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The Portland daily press., 1890-05-16
THE BRETHREN AFRAID OF THE IIGHT
TRoSton Post

Dr. Booth, addressing the New York Pres
bytery, said: LET reporters report all thew
please, and we will be careful what we saw. .
But his brethren evidently did not want to
be careful, and so they voted to exclude re-
porters.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-12
Told by Edwin Booth.
rom the Ph,Lodelnhfa Inquirer.


Edwin Booth. when last in this city, told
a good story connected with his professional
visit to Germany. In Berlin he was billed
10 present Hamlet" and during the per-
formance. in the first interview with the
players, he was utterly surprised to see the
First Actor" come on the stage made up as
a very old man, with long, flowing white
beard, which reached to his waist, making
him look like the traditional Hebrew patri-
arch. Being unable to speak German, and
the performer having no knowledge what
ever of English, Mr.. Booth could not ascer-
tain the reason of this extraordinary make
up. He was unable, however, to master
his curiosity in regard to it, SO after the
representation, he procured an interpreter
and proceeded to interview the per-
former on the subject.
why on earth" asked Mr.. Booth, ''did
you make up So old for the First Actor2
In America he is always played as young
man, and | cannot understand why he
should be represented otherwise"
oh" replied the German Shakespeare
himself is my authority. for does he not
make Hamlet address the First Actor as
old friend?"
Mr. Booth smiled aud proceeded to ex-
plain that in English man might be called
an old friend and yet be young, but the
German utterly failed to get it through his
head. Mr.. Booth afterward ascertained
that not only in Berlin, but throughout
Germany, wnere Shakespeare's plays are
done more frequently than in either En-
gland or the United States, the First
Actor" had invariably been made up as
very aged because "Ha inlet" styled him old
friend.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-12
SHOES.

CAUTION W; l. pSSug nss s shSss . NJ.
has his name and price stamped on bOttoms
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-27
SECRETS OF AFRICA.
Significant silence About the Conduct of
British Companies There.

Significant silence About the Conduct of
British Companies There.
Illustrated Americana
A feature OF the British enterprise in East
Africa is the secrecy with which the opera
tions of the British Imperial East African
Company are conducted. In Whitaker"
which is supposed to give all official infor-
nation on all public matters. the words "No
information accessible" appear opposite the
entry referring to this corporation. As the
company conducts its operations under a
charter granted by the Queen, this secrecy
excites criticism, but little can be done. If
Parliament should make fuss about it the
only result would be that the Ministry
would have to resign, because the Sovereign
can do no wrong, and if any wrong is done
it is the fault of the Ministers.
In view of the perils to which millions of
the natives of Africa are subjected by the
advance of civilization, in the shape of the
British trader, it is though that sufficient
publicity ought to be given to the affairs of
the company to insure the protection of the
natives against outrages of the grossest
kind. 1t is recalled in connection with
this matter that in no case, except perhaps,
one, have the doings of any British colonial
company been sufficiently known to permit
adequate public discussion of them. Official
secrecy has stifled the moans of the native
possessors of the soil. We're little is known
of what is going on in the Congo State, ex-
cept to the officers of the company, the en-
employees of the company being bound over
to silence in penalties.
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READING FROM THE LIPS.
Facts In Regard to n Remarkable Power
That Can bo Acquired by the Deaf.

Facts In Regard TO n Remarkable Power
That Can bo Acquired by the Deaf.
Lip-reading is not quite new thing. The
idea is mentioned in Bede. About 1740 a
German and Frenchman corresponded in
Latin on the subject and came to the con-
clusion that the deaf could be taught to ex-
ercise the power of speech by watching the
movements OF the vocal organs Children
are much reader in learning than adults.
Some children can begin as early as 8 years
old; with others is too young.
At Ealing College. England. there was a
little fellow-a brother, believe, of Mr..
Cyril Flower, M. P.-born deaf, who was
remarkably quick. In short time he could
"lip-read" anybody. Another pupil, a
nephew of Lord Holland, learned much
more::slowly.
By close observation the pupils have to
initiate the movements of the teachers lips,
tongue and teeth in producing certain
sounds. Thus the deaf learn to speak by
seeing instead of by hearing. Many adults
who have become deaf learn lip-reading, of
course. in order to follow conversation by
the eye instead of by the ear. With them
the best method is to read from book and
let them repeat the words by having watched
the movements of the teachers vocal organs.
AS rule deaf-mutes learn lip-reading more
quickly than those who had become deaf,
because their power of observation is ex.
ceptionally well developed.
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through Russia in the air. It seemed like
riding on the upper deck of Mississippi
steamboat during the overflow. Away off
over the steppes we could see the patient
Moujik plowing in the fields.
These two-story cars would be splendid on
suburban trains out of Philadelphia, Pitts
burg. New York and Chicago, and would
be perpetual delight to the thousands who
crowd the Metropolitan Elevated Railway.
The second story should be low, with big
glass windows and we'll ventilated for
smokers, The fare in the top story OF these
cars in Europe is usually lower than be-
low, but in America the fare should be the
same. The upper story in these cars is
reached from outside steps, SO that the entire
train unloads at once By this improve
ment the elevated railway in New York
could double its capacity and please every
body.
Everybody smokes on a Russian train
both ladies and gentlemen. They smoke the
Laferme paparos, apaper cigarette. should
not say every one, for in one car, which
seemed to be occupied by fussy old maids
and spinsters, was this sign:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-27
NOT USED IN ENGLAND,
A Few American Words That Make the
Average Briton Stare.

Few American Words That Make the
Average Briton Stare.
Ralph Julian in Harper's Weekly.l
1 had an experience all my own in Lock
& Co.'s hat store, in st. James street. The
aged proprietor displays ancient helmets and
caps in his window, which is kept scrupu-
lously dusty. Noting this, said: "This
must be very old store, indeed"
"Store?" said the man. "Its no store at
all; it's shop, sir. 1 call a store place
for the sale of miscellaneous lot of goods;
but this is shop, sir. You ought to be
more careful in your use Of terms"
Ii that was rudeness-and I do not know
how great he considered his proyocation-it
was the only rudeness I experienced from
any shopkeeper. But learned from that
incident not to say store. And before left
London I had swelled my index expurga-
torius to the extent that seldom used the
following words: Guess; yes, sir; glass (for
tumbler); railroad; horse car; cents; fix;
store; or pad of paper. ''Block of paper"
they said, when at last got them to under
stand that I wanted a pad. "Guess" and
Fl" are pure Amerioanlsms, and are to be
used or not as you want to attract curious
attention or to avoid it; but the most diff
cult thing for Americans in England was to
avoid saying "sir" to stranger who ad-
dressed them or to an old gentleman. 'tYes,
sir, and "no, sill" over there are the YER
bal insignia OF a servant.
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doctor. An English druggist sells face
powder, cologne, soap, tooth brushes, patent
pills and the like; but his main business is
putting up prescriptions. He has no
clientele of men who drop in for a
little aromatic spirits of ammonia
after a night of dissipation, or for
acid phosphate after too much smoking, or
for tincture of iron and SO many grains of
quinine, or a glass of Calisaya for tonic, or
a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda to offset
too hearty q meal. All that which so
enriches our druggists is unknown in En-
gland. The Americans in London last sum-
mer found this out to their cost. One of
then told me that he had this queer expert
ence. He asked druggist for draught OF
iron and quinine.
"Oh, we carn't give you that without
prescription, you know" the man replied.
The American persisted, but the druggist
was firm.
"welI. can you give me an ounce of tinct-
ure of iron?"
"Yes, SIR"
"And two two-grain quinine pills?"
"Yes, SIR"
Having all these things the American
dropped q dozen drops of iron in the water,
and took that and the pellets down with a
gulp. The druggist looked on with keen
interest, and then said. very gravely:
"Do you know, call that very neat. It
is very neat, indeed"
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Mother Earth had again barred her bosom for
the sustenance of man and beast, and here
are little piles of broken stones, as though
nature in going West to build the mountains
had dropped a bit of her material. That
fringe of green on the left is the willows and
alders of the Arkansas river, which has cut
its channel 2,00e feet deep through the
mountains just above here. and that narrow
streak so gracefully curving around the base
ting canal, whose refreshing waters
make this ''desert blossom as
the rose" You are in the eastern edge of
the Montana civilization. The billow of
progress, striking the base of ''the Rockies,
is hurled backward from the west on to the
plains, and soon the two waves will meet
mountain ditch-artesian well-eastern rain
belt-and, with mans energy, the earth will
be subdued.
A RAINFALL STORY.
A Methodist preacher once crossing these
plains-further back-seeing them all green
with growing crops, exclaimed: II don't
understand 1t. Years ago no rain fell here;
now it is fairly seasonable."
"What % replied a rough old army Off
Ger, "you preacher and don't understand
thst?"
"No, sir; can you tell me ?" asked the
preacher.
"Yes, sir. God Almighty sends it to them
just as they need it tp'
Il sat rebuked," said tine minister to me,
Sin the presence of this rough mans trust"
On you speed. The engine smoke curls
lower, now, in the light air; the wagon trails
converge; the Pacifc's tracks steal in
among and checker the iron belts of the
other roads and you are in Pueblo, 'the
Pittsburg of the West" all hazy with the
smoke of manufacture and buzzing with the
hum of industry. Hence you may go any
where. Ramifying the mountains like the
nerves of q giant leaf, the Denver and Rio
Grande will take you anywhere from Den
yer to Salt Lake and spread you out under
the green spruces beside the rushing waters
in sight of the eternal SHOWS and among the
everlasting hills
JAMES NEWTON BAsKFTT.
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turtle, but clear golden fluid with gems of
crimson and green; and it was handed round
in silver dishes. No one thought Of thick
soup on this hot June night.
As soon as the hum of conversation be-
came general, the tall and handsome young
widow turned to her compsnion-who was
only a year or two her junior, by the way
and with her demure and mischievous eyes
grown full of meaning, she said:
''Vin, what has happened to you to-day?"
"What do you mean, aunt?" he an
swered, with some surprise.
"Something has happened to you to-day"
she went on, confidently. "You can't hood
wink me. Why have you been so radiant,
so complaisant, this afternoon-why are you
here, for example-when you haven't shown
ND at this dinner-table for weeks past2"
"And YOU are going away tomorrow,
auntp' he exclaimed.
s'No use, Vim. All of sudden you want
to be magnapimous to the whole human
race; your amiability becomes almost bur-
densome; your eyes are full of pride and
joy; aud you think you can hide the trans
formation from me! Well, then, / will tell
you, since you won't tell me; to-day you
were introduced to her,"
H6 was startled, and no wonder. Had
IL,
witnessed that interview in Hyde Park?
Mrs. Ellison's shrewd, quick eyes noticed
his alarm and laughed.
"The story is as clear as MONDAY" she
continued, in the same undertone. "You
come home every night between and 10.
Why? Because she is an actress, playing
in the first piece only; and of course the
theater loses its attraction for you the mo-
ment she has left. Now, my dear Vim, that
is not the kind of thing for you at all.
You'd better stop it, even although you
have experienced the wild joy of being in
troduced to her. What do you know about
her? You have been investing her with all
the charming qualities OF her stage hero
ines. You haven't learned yet that she isa
little slatternly in her dress; that her tastes
in eating and drinking are rather coarse;
that her tastes in literature and art aren't
any-worse still, that she is already pro-
vided with a husband, q lounger about
Strand public houses, only too ready to ac-
cept your patronage and the price OF o
glass OF gin"
He was immensely relieved.
"Oh, you're all wrong, auntl' he said,
cheerfully. 81 haven't been inside thea
ter for six monthsP'
"You haven't?" she said, glancing at him
with a kind of amused Suspicion. "You are
really playing the good boy with Parlia-
mentary reports and blue books? A very
admirable diligence. Other young men
would be strolling in the park in this hot
weather. And then all Of q sudden she
asked: what subject were you studying to-
day. Vin?"
''Thompson's Distribution of Wealth, /" he
made answer, with equal promptitude.
ooh. What does be say?"
You don't want to know auntP'
Yes, I do; I'm used to hearing all sorts
OF theories at this table-though I seldom
see them put In practice"
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manage everything; and to keep on
managing it, 1 suppose, or else things
would revert to their former condition.
That's where the trouble comes in, of course.
The moment you allow anything like free
dom of contract, how can you prevent the
former condition of affairs coming into eK-
istence again? You know, after all, aunt,
there is generally reason for the institu4
tions and social arrangements Of any couD4
try they don't spring out of nothing; they
grow, and their growth is a necessity"
"Vincent Harris" said the young widow,
solemnly, "I perceive the seeds of rabid
Toryism beginning to sprout in your young
mind. Wouldn't your father say that the
reason for the monstrous condition of affairs
now existing-I don't consider them mon~
strous not L; I'm pretty we'll content,
thank you-but wouldn't he say that the
reason was simply the ignorance of the
people who produce and the inscriptions
greed of the other people who take the lions
share of the profits? OF course he weuld;
and so he wants to educate the producer
and protect him by the State /; and see that
he isn't swindled. Go to /; thou art Didy-
mus, and an unbeliever; 1 suspect Lord
Musselburgh has been corrupting you.
Tell me" she said, irrelevantly, who ID
the woman with the black curls-I did not
catch her name when she was introduced to
me"
He was delighted that she showed no sign
of returning to that awkward topic.
Goodness gracious me, aunt" said he,
glancing in the direction indicated, where
sat an elderly lady, thin and gaunt and pale,
with large lustrous black eyes, and black
hair done up in the fashion of q generation
ago, "do you mean to say you don't know
Madame Mikuecsek?"
"Who is Madame-What-is-it?"
"You never even heard Of herP' he ex-
claimed, in affected astonishment. MADE
anne Mikuskek-the dIseoverer of the Mys4
terry of the East-the prophecies of the new
religion-who has her followers and dis
ciples all over the world-from Syria to the
Himalayns-from New York to Sacra-
mento. Really, aunt, you surprise me; you
will be saving next you never heard of b."
What is Bo-or who is he?" she deS
manded, impatiently.
"Bo," he replied, az if he were too puE.
zled by her appalling ignorance to be able
to explain, "wny, Bo-Bo is the equivalent
of the Chinese Ia. 1t is the principle Of
life-it is the beginning and the end of all
things-it is the condition of the soul-and
yet not quite the condition of the soul, for
the soul can live outside Bo until the
miracle of initiation happens. Then the
soul is received into Bo, and finds that the
present is non-existent, and that only the
past and the future exist, the future being
really the past, when once the soul has
entered Bo-"
''VIn, believe you are making fool Of
me-" the pretty Mrs. Ellison said, severely.
''Oh, assure you, aunt" he said, with
eyes innocent of guile, sit is the great dis
covery of the age-the great discovery Of
all time-the sacred-thei nefable. When
you enter into Bo you lose your individual.
ftv--or rather vou1neveF had anv individu.
slity-for Individuality waa confusion ot
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Well, he on his side was glad enough to
get away from that other and dangerous
topic; and whether or not he believed in her
innocent desire for knowledge, he began to
discourse on the possibility of universal hu-
man happiness being reached by volun-
tary equality in the distribution of the pro-
duets Of labor.
voluntary, do you see, sunt?-that is
the very essence of the scheme" he rambled
on, while she appeared to be listening
gravely. Thompson will have nothing to
do with force; he himself points out that if
you once bring in force to redress the inc
qualities of wealth, you leave it open for
every succeeding majority to employ the
same means, so that industry would be ami
hilated; the capitalists would not lend, the
workers would not work. No, it is all to be
done by mutual consent. Those who have
wealth at present are not to be disturbed;
what they have amassed IS but trife COM
pared with what the millions can produce;
and it is this product of universal co-opera-
tion that is to constitute the real wealth OF
the world. Well suppose it is only a
dream" he proceeded. son the other hand,
take my fathers way of locking at il. He
is all for State interference; the State
is to appropriate everything and
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now rolling our fne-cut chewing tobacco
into cigarettes. They learned this from the
Americans who came over with Winans to
build the Nikoli Railroad, named after the
old Gar Nicholas, who, after building the
road, died broken-hearted, killed by the dis
asters of the Crimean War.
One of the great luxuries of Paris and
London are the two-story omnibuses. Eu-
rope has gotten beyond street cars and paved
streets. London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin
stone pavement. Asphaltum has taken its
place. The asphaltum streets are so smooth
that rails are not needed, and in place of
street cars immense omnibuses, each drawn
by three big stations, run in all directions.
The asphaltum streets are as smooth as glass,
they are noiseless, cost less than stone and
last as we'll. New York is wise in covering
her stone pavement with asphalt. 1t is only
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Leadville can ever boast. From a sanitary
standpoint, / am worth millions" COM
pared with what once was, but financially
Colorado railroads and hotels have the
profits. Ahl 1 chuckle, though, when ]
think what poor medicine of it the doctors
and druggists have. Not that I abhor the
professionalism from it; but it relieves the
monotony wonderfully to buy something be-
side pills and prescriptions, and fresh air
and rugged scenery form pleasant varia-
ton TO a menu of cod liver oil and cough
syrup.
The truly initial point of western trip,
especially from the South, is Kansas City,
whose Union depot you find thronged with
q crowd which, for restlessness, size and gen.
eraI incongruity, few other points can
equal. Consumptive and capitalist, tramp
ana tourist, pauper and proprietor, drum
mers, dea0beats, emigrants and everything
comprised within the two great classes of
wealth-hunters and health-hunters, jog and
jam each other with bags and baskets In the
impatience OF delay.
CIVILIZATION CREEPS ALONG THE RAILS.
A dozen years ago only one route lay
from here TO Denver. Now by half dozen
different roads, all making about the same
time, the trip may be accomplished. Civil
ization has crept out along the iron rails much
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DIPHTHERIA AMONG CATS,
A Disease Very Like the Human Form and
Thought to be Contagious.
Illustrated News of the WorId1

A Disease Very Like the Human Form nud
Thought TO be Conta agious.
Illustrated News of the World.1
Lovers of cats are requested Gin polite
way) by hygienio authorities to keep a
strict lookout, in the case of their pets, for
symptoms of sfeline disease which is be-
lieved to possess greater likeness to human
diphtheria than is quite agreeable to con-
slider or dwell upon. The human ailment
and the cat trouble have occurred coinci-
IDENTIFY or subsequently, sometimes the dIph-
iberia preceding the feline disease, and vice
versa. The subject is at present under in
vestigation by DR.. Klein, working in the
interest of the London Government Board,
and all its points have not, of course, been
yet satisfactorily determined.
Enough, however, has been proved to
teach us that on the first appearance of sick
ness in cats they should be carefully watched
and isolated from contact with their house.
holds. Children especially are given to
fondle and nurse cats, and in their case the
warning just given applies with especial
force. I often think we are not so careful
as we should be in the matter of the health
of our domestic animals, and the latest in
formation about the cat may serve to place
us on our guard against what, at least, may
be regarded as possible source Of disease.
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cactus straggle under your window, and
patches of moss-iike buffalo grass and FROST
like alkali blotch the ashy sand. A jack
rabbit fees wildly away at the TRAINS ap-
proach, and close looking may discover the
skulking coyote, or the querrulous prairie
dog scolding from his mound. A few ante
lope still inhabit this region, but you are
fortunate if you see them. The buffalo has
gone forever, and left these broad pastures
to his cousin, the OK, who grazes there in
herds almost as vast as those primeval. But
hislwallow is there yet, distinct and fire.
Quent, and nothing but the plow, the great
leveler, will ever blot them out.
There Is something very grand, but still
something very sad, in the march OF our
civilization. In the great struggle and the
survival Of the fttest" the Indian, the
buffalo, the antelope, the prairie dog,
badger, rattlesnake, and burrowing owl-all
must go, and have nearly gone. Even the
blue stem grass is subduing the gramma,
and the plowman is crowding the cowboy.
We can spare the latter, along with the In
dian and the serpent, but it is much to be
regretted that our Government has not re-
served and protected a bit of our native
plains that those coming after us might see
a sample of these vast steppes in their origi-
nal beauty. I have crossed the plains on
all the routes; only on this line and for
very short distance can one now hope, from
a car window, to see anything like what
was once known as the Great American
Desert.
TOWNS DwINDLED TO A NAME.
And now the towns, which everywhere
have partaken of the nature of the country,
still look city-like and prosperous on the
map, but in fact have dwindled to a name,
L. do
ally associated with a windmill or telegraph
office. 1t is the "desert place." in the Bible
sense, indeed. But soon the stations grow
more frequent and little larger; wagon
trails stripe the green plains with brown
lines, and home-like houses again dot the
arabic slopes. There buttes, green and
mammillary, scallop the horizon as though