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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19

IChicago News.l
In one particular at least the young EN-
peror of Germany seeks to emulate the ex
ample of the famous Caliph OF Bagdad. III
makes practice of providing around incog
nito, as If he was determined to find out by
means of his own eyes and ears, the will and
wants of his people. The military people
do not fancy this sort of thing, for they are
Tin Germany, of all countries) severe sticklers
at etiquette, and they regard 1t as shock.
ingly injra dig. that their sovereign should
snoop around barracks in the darkness OF
night in the disguise sometimes of patrol
man and sometimes of an officer.
Another practice of Williams is to call IN
formally upon his acquaintances in Berlin
at any hour of the day or evening he is
llkeiy to make his appearance in the house
1L friend, and, of course being the Kaiser,
ne mas TO be welcomed 1t was not fort
night ago that Herbert Bismark was enter.
tanning party Of friends in his bachelor
quarters when, all Of sudden, the Emperor
walked 10; A seat was put for his Majesty
at the table, and for an hour or SO the En-
peror chatted gayly with his guests: then.
apologizing graciously for his Intrusion, the
Kaiser bade the company good evening and
went his way.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19

the clearinghouse keeper receives his nav
ana the voyage begins. Once at sea the
sailors lind themselves without decent
clothes, and robbed in advance of their
wages and without any means of redress.
MT Lodges bill provides fine of $500 upon
any person not a regularly appointed ship
ping commissioner who shall engage or at
Tempt to engage places for seamen or per-
form directly or indirectly the duties of a
shipping commissioner. 1t is a righteous
measure in every bearing and deserves
prompt passage. When it becomes a law
there will be less running off of sailors from
vessels just arrived, to be drugged to insen-
sibility and driven on board outward bound
ships destined perhaps for the uttermost-
parts of the earth. There will be no occa-
sion for the indiscriminate use of Delaying
pins and reyolvers as weapons of offense in
the early stages OF a voyage, and there will
be more of chance of securing better men
to form crews of sea going vessels. In short
is long step forward in the direction of
placing the American merchant marine
where 1t once was, and is deserving of all
support
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19
Every Dollar Paid in goes
Towards the Develop
ment of the Property.

Bedford City is fourlshlng city OF over
1000 Inhabitants, and is on the Norfolk Il
Western Railroad, midway between Lynch
burg and Roanoke, the surrounding country be-
ing Extremely Rich in mineral and agricultural
resources. IL is the County Seat of Bedford
County, Is lighted by electricity. aud has an
electric street railway In progress OF construction
lbs Industries are general manufacturing. al
ready Of large volume, with certainty OF great
Increase
The RandoIPh-Mseon Academy, the
largest educational Institution In the South, cost
Ing 100000, has been erected upon the com
panys land, and there is also in progress Of build
Ing $3.50 hotel, and railroad station to cost
$4,000.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19
TUESDAY. The 18Th day Of August, A. D. 1890

to nominate candidates for the following officers:
Four senator's; county attorney; clerk of courts !
sheriff; county treasurer; register of deeds; one
county commissioner; and also TO choose county
committee for two years, and TO transact any
other business.that may properly come before the
convention.
The basis for representation will be one dele
gate for each city and town, and one additional
delegate for each seventy-Hve Republican votes
cast for Governor at the last State election, and
enc delegate for each fraction Of forty votes.
The delegates have been apportioned upon the
fnreRninp basis rs follows.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19
Mr.. Smith, m. p, Becomes A Peer.

WIZ SThtHy WE Tss 66Con6S - F66Fs
IN. Y. Press.1
How that satirical person, Mr.. William S.
Gilbert, must chuckle with delight at the
latest event in the career of the original of
his famous character of Sir Joseph Porter,
K. G. b. Bow logically illogical is it that
the man who
'Stuck close to his desk and never went to sea,
And so became ruler of the queens navee,"
should be made peer because he had failed
In the leadership of the House of Commons
But Mr.. Gilbert has told us that
"The house of peers made no pretence
To intellectual eminence
Or craftsmanship sublime"
and evidently 1t is just the place for Smith.
So we may expect another stanza to be add
ed to Sir JOseph's song, "When / Was a
Lad" in the next London revival of "Pina-
FORE" something, perhaps, like this:
81 became by the ministry's common consent
MY party's leader in Parliament,
And made such fZZle that Salisbury's fears
Removed me thence to the house of peers.
The Grand Old Man was too many for me-
But still am ruler of the queens nayee"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19
EN-. Mitchell says to the reporter OF

Gen. Mitchell says to the reporter Of the
Bangor Commercial: ST have not made any
charge whatever against the people of Port
land, and do not wish 1t to be understood
that make any charge or any complaint
That is true. The charges have been made
anonymously, by somebody who took good
care to keep himself concealed II he could
be unearthed we have not much doubt that
whose greatness the people Of Portland
failed to discover.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19


Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge has invented
new bill with a good deal Of force to IL.
1t is well known fact in sea board cities
that the United States shipping commission
ers are supplanted in great measure by the
proprietors of sailor boarding houses, in
their business of furnishing crews to vessels.
Captains who are not very scrupulous in re-
gard to their methods will contract with
boarding house keepers tor crews, promis-
ing as remuneration the advance wages paid
10 the sailors with oftentimes a bonus
brown In by the captain in consideration of
few hours saved, or an extra sober lot of
men secured. The clearinghouse sharks
do not generally seek to have their men so.
Der. On the contrary they generally fill them
up with whiskey and laudanum SO that the
effects do not wear off for days after the
voyage begins. The sailors are bundled
aboard like cattle, the mate counts heads,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19

The previous question rule has been on the
House code Of rules for great many years.
Republicans have made use of 1t to put an
end to debate. and so, quite as frequently,
have the Democrats. We believe both par
ties have acknowledged it to be necessary
rule, without which the House could do
nothing. Nobody has denounced it as q
gag law. A much milder measure is pro-
posed In the Senate, where 1t has come to be
necessity to somewhat limit debate II
legislation is to be enacted which the minority
are opposed to, and the Democrats all rise
up and shout in chorus that it is an out.
rageous attempt TO gag the minority.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19
FINANCIAL.
FINANCIAL.
THE SOUTH!
THE SOUTH.
Bedford City Land
andImprovementCO.
BEDFORD CITY, VIRGINIA.
BEDFORD CITY, VIRGINIA.

Chartered by special act OF the Gen.
eral Assembly OF Virginia. Authorized
Capital, 100000. Par Value, $IO.-
90. AMOUNT ISSUED. $500, 900. Non.
assessabIe.
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lotdl. lbZ
The committee win be In session at the Hall at
ten O'Clock In the forenoon the day of the con-
vention to receive the credentials of the delegates
and attend to such other business as may be nee
essary.
L. DUDLEY FREEMAN, Chairman.
CHARLES A. TRUE, Secretary.
Portland, July l6, 1890.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, july 10.

We DO not read anonymous letters and CONNIE
nications. The name and address of the writer
are in all cases indispensable, not necessarily for
publication but as a guarantee Of good faith,
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19
FOR GOVERNOR,
Edwin G. Burleigh.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES TO CONGRESS,
First Distrtct-THoMAs B. REED.
second Dtstgfct-NELSON DINGLEY, JR.
1hfrd DistTict-SETH l.. MILLIKEN.
Fourth District ARIES A. BOUTELLE.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION

The Republicans Of Cumberland County are
hereby requested to send delegates to County
Convention to be held at
Reception Hall, City Building, Portland,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19

The Bangor Commercial does not attempt
to deny that 1t is lightning to feel the force
of the popular disapproval of its license SEN
timents. 1t simply says: 1.-THE PRESS is evil
IDENTIFY getting frightened, and is resorting to
the Chinese style of warfare with which the
Lewiston Journal opened the campaign. I"
The PRESS is getting frightened. We fear
that popular indignation against the faction
of the Democracy that the Commercial rep.
resents will rise so high that the license issue
will be withdrawn. We are not alone in our
fear. The Boston Herald says:
The license party down in Maine isn't SC
bumptious as it was. 1t proposes to be content
with the resolution of the Democrats In favor Of
resubmitting the rum question to the people.
We regard this change of front which
seems impending as great misfortune for
the Democracy Hon. William 81. Clifford
called for a speedy termination Of the De-
mocracy's lingering death. and there is nc
reason why his desires should be thwarted
by Withdrawing the knife already touching
the iugular vein. If the Democracy wants
TO die let 1t die speedily.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19


In its last national convention the Repub-
lican party declared in favor of reducing the
surplus "by such revision of the tariff laws
as will tend to check imports of such articles
as are produced by our people, the produc-
ton Of which gives employment to our labor
and release from import duties those articles
of foreign production Except luxurles) the
like of which cannot be produced at home"
The Mckinley bill was constructed on the
basis of this resolution. 1t reduces the re-
ceipts from customs about $50, 900, 900, abeu,
$56,00O.ooO of which is due to the rA'ease of
at article of foreign production namely,
sugaE-which capnotbe produced at home.
or cannot be produced except in very limited
quantities. Ii, therefore, sugar is restored
to the dutiable list the Mckinley bill utterly
fails In one very important particular,
namely, the reduction of the surplus, to full
I'll the pledge of the Republican party.
Nearly all of the respectable papers of the
State have set the seal of their disapproval
upon the gigantic octopus that has fastened
Its grip on this nation-t1e Louisiana Lot
tery,-in their editorial columns. Yet the
lottery still fourishss and gathers in its har
vest Of dollars right here in Maine, and
many papers wonder why tits. They need
not seek far. Let them look to their own
news columns and they will see such items
as this:
A club Of twelve have played Louisiana, Little
Louisiana and the Mexican lotteries for several
months and have every drawing taken out more
than they put In. This month they get an APP
Proclamation prize as they came within "a Of
have struck was sac in tie Mexican lottery.
This is taken from one of the most influ
entail dailies In the State. So long as a
paper allows itself to advertise In one
column what it denounces editorially it
cannot seriously expect to crush out the evil
OF which 1t complains.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19
In reply to some remarks by the Bangor
Commercial, the chief license organ of the
State, the Bangor Wing says:

Commercial, the chief license organ of the
State, the Bangor Wing says:
When license law is enacted the Wing win
give IL the same fair treatment that It gives to
other laws on The statute books. VIII the Com
meTcal agree to accept the decision of the people
with equal good faith and deal fairly with the
prohibitory law in case a majority render a de-
cisiye verdict In its favor?
The Wings question suggests that some
good may come out Of the resubmission ques-
tion. The opponents of prohibition have
claimed for years that there was very little
public sentiment behind 1t, and some Of
them, notably the Bangor Commercial, have
made this an excuse for openly opposing the
enforcement Of the law. Now if the resub-
mission programme is overwhelmingly de-
feated. and 1t be thereby shown that there is
very strong public sentiment behind the
prohibitory law, this excuse will vanish,
and the Commercial will have to support the
enforcement of the law, or, If it continues to
oppose. to do so without any plausible ex-
cuse.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19
Annual Meeting.

FNtHE stockholders of the Atlantic y st. Law
4 renee Railroad Company are hereby notified
tnat lnef annual meeting, for the choice OF Dlrec-
OF such other business as may legally be present.
cd, VIII pc held at the office OF the Company, In
fortiano, 0 on the first Tuesday, the NTH day OF
August, 1870, at 10 O'clock In the forenoon.
II. r.. BARRETT, Clerk.
Portland, July IA, 1896. 1y16eodtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19
ALSO A BIG AND OPEN PURSE.
CGardinar Innrnal

1t is evident that Hon. Arthur Sewall Of
Bath has big heart as we'll as big brain
Rev. Mr.. Dixie of Bath has just completed
fifty years of lninistration there, and Mr.
Sewall has invited him to take tour around
the world at his expense, which the reverend
gentleman will do.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19

LOT NO l.-2S CENTS.
"
also Embroidery ace
neatly
" -
SKIRTS fve. hrume veryn atlym made.
CORSET COVERS perfect fitting;
al
all
isFANTS, CAMBRdG SLIPS ucs
LADIES, LAWN APRO' > with
INFANTS SLIPS handsomely
and
Dresses about cost Of material.
LOT NO. $50 GENTS.
rume with
Embroidery
Herring boneBr
N "
CHILDRENS WHITE CAMBRIA and SEERsUCKER DRESSES.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19
MISCELLANEOUS
Thursday, Friday & Saturday,
ONE MORE GREAT SALE.
500 DOZEN OF
MUSLIN UNDERWEAR,
CHILDREN'S DRESSES. INFANTS SLIPS, APRONS &c.

the dull
little
with stitch machines
he Muslin shape nnsh
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19
THE TARIFF IS A TAX.

THE TAHITI Is A TAI.
Philadelphia North Americana
From the fuss the Sheffield, Eng, people
are making about the Mckinley bill, we are
forced to acknowledge that the tariff is tax
-on Englishmen.
NO SUCH WORD AS FAIL IN HIS.
lSt. Croix Courier.l
With his first timber raft dismal failure
and his third almost wreck In Portland
harbor and hundreds of miles from its des.
tination, Mr.. James ID. Leary confidently
expresses the opinion that he has struck the
right means of conveying timber by water.
any such word as fail.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-19
------------------------
CURRENT COM NJ e. r.

THE GOVERNMENT MIGHT BE BETTER
Boston Glooe.l
Republican desperation has now got so far
that they propose to pass gerrymanderine
reappointment bill at the present session Of
Congress. While they are about it perhaps
they had better pass law that no Democia
shall be allowed to vote
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-30

They eat. drink and make merry, and there
the tale r. told. These belong to the
Common herd" But others seek for pur-
ity, nohlenees Of soul, Righteousness of life,
richnees al couseceated toll for the general
good, and development Of the soul heaven-
ward. These men are the choice spirits OF
the age and the times-true sons of God.
These arc the men who stand gazing up
into heaven, while the great multitudes are
chasing the deceitful baubles Of earthly
ambition. wealth or sensual pleasures.
An error guarded. Good as 1t 10 to gaze
heavenward. yet men may tarry too long in
an ecstatic, emotional religious experience,
instead of using these moments OF special
privilege for renewed conservation to fur.
ther toll. Pure religion has ito mounts of
TRANSPORTATION, and its Mount Olives
ascension joys; but true religion does
not build her tabernacles there.
True religion sends us on
missions Of mercy and beneticence; says 20
to homes of suffering and relieve the sick
and weary; to dens of vice and gilded pal
aces Of sin and say clean out these sink
holes; to caves of darkness and demands
We let in the light; to scenes of struggle
and saws solve those political. economical,
social and commercial problems along the
line of the golden rule and tho spirit of the
cross. It shows the spirit of the Good
than preiudioes and nobler than that of
Jewish priest and Levite. and better than
songs and psalms and ritualisms. Oh! for
revival Of practical religion! Religion
that loves to keep an eye on heaven, like a
ship captain whose magnet points to the
north star, but meanwhile guides his vessel
more carefully to the desired haven. Look
heavenward, but let that heavenward look
ing make ali the more practical your foot
steps on the earth.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-30
TRADE AND LABOR ASSEMBLY.
Enthusiastic Meeting Held Last Night
Resolutions Adopted.

Enthusiastic Meeting Held Last Might
Resolutions Adopted.
The Trades and Labor Assembly of Hell
ana had large and spirited meeting yes
terday, eight organ izations being repre-
sented by their delegatss, a large amount
of business done and the labor problem
pretty we'll ventilated. Two visiting dele
gates addressed the assembly, and expressed
their adm iration at the progress being
made by the Helena branch. Some inn
portant measures were initiated for the i'm
provement of waQe-earners' condition and
the solidifying Of unorganized labor. The
following preamble and resolutions were
adopted:
Whereas, It has come to our knowledge
that there is disposition on the part Of
some employers of salesmen to violate the
agreement to close at p. M; therefore, be
Resolved, That this assembly indorse the
Salesmen's union in their effort to maintain
the 6 O'Clock closing movement, aud that
employers who will break an agreement
and unnecessarily Cypress their employees
are unworthy the patronage of wage-earn-
ers.
Resolved, further. That the papers Of
Helena be requested to publish the same.
June %. 1880.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-30


In continuation Of his custom of giving
the art-loving public of Helena rare treats
in foreign paintings, Mr.. August Fack, of
the California Wine House, hung last
night the celebrated German painting by
Kuille, entitled "Venus and Tannhauser.' -
The canvass is the largest ever stretched in
Helena and represents in touching colors
the famous parting of Venus. the Queen of
Love- and Tannhauser, the minstrel bard
of the Hartz mountains. Heine, in his
poems, and Tieok, in his romances, have
made this legend SO famous that the love
and song of all days have fingered about
the famous couple. The painting is of the
free German school, full of poetic beauty
and fire. and has commanded in all parts of
the United States high praise. The form
and face of Venus is of the ideal type-no
gross nor sensual maid of Athens-and that
Of Tannhauser, a rugged troubador of the
woods and mountains. The subject has
been enhanced in beauty by treatment
from the point of view Of the legendary
school.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-30

Deformities and Diseases OF Women and
Children.
DR.. Stoddard, graduate of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons, of Edinburgh, Scotland,
and chief of the Liebig International Surgi-
cal Institute of San Francisco, will visit
Butte City, with offices at the Liebig World
Dispensary, 8 E. Broadway, corner Main
street, from June 9TH until July 5th-ten
DAYS only.
This is rare opportunity for people suf-
fering from deformities, malformations
and diseases that require an experienced
surgeons attention, to obtain the advice
and opinion of one of the most learned and
experienced specialists on the western con-
tinent right here in Butte City.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-30
Venus and Tannhauser.

HELENA, Mont, June 23.-My Dear Mr..
Fisk-The declination of your paper or
someone connected with it to publish (at
In which is contained the sentences:
1.-THE subject is taken from the legend of
the Germans-the love and passion of the
underworld queen and the minstrel Tam
hauser."
Also:
1.-THE story is the old ono of mans battle
between the flesh and art"
More than surprises me. wrote the crit
icsm in question, and in the choice of my
language CLOSELY followed the romantic and
famous poem of Heinrich Heine, both of
whom am sure have closer hold upon the
public heart than the Helena Herald. do
not question your right to reject any adver-
Using matter offered you, but do challenge
your consistency.
If Tieck and Heine and Schiller and
Goethe were wrong and impure in writing
that a woman's lips are red, her arms snow
white, and Tannhauser a victim of a pas.
sion that has as much potency in Helena as
it did in Babylon, then the art and literary
world which has sustained them for CEN
fury is wrong also, and the Helena Herald
right.
lQlS dA LOU "AlAAAA8 W UcAlcSCs XNO Ollo
will defend the pure in language and art
more than l, but cannot admit that your
Judgment is correct against that of CEN
fury of right-minded American beings, who
have gone their way firm in the belief that
to the pure all things are pure; and that
can't and hypocrisy have caused more sin in
this troublesome world than the glowing
language of the poet or the charms Of Venus
As to consistency, if the advertisement
sent you is surcharged with evil, would
suggest that the advertisements in your is
sue of Friday, June q, viz:
"For Lost and Failing Manhood
Grand Lottery of Juarez;"
"Denver State Lottery
"To Weak Men,
'Io the Unfortunate:''
ara infinitely more debasing, immoral and
harmful, making your consistency like
Baalam and his ass, thing for laughter
and scorn.
Yours Truly,
II. I. CLEVELAND.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-30
To Change July LIST.

10 Change July lst
We have sold our entire stock of groceries
and other goods to Bach, Cory l. Co., and
will give them possession on July LIST.
We take this opportunity to thank our
friends and customers for their many fav-
ors and liberal patronage in the past, and
earnestly bespeak for our Successors the
same good will and patronage in the future.
JoHN T. MURPHY d Co.
As We have purchased the business of John
T. Murphy l. Co., and will assume control
on July lat. we desire to state to the GUS
toners of the old Arm and to the public in
general, that We propose carrying the larg-
est, finest and best selected stock of gro
ceries, both fine and staple, to be found
west of Chicago. It will be our aim to
merit the good name enjoyed by the old
firm, and promise their customers and the
public in general that they shall have the
best of goods at the very lowest prices. In
conclusion we will state that on July LIST we
open the business in our name; that the re-
tail department will be under the direct
management of Mr.. Jas. Gourley, and that
customers will in no way be inconyenienced
by the tranfer.
BACH, Cory & Go.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-30
Notice,

10 property owners on Lyndale avenue:
A sidewalk has been ordered by the city
council ON the north side of Lyndale av
enue from Helena avenue to the engine
house. and on the south side from Helena
avenue TO Kirkendall's barn. II work does
not begin within five days will build said
sidewalks and charge the costs up TO the
property.
]. w. BaApy, Street Commissioners.