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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-19
A Novel ProIect.

forms shown in Fig 2. The letters in the
two ures correspond.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-19
Leading Republican ournaI Of Maine
Winthrop Budget.1

LWHUnIUp DUUBtU.J
We have for long time considered the
Portland Press one of the best of the Maine
papers, and in some respects the best of them
all-personally tits our favorite newspaper,
with the exception possibly of the Boston
Herald. 1t is, beyond question, the leading
account alone entitled to the support of all
of that way of thinking. Although positive
in its Republicanism, it is as little tainted
with partisan prejudice as any paper in
either party we are acquainted with. AS a
great metropolitan dailies, and covers its own
field quite as as we'll as they do. To all of our
readers who want a heightened, conservative
daily, we cordially commend the Press, and
guarantee that it will fill the bill every time
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-19

The business experience of the
UNION MUTUALLIFE INSUR-
ANCE COMPANY has covered a
period OF forty years, during which
time 1t has written policies aggre-
eating nearly Two Hundred Mil
lion Dollars upon the lives OF One
Hundred Thousand persons.
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ITO LET-To gentlemen only; two separate
Il furnished rooms opposite the Park contain
Ing closets. Price 1875 and S1.b0 per week
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GROCERY BUSINESS FOR SALE.

III AFlNG decided to go 10 Portland wish to
- sell my Grocery Business here in Farming
ton; nave one OF the best stores in Maine; best
locaton IN town; large and long established trade
ana nne paying business. INQUIRE of Messrs
TWllCHELL, CHAMPLIN & Co, Portland. or
JAMES III. WAUGH, Proprietor,
ap16 az
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EnterprisIng and Able.

We have frequently of late had to COM
mend the enterprise and ability shown by
the Portland Press, and it is always pleas
ant to have occasion to speak in such terms
of Maine newspaper. We have no doubt
that In the new year, and in the coming
years our Portland contemporary will con-
tinue to press on to further victories, en-
HANGING alike in reputation and circulation.
The compliments of the season to you,
friends of the PRESS
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In Every Sense Well Equipped.

The Portland Daily PRESS is in every
sense a we'll equipped newspaper. In the
mechanical department there is every facil-
ity for the expeditions printing of the vari-
GUS editions, and the editorial force COM
prises some Of the brightest newspaper
writers in Maine. The PRESS reaches all
parts of western and central Maine several
hours before any of the Boston papers, and
gives all the news that those papers have,
besides the local and State news,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-19
one OF the Best Newspapers In New
England.
Ellsworth Americana

The Portland PRESS is one of the best
newspapers in New England. It is inde-
pendent In the expression of its views,
prompt in giving the news of the day and is
a Republican organ, which though fair in
the expression of political matters, makes no
uncertain sound. One is never at loss to
tell which side it is on. To the citizens of
the coast towns its shipping list alone, which
is very full, is worth great deal more than
the price of subscription.
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mIsCELLANEOps,

HOUSE " EEPEKs in want of Hair Mat
III tresseS done over, also furniture upholsteI
ed and carpets made over at their residences, no
tells or families. No objection out city, Refer
ences gwen. Leave order or call Al Brown street
MRS. j. FOLLY. III
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A Special Excursion

Train of Pullman cars will leave Boston from the
Old Colony R. R. station Saturday, April 26, at 6
p. M, for Bluffton via Washington and the Shen-
andoah Vallav to attend the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-19
Curious Process Of Cutting an Orange
skin.
ria Nature.1

skin.
LA Nature.l
We illustrate in Fig. 2 number Of curious
shapes into which the skin Of an orange can
be carved after particular tracing Gig. y
and then be spread out in its entirety. with
out break.
The process Is as follows:
in the skin as possible. 1t should not be
divided In the center into too large number
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-19
Takes Rank With the Leaders.

In the Portland Daily PRESS the Republi.
cans of Cumberland County have an able
exponent If their political preferences, as
well as most valuable dispenser of the
tive and readable manner, and that 1t is ap-
preciated is fully demonstrated in its large
and growing circulation. Possessed of all
the facilities necessary to first-class news
paper establis hment, the PRESS takes rank
with the leading daiieS of the State, and
Justly enjoys lucrative natrnnaga
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LOST AND FOUND.
MALE HELP.

WANTED-Aj job printer; a man who under
w stands running job presses is desired ;
references required. Apply at As Exchange ST.
SMITH & SALE, i5.I
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A Live City Paper.
ruHuI.E~ Tr-rza

The Portland PRESS is the leading Re-
publican paper in Maine. If any Of our:Re-
publican readers are in want of live city
Daily, they need not go out of the State for
it. The PRESS is edited and managed with
marked ability and is having due share of
influence in the hard worked field of Journal
ism, field in which only the fittest survive.
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Remember that no other paper in Maine
gives so much at so low price.
Remember that the PRESS is published in
the morning and is distributed by the earliest
trains.
Remember it is six full hours ahead of the
Boston papers.
Remember that it covers the same news
field that is covered by Boston papers, while
it is besides Maine paper interested in
Names prosperity.
Remember that its rates are as low as
those of any metropolitan paper.
Six Dollars year;
or Three Dollars for six months;
Or Fifty Cents month,
when paid in advance.
Address
PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO.,
81 EXCHANGE ST.,
Portland, Me.
The Maine State Press is great weekly
paper for this State; twelve pages every
week; unexcelled for local, county, State and
general news. Its Marine List is sought
along the whole coast; its Markets are the
reliance of the farmer and merchant
1.-TWO Dollars year in advance.
Address
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co.
81. EXCHANGE ST.,
Portland, Me.
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BEN EpIcT ARNoLp's HOUSE.

PORTLAND PUBLISHING 90,
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The Portland PRESS is large newspaper
of sterling Republican principles, progress
i've, newsy ana able. 1t has been foremost
the past few months in agitating secret bal
lot reform, and advocating the adoption of
the system in Maine. To those desiring
live Republican paper the. PRESS can be
safely recommended.
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FOR SALE

EOR SALE : The ferry boats CLINTON,
HAMILTON and PACIFIC, now running on
Brooklyn, N. Y, ferries
Description of boat Pacific.
Wood, built 1869.
Length 16l feet; over all 172 feet.
Breadth 1928 feet; over all 81 feet.
Depth of hold 1876 feet
Gross tonnage $50 77-100 tons.
Draft-loaded SO feet light 6 feet.
Engine condensIng beam.
Horse power 800; speed 10 miles.
Diameter of cylinder 40 inches.
Length of stroke 10 feet.
Boiler drop fiue
Consumption of fuel, "a hours, tons.
Bunker capacity TONS
Net tonnage 481 40-100 tons.
The other two boats are nearly the same dimen-
sions. Apply to Superintendent
UNION FERRY CO.,
ap17dIw Fulton Ferry BROOKLYN N Y
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
The Progressive Conversation Party.

The progressive conversation party
is having quite run. It's popularity
is largely due to the fact that any
number may be invited, although rot
more than twenty can be easily man
aged. Say you have that number of
invited guests, then the chairs, two in
number, must be arranged behind each
other in continuous line A wide
ribbon yolles them together, different
shade being used for each pair. In
sending out the invitation the topics
for the evening are included. A blank
card is tied with a narrow ribbon to
the connecting ribbons on the chairs.
Tally cards as in progressive euchre,
hold tiny ribbon which matches the
card upon the chair. These are placed
upon two plates-one for the ladies
and the other for the gentlemen. OF
course the topics decided upon for each
set ii chairs are entirely foreign to
each other. When all OF the guests
have drawn a card they take their
seats according to the color designated
by the tally card, the ladies sitting on
the left and the gentlemen on the
right Of the line The hostess taps q
bel when the buzz of conversation be-
gins The judges chosen pass down
the line and criticise. Ten minutes
having expired the best conversational
Isl receives upon her tally card gold
star and the yanqnished silver star.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
Writing a Famous pocm,

-, The poem Of "Curfew Must Not Ring
Tonight" was suggested to me by the
reading OF story called "Love and
Loyalty, i'll April, 1867. I was then a
plain, country school girl, not vet seven
teen, residing with my parents at Litch-
field, Mich, and under the pretext of
working out mathematical problems.
with my arithmetic before me, I wrote
the poem roughly on my slate. l was
1ofced TO carry on my literary work
under these difficulties because of the
OPINION OF my parents that my time
could be better employed than in idle
dreams and useless rhymes" [ wrote
the first copy on my slate, between four
and SIX o'clock in the afternoon. hut
much time has since been spent in cor
rlectlng and revising it. I had no
thought that would ever be able to
write ", anything worthy OF public notice.
The poem was first published in the
Detroit Commercial AdUertiser in the
fall OF 1870. The editor upon receipt
OF my manuscript, at once wrote me a
lengthy letter of congratulation aud
praise in which he predicted the popu-
larity for the verses which thew have
since enjoyed. I had no literary friends
not even literary acquaintance at that
time, and did not know the SIMPLEST ra.
quirements for preparing my manu-
script for publication. The poem
seemed at once to attract public at
tention. 1t raised me from O shv
obscure country girl into public notice
ana brings to my side yearly hosts of
new and delightful friends. Wherever
go, my friends are there before mo
ana the poem-which I gave to the
punllc with no right reserved"-while
~ mas made fortune for others and
cropped golden coins in other pockets.
mas reserved for its author wide circle
OF admlrlng friends The first and only
remuneration ever received for the
poem was three years ago when the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
Our Industrial Life.
MUNCIE, l

Said to my banker friend: Estate
to me your notion of the greatest evil
in our industrial life"
II think it is the excessive profit
everybody in trade expects to have. It
is above and outside of all legislative
assistance. We have had until recent
ly laws limiting the rate of interest,
and declaring anything above per
cent. or 6 per cent. to be usury; but
so per cent. is the law of the trades
man in dealing with his customer.
You see it in beef, which costs less
than four cents pound and is sold to
the ultimate consumer at from sixteen.
to twenty-five. ~ !.
"1Lo e1,aa1,aet thing -. the Wnole
market is oil, and that is the subject
of the most interference, and in reality
the DISCLAIMERS against the oil interest
are those who are not satisfied to see
it cheap. In order to make oil cheap
enough for the whole world to use it,
those who control it have put down
apparatus, such as pipes and steam
engines, getting rid even of the rail-
road tax upon the product. They leave
out of their purchase system certain
wells the owners of which demand to
be bought up, and if an excessive price
was paid for superhuous wells of
course the tax would have to be put
upon the production.
"Now, there is no article which
America produces which stands the
test of prices in all countries like
American oil. 1t goes to Egypt, to the
Barbary States to the Asiatic States,
to poor countries like Denmark and
Norway. where the American flag is
the familiar sign for burning oil.
Those people do not exclaim against
the price. And when you can buy the
highest refined oil for S. barrel it is
the cheapest burning fluid in the world
A barrel will almost supply farm
er's family for one year, and it costs
So; whereas your gas bills in almost
any house in city will be S. month.
Il do not take up this topic" said
the gentlman, except that it crosses
my mind If the American people
knew. however, how mucn they have to
pay Intermediates, they would see how
this rich. abundant country continues
to be the most expensive i'll the world. /"
Cath
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
ouarrels OF Married Folk.

No third person can successfully ar
bitrate between man and wife-not
even father-in-law. If you, Mrs.
Pepper, and you, Mr.. Pepper, must
disagree and must give vent to speech
on the subject, or die, then die mum,
OF fight it out between yourselves in
the secrecy OF your own chambers.
Much domestic unhappiness comes
from full rein being given to these I'M
bridled tongues. Do not, my dear
Woman, under any circumstances, COM
pare your husband to other men to his
disadvantage. Don't say, ooh, I do
wish my husband was like yours, Mrs.
b." That is a coid-blooded sort of
cruelty that few men can forgive. 1
have myself heard men say, If I had
wife like you, Mr.. So-and-so, I'd be
glad" 1t won't do to say such things.
If Your wife loves you it will be worse
than blow to her to hear you say such
brutal things. And most of these
peppery wives and acrid husbands do
really and truly love each other, after
all. II one OF the other of them should
be taken away, if the death angel
seems to hover near for moment,
there is such tenderness and gentle
ness and devotion that it is pity that
only sickness and suffering can draw
them out.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

editor of The Brooh1y,s l1oon-.-
produced the poem in fac-sim nI1ehe re
graph form, which I had n; ,nl,e auto
With delicate sense OF justice H. Inn
me most complimentary cheelz f. f., en- 9,
simple privilege of reprodncs;a lur tAt
was quite surprise to me, bnt non
less pleasing. That editor is MON uvne TN
present editor of The Ladies NV ~ 'h'
Josnaa'.-Rose Hartyich y5or,no rom !!
Ladies' Home .Io1la.,a.l ~. pe, n
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

A STRANGE and interesting class Of
people live in the mountain regions of
Eastern Galicia aud Bukowina. and in
the border mountains of Hungary. They
are called Huzuls, and are a mixture
of two tribes which were driven out of
Slavonia and Mongolia six hundred
years ago. arhey are at present about
thirty thousand in number, and live in
small settlements, seldom more than six
or seven families in a settlement.
These settlements are called "staros,
ties, the "starost," or governor, being
always the Oldest son Of the founder OF
the settlement, and his direct descend
ants. This governor has ultimate con-
troll Of the people, but he possesses nc
more land or focks than any other man
in the starosty, as the fields and sheep
which form the wealth, and are the
pride Of the Huzuls. are the common
property Of the settlement. Although
they have regular homes, they make
very little use of them as abiding places.
As soon as the first signs Of spring,
which they call the green time" APP.
pear they are off, and for seven months
wander through the mountains as hunt
ers or herdsmen, and only the "black
time" of winter brings them back to the
settlement. AS to their religious belief
obey are hcecivl, e.il1 are allied With All
sorts of strange superstitions.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
spires, and, NOR

over, write out your thoughts about it.
lust as I did mine some time ago, liz
the following lines:
TO MAURICE THOMPSON.
I've read all your ''Songs of Fairweather,''
I've peered in the depths Of your streams.
Your words and your thoughts flow to-
gether,
Like the heart and its love in sweet
dreams.
'Tis a fresh CHEEKY ode to the summer,
A note in the worlds joyous song,
A happy, thrice welcome new conner
To gladden. life's care-weary throng.
While sleeping my soul in its nectar,
Through memory's wildwood away,
/ wandered adown to sylvan
Lake. clear as the skies arc in May.
Where wood birds hold yearly reunions,
And graceful ferns sway in the air;
Where never a sly, beautiful arrow
Disturbs the communion there.
Oh, sweet were the unwritten measures
In childhood heard on the breeze,
AS played, full of JOY, by its waters.
In the shade of the old sugar trees.
But if you should carry with you q
copy of Charles Kingsley's poems (and
you will if you have one), do not read
the "Bad Squire" No call to arms
was ever so vigorous and soul-stirring.
Like bolt from heaven, through cold,
dark clouds. it burns through crusts
of ice and snow down deep into the hui
man heart, until we hate, oh! how
righteously we hate, the sin of merry
England" that wrung from the soul
of her sweetest singer such wall of
woe.
Perhaps it was the "Bad Squire
that Ruskin beheld when he wrote:
The violets light the lonely hill,
The fruitful burrows load the lea,
Mans heart alone is sterile still
For lack Of lowly charlie.
He walks a weary vale within,
No lamp of love in heart hath he;
His steps are death, his thoughts are sin,
For lack of gentle charitie.
If you are going to spend the hours
alone, swinging in an easy hammock,
take Shelley with you, and with
"Queen Nab" yield yourself to the
fascinating influence that closes about
you as the south wind does about the
opening flower, and you will feel a
,hindling of the soul, you will reach
out and soar aloft until you reach q
height serene above the clouds of
ennui and loneliness.
With the next rustic of Locust
Leaves you will hear something of an
Ohio poet. j. V. II. KooNs.
IND
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

A GLANCE at the military strength of
the Argentine republic in view of the
disturbances in Buenos Ayres will
prove interesting. The army consists of
$500 men: well drilled and equipped.
Beside this army there is a national
guard of militia and there are enough
generals and officers for an army of
quarter of million of men. The navy
is com posed of thirty vessels, the larg-
est of which is the Almirante Brown,
Of $500 tons displacement. Her armor
is eight inches thick Beside these there
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

Then all change seats, the ladies ad.
vancing one seat and the gentlemen
retreating. When ten changes have
been made the one having the greatest
number of gold stars is declared tho
winner OF the prize. -PhilaAe 'pAia IN,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

The Blissfeld, Mich, postmaster
has issued formal notice that he won't
lick stamps for anybody, and that here
after letters dropped in the mail box
with two cents don't go. He says the
letters will be held for postage even if
S. bill is pinned to every one.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

WILLIAM X. VANDERBILT has given
his check for $1,000 to young man
who was bitten by one Of his pet
hounds. Other young men who might
wish to be bitten by this pet hound
will learn with regret that the animal
has been shot.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
Very Old Type Found.

A few days ago lot of type was
plowed up in field at Ephrata on
ground of the historic Seventh Day
Baptist Society. The press on which
this type was used is now in Philadel-
phia. in possession of tho State Histori.
cal Society. It was the second press
set up IN the colony of Pennsylvania.
1t was obtained by the society at
Ephrata in 1742. and for half century
thereafter was in active operation.
Besides the celebrated Book Of
Martyrs" which was printed on this,
primitive press over forty other publ
cations are known to have been issued.
A large amount of Continental money
was also printed here shortly after Con-
gress adjourned from Lancaster to York
in 1777.
Among the publications was an
edition of the New Testament. Three
wagon loads of printed sheets CT these
We're seized to make cartridges for the
Continental Army. and at the battles OF
Germantown and Brandywiue the curl
Gus spectacle was presented Of the
Bible being utilized by the patriots to
beat the British.
The old press was worked by the
brethren of the cloister until 1895. The
type that has just been found must
therefore have been buried almost a
century ago. Notwithstanding this
long disuse and exposure, it i, in a good
state OF preservation, the lettering be-
ing quite distinct and corresponding to
the imprint on many of the old hooks
yet preserved at Lancaster. = PAilade!-
phia Inquirer.
"A Curious Experience While Lass Fishing
A remarkable experience from an
anglers point of view befell Bob
Waters, of Fort Wayne, while fishing
for black bass at Viberg's Lake, Allen
County, Ind. The lake is long land
narrow. Mr.. Waters deems it expedl-
ent to use float in black bass fishing,
IN order that he may know when he gets
a bite. With a companion he took
boat at the foot Of the lake, and. max
ing his cast, waited and soon got bite.
1t was a big bass, and MI. Waters
yanked with all his might, and he
yanked the line apart just above the
float. The float went sailing away on
the surface with the bass towing it
along, and it was soon lost to sight.
Mr.. Waters did not observe that the
fish had carried the float away. He
supposed it had drifted from the boat.
An hour afterward, o mile from the
spot where he had hooked the bass,
Mr.. Waters spied the float again and
made for it, but just as he reached over
the gunwale to capture it it was dragged
from his grasp. Then he realized that
the bass was still attached to the hook
and he rowed frantically to overtake the
float, but it was lost again. Toward
night, while fishing toward home, at
the upper part of the lake, Mr.. Waters
saw the float again, and row
ing cautiously towards it managed to
twist tishline around the float. IN a
minute or two fine three-pound black
bass was landed in the boat. MI
Waters and his companion are still de-
batting which angler caught the bass.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

A HARTLAND, Mich, woman thought
she heard burglars in the house while
her husband was away and, getting out
an old horse-pistol, she blazed away at
something she saw in the road. Her
husband now hewails the loss of 5000
mule that she fired at.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

EDWIN ORR1N's American circus in
vaded the State Of Zacatecas, Mexico,
and the day after its arrival an cpl
demic Of measles broke out among the
inhabitants. Now all the oldtimers in
Zacatecas declare it was punishment
for allowing the show to come into the
State on some special saints day and
break up q religious procession.