but Mr.. Nc
Lain succeeded in having 1t restored by a
vote of IL to IA. 1t provides that mans
debts shall be subtracted from his credits
in assessing his money at interest. In the
form in which the amendment now is Sena-
tors MacFarland and Cooper insisted 1t
would open door for frauds on the part OF
individuals and for corporations also to
escape taxation. The amendment is as fol-
lows:
Provided that in all cases when money owing
by solvent debtors including upon agreements
and accounts is returned as herein required
the taxpayer, where the same are individuals
shall be entitled to deduct therefrom up to the
amount thereof, all debts in the shape OF
mortgages, all moneys owing, whether Dy
promissory note or penal or single bill bono OF
Judgment all articles of agreement and ac-
counts bearing interest which such taxpayer
may at that time actually owe. and the amount
of such debts shall be verified in the same
manner and with like penalties for false swear.
ing as provided for in regard to the return OF
the credits or moneys aforesaid.
Senator Brown, of York, thinks the proviso
can be made satisfactory to the opposition
by making it apply to debts of record, but
the opposition says no, and that the proviso,
is not stricken out, will kill the bill on final
passage, when more than IL votes in its
favor will be needed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
TO BE WET Or DRY.

Nexr Monday-The Well Organized
Campaign Of the Temperance
EIement-Kate Fields
Position on the
Movement.
BOSTON, April 1S.-April 22is designated
for the vote on the prohibition constitutional
amendment, and this usually staid and
dignifed Comm onwealth is stirred to its
very depths. 1t is estimated that not less than
500 speakers, including Governor Colquitt.
of Georgia, Senators Hoar and Blair, and
scores of notables, are on the prohibition
stump. It is more as the tread Of the mag
nifcent army over Massachusetts, than as the
desultory efforts Of an ordinary reform move
ment. The organization Of the Prohibi-
tionists is perfect. The programme which
is carried out by them with unfagging zeal
includes notably systematic and earnest
appeals to voters through the daily and
weekly press, as also series of meetings so
arranged as to cover every hamlet and
school district in the State.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars must
be required to carry out, in all its details,
this campaign organized by the Pro-
is no lack of funds at the headquar-
trail Committee. The old generation of an
ti-slaYery philanthropists in New England
may have passed away, but it is evident
that appeals for aid, in the name of "re-
form and humanity" still meet with gener-
GUS response in the Bay State.
But while these supreme efforts are thus
put forth by the advocates of prob ibition to
secure the adoption of a Constitutional
amendment, the opposition to so radical an
innovation are not idle. The voters of
Massachusetts,, as the campaign advances
and the public pulse is daily more
stirred, are. divided into two hostile
camps There is, perhaps, nearly
as much effort put forth by the opponents as
bysadvocates Of prohibition; but it is, to
some extent, on different line of action. To
secure the powerful aid of the press, which
is recognized as great influence in mold
ing public sentiment, has been the para
mount effort on both sides. In Boston and
several of the larger cities in the State
the advantage of possessing the support of
the daily papers has been on the side of
opponents of the amendment; while in the
smaller towns and the rural districts gen.
orally majority of the weekly papers are
arrayed in favor Of prohibition.
Generally speaking the pulpit and plat
form alike have been surrendered to the
advocates of the Constitutional amendment.
The first preacher Of Boston, however,
Phillips Brooks, is against it, and as for
the platform Miss Kate Field delivered an
address at fremont Temple last Friday
evening to large audience on '"The In
temperance, of Prohibition"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
DASHED 70 DEATH.
Fatal Accident Duribg the Removal of
Wires In New York.

Fatal Accident During the Removal of
Wires in New York.
NEW YORK, April 18.--The removal of
the electric wires and poles on Sixth ave-
nue., this morning, was attended by an un-
fortunate accident. Michael Farley, un-
married, age 3S, of Brooklyn, a ineman
employed by the Department of Public
Works, and Hugh Reilly, age 81, a married
man, with wife and three children. were
both dragged from a window of the third
story OF 3S7 Sixth avenue by rope attached
to falling pole, Farley being instantly
killed and Reilly seriously injured.
The men are l1nemen in the Bureau of
Encumbrances, and were engaged in staying
pole that was being cut down when the
accident occurred. When the pole was
chopped off at the bottom the base slid along
the sidewalk throwing the top out, pulling
both the men from the window. Earley's
body was picked up in terribly crushed
condition and was removed to the Thir-
tieth stree: police station. Reilly, was
taken to the New York Hospital. Both
bones of the left leg were found to be brok-
en- below the knee. Several of the smaller
bonesiof the right foot were also fractured
In addition to this there was severe con-
fusion of the back and a lacer-
ated scalp wound. The surgeon believes
there is possibility of the spine having
been fractured
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
HERALDRY In AMERICA.
Something About the Stars and Stripes and
Boss Tweed's Coat of Arms.


London Standard.l
The introduction of gunpowder, and the
consequent disuse of armor and its en-
blazonments. reduced heraldry to a means
of establishing nothing more than the right
of claimants to civil distinction and prece-
dence. As such, it does not seem to have
lost much of its old popularity. Repub-
licanism and an espousal of the theory Of
equality do not bar the way to love of this
relic of feudal age.
The Stars and Stripes of the United
States are simply slight Transformation of
the sargent, two bars gules, in chief three
mullets of the second" borne by the Wash
ington family. All the South American
Republics have their coats Of arms, and Of
late years the best tcustomers of the pedigree
searchers and arms devisers have been
British Radicals and Americans John
Adams, when Vice President of the United
States, was scoffed at by ''Pocahontas" Ran
doIph for painting his arms on the panels
of the "Viceregal carriage" /" and the fatter-
ers of the present Chief Magistrate have
tried to make out that he is descended from
a regicide ancestor, though, to his credit,
General Harrison denies any such connec-
ton. =, ~ - n
Time was when. heraldry was so little
understood in the New World, that on the
Governor of Jamaica,s carriage being sent
to New York coachmaker to be repaired,
his arms were extensively copied as a
pretty ornament for those of the good Re-
publicans, and the notorious "Boss" Tweed.
fancying that his name and the title Mar
guess of Tweeddale were not unlike, is re-
ported to have appropriated the arms of the
Hays, quarterings and all. The nouveaux
riches of the New World know better now,
though, perhaps, they are not much more
scrupulous than their cousins on this side
Of the Atlantic.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
TITANIC TEMPLES.
Marvellous Caves In the Mountains of India
Palaces of Solid Stone.

Marvellous Caves in the Mountains of India
Palaces of Solid Stone.
An English paper contains the following
account of some strange ancient works in
India, 1t is written by W. s. Csine, M. P,
who says:
1--WE have come to Roza to visit the
famous caves of Ellora, the finest and most
perfect of those marvellous temples which
have been cut out of the solid rock by the
ancient people of this land of wonders.
Along the foot of a range of wooded hills,
some 500 feet high Eabove,the plain, arc 30
temples, Buddhist, Hindoo and Jain. Their
date is obscure, but the newest are not less
than 300 years old. The smallest of these
alone would be a matter of wonder, but,
passing from one to another, we are dumb
with amazement on entering a series of
caves as big as churches, with huge images,
eight or ten feet high, all round the walls,
elephants, lions, tigers, al1gators, rams, an
telopes, swans and oxen, or symbolical rep
resentations of them, larger than life, ,friezes
Of figure subjects as big as that of the Par
thenon (though greatly inferior in execu-
tion), varied by intricate wall sculpture Of
all kinds, the whole carved out of hard
rock without single stone being intro
duced.
'The greatest of these Titanic excavations
is temple which cannot be called a cave at
all. The architect has quarried a huge
chunk of solid rock out of the hillside, leav-
ing mass in the center, standing out alone
from the lofty cliffs from which it has been
cut. He has then taken this block in hand,
followed it out into a vast chamber, left
great pinnacles and pagodas on the roof,
and carved it inside and out with reliefs il.
Illustrating the history of his gods. In shap-
ing the floor of the court in which his tenn
pie stands, he has left standing Jumps and
pinnacles of rock, which he has fashioned
into elephants, guards and sculptured tow
ers. In the cliff walls surrounding the.
temple, he has excavated eloistered CALLER
les. Every portion of the entire fabric is
mass of sculptured figures, beautifully fin
ished in all their details. The temple,
standing on its original site as excavated
out of the solid rock, is an absolute mono
lith. The whole structure (it is not build
ing) is 365 feet long, 1872 feet wide, and SO
feet high. 1t is as though fine English
cathedral had been carved and excaYated
out of the mountain in one single piece in
stead Of built stone upon stone"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
SUBSIDIES FOR STEAMSHIPS.
The Canadian Parliament Decides to Fur
nish Money to Ocean Lines.

The Canadian Parliament Decides to Fur
nish Money to Ocean Lines.
OTTAWA, April 1S.-In the House to-day
Minister Foster moved the ocean steamship
subsidy resolutions. Hon. Mr.. Laurier
wanted to see the contract between the Gov.
ernment and the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company with reference to this subsidy,
and what correspondence there was
on the subject. He moved in
amendment, "That consideration OF
granting a subsidy for a steamship service
between British Columbia and China and
Japan, be postponed until the Government
lays before the House all correspondence
with Great Britain on the subject, and also
all correspondence with the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company and all agree
ments entered into"
This was voted down. All the resolutions
were reported, and on each of them Mr..
Laurier moved similar amendments, which
were voted down.