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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-08-05
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.

BOOTHBAY, Aug 3-Ar, schs Mary A Rice,
Wentworth, BANGOR for New Bedford Harvester,
CULVER do for Newport; Waterloo. Cavanaugh,
do for Boston; Lone Star, Church, Machias for do
l. A Durham, Brown, Boston.
In port, schs Red Wing, for Washington; and
20 sail mackerel vessels
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Baby cried,
Mother sighed,
Doctor prescribed: Castorial

"There," said the telegraph operator, 81 don't
know who that man is, but he's got more good,
hard brains than anybody ever saw
"Wnv how do you know that?"
"WeIl, I've been sending messages for the last
nineteen years, and he's the first man that didn't
stop and say Now I'd like to have this go right
off."-Boston Times.
VAN HoUTENs Cocoa delicious-made in
stantly.
Teaeher-John, of what ale your boots made?
Boy-Of leather, sir.
Teacher-Where does leather come from?
Boy-From the hide of the OK.
Teacher-What animal, therefore, supplies you
with boots and shoes and gives you meat to eat?
Boy-My iather.-N. E. Farmer.
A woman VINO is weak, nervous a3G
sIeepless, and who has cold hands aud feet Can
mot feel and act like well person. Oarter's lroD
Pills equalize the circulation. remove nersnu-
ness and give strength aud rest
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FINALH EN-, aug 2 At, sci FUIuIsV0l
LOOK, Jonesboro.
Sid, sch q M Brainard, Mullin, Philadelphia

The fourmasted schr in the yard Of : Crosby
at Bath Is nearly planked up and viii be ready ior
sea In October. She is 200 It on keel, A. ~ Dea,
49,. Deep and VIII carry $500 tons coal. Caps
Reed of schr Frank L Stinson, Is to coh,manu
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-08-05
New YORK Mining Stocks.

NEW YORK, Aug. 189O-The following are
to-daY's closing quotations of mining stocks.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-13

his right arm shot forward from its
backward extension, and the rawhide
thong whizzed through the air until it
settled its snaky coil about the neck of
the astonished old COW, twenty feet
away. After bringing her to q halt
Baaser dropped his RATA, and let the
COW start off with it at trail.
~ dropped that on purpose, he said,
"but o man often loses his rope through
accident, and then it becomes necessary
to be able to recover it without dis
mounting. If a man got off to pick it
up it would never be within his reach
on account of the movements of the ami
NAL to which it is attached. This is the
way to pick up a rope"
Baaser started Biddy after the fast dis
appearing cow, turned her and headed
her back for the focus Of the camera.
"Nowr' he yelled as he dashed by on a
hard run, and with wild swoop he
reached with his left hand for the trail
ing riata. His only hold it seemed was
by the compression of his right heel
against the face of the saddle cantel and
q light grip on a wisp of Biddy's main.
Almost before he was down be was up
again, taking turn around the horn
and checking Biddy. She braced her.
self, the rope tautened, and the galloping
cow came to halt with an unpleasant
audiences that would have thrown her
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FARRAR ON TIE LIQUOR 7Rxyy7c..

FARRAR ON TIE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
Archdeacon Farrar contributed 10 q Late
number Of the Contemporary Rerieso strik--
ing article ON the drink question IN which he
says: .
1.-THE misery and degradation Of the lowest
classes will hardly betouched TIL tt has bean
recognized how purely, and often howmanly
selfish, Is the opposition to the cfortsof tem-
perance reformers. Until the nation aoeg
that 1t Is its imperative duty to diminish, Il
not to end, by strong and determined legis-
lation, the intolerable and interminable curse
Of drink, to control the liquor traffic by tha
most stringent conditions, to punish drunk
enness as crime and to put down this need.
lessly multiplied temptations TO this worst,
most fatal and most continuous cause OF ruin
and brutality, nothing will be achieved. II
the English people are not serious enough or
righteous enough to defeat the tyranny Of
the drink traffic, 1t may fold its hands and.
await the certain and final catastrophe. II,
on the other hand, we summon up sufficient.
courage to sweep aside base sophistries, and.
to save myriads from destruction, by grap--
ping with this master-hend Of drink, oil other
legislative remedies would very soon becoudI
efectual. Rookeries would DO rebuilt;
would be swept away: virtue would be en-
couraged; the interests Of vice would be hay.
rassed; IL would became much easier to do
good and much more difficult to do evil" sii
Archdeacon Farrar's stirring words are,
applicable to our own country as well as to-
Great Britain. His eloquent appeal should
be heard and needed on both sides Of tho At
lantic.-Ndtiona Advocate.
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down but for Baaser's letting out a
little slack at the critical moment.
"Now, if this was tough old steer
with disposition to be ugly, should
proDaDly want neip IN throwing MIN
down and getting the rope of, but with
COW Biddy's aid will prove sufficient. "
The intelligent little filly braced herself,
head onto the COW, and followed her
every movement without allowing the
rope to slacken an inch while Baaser
jumped off and walked up to the cows
head and slipped off the moose.
"The pickup is very useful" said the
young vaquero, "and in more ways than
one. If I lose my hat I can recover it
without loss of time. See" and he
tossed his sombrero to the ground, rode
off little way and recovered it on the
run with the same marvellous swoop as
before.
"They say that some of the boys catch
jackrabbits out on the plains, but I never
saw them do 1t, for my work has becn
mainly confined to Butchertown; and We
don't have jackrabbits over here. There
is dog that I'll practice on, though, and
you can get an idea of how it is done. :"
A small kiH was chasing down the
road at the time, and Bsaser took after
him. The terrier was elusive for time,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-13
RECOVERING A DROPPED HAT.

RECOVERING A OhofFED Hal.
but finally kept on in straight line, and
in an instant Baaser was alongside. He
had to make a wide reach this time and
there was foot of daylight between his
body and Biddy's side when he clutched
doggy by the ears and nape Of the neck
and swung him into the saddle.
The next exhibition was of the horses
intelligence in keeping taut rope on s
steer that turned ugly and pursued the
horse and his rider. The bracing was
perfect and the manipulation of the rope
in keeping the steers head turned to-
ward the rest of the herd in spite of her
plunging excited much admiration for
Biddy. A similar exhibition was given
of towing a sulky steer that refused to
be driven or prodded in the night direc-
tion.
Baaser confessed that he had never
been in an Indian country, and had not
had experience in fighting on the run, but
he was familiar with the tricks of some
of the boys who had, and illustrated
them. The commorest piece of work in
this line is shooting under the horses
neck while lying extended in such a
manner rs to have the body almost en-
tircly protected from bullets of an en-
emy in front or oa the side. Either
rifle or pistol can be effectively handled
by clever rider in this name Pick.
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q
Bismarck Got the Bell.

When Bismarck was Prussian dele
gate to the federal diet at Frankfort ne
took apartments in the house OF apatrl-
clan of that free city, who held the
Prussians in great repugnance; and when
Bismarck applied to him to have the Dell
fixed up in bis servants rooms he answered
that that was not in the agreement, and
that if Bismarck wanted bell he must
get it fixed himself, and at his own ex.
sense. A few days later loud report OF
firearms was heard to proceed from the
delegates room. The landlord, fright
ened to death, rushed up to his lodgers
apartments, and bursting, all out Of
breath, into Bismalck's study, found
him seated at his desk before great pile
of documents and calmy smoking his
pipe. There was a pistol lying on the
table, still smoking at the barrel. "Fot
the love of heaven, what has happenedf"
asked tie frightened landlord, more
dead than alive. Nothing, nothing,
answered Bismarck, quietly. "Don1
disturb yourself; I was only calling m!
servant. 1t is very harmless signal tt
which you will have to accustom your
self, for no doubt shall want oftentlme'
to use it again" The bell was fixed VI
next day.-Chicago Post.
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end vaqueros. Billy Roche Frank
Ranlett. Billy Smith, the quartet of Day
Brothers, 'Bloke" Harney, George Jinks,
Grant Pyle, Frank Pate, Tom O'Day,
Jack Lillard and hundred other experts
were out, but all were too busy with
their everyday duties to stop to talk or
illustrate their tricks Of rope and saddle.
Fred. Baaser, a smooth faced lad, who
was born here score of years ago and
has been in the saddle ever since, had
an off day, however, and consented to
show off little tQr the benefit Of the
Examiners commissioners. He had just
completed the education of a handsome
three year old flly with teaching her to
stand and keep a riata taut while he
dismounted and removed the rope from
the horns of an imaginary steer.
''It is handy to know how to get on S
horse quick" he began, when the &C.
mera was in focus. "Most of the boy:
do it this way" His left hand touched
the pommel and the bride reins at tht
same time; the right reached for the can
tel. Biddy, the flly, started forward
and with her first jump Baaser made {
spring resembling the fight of bird,
He landed with his right leg well acros:
the saddle, and by the time Biddy hae
gathered herself for the second jump th'
rider was in his seat, both feet in the
stirrups and prepared to rope COW, stop
a runaway or head off an unruly steer.
"Some of the boys jump on from be-
hind" said Baaser, "but they are we'll
acquainted with their horses and know
that they will submit to it. The major
ity of them take the side jump, though,
even when they are behind their horses,
for they are ready for business sooner,
and jumping with the horse is less him
drance to his getting under way than
Pumping solidly down on his back when
he is not looking or expecting it.
Throwing a rope comes next after learn
ing to ride. After becoming fair marks
man, with plenty of room to swing in
and the horns of steer for a target,
there are the underhand casts and the
throws with the rope on trail (without
a swing), to master, besides two or three
others that vaquero finds use for in var
ious emergencies. The cast with the
rope on trail is especially useful in a
corral picking up horse who might. if
alarmed by swing, give man on foot
o tiresome chase" :,
Baaser illustrated the cast from trail
by walking Biddy slowly in the direction i u
OF q browsing COW with the loop OF MS
riata trailing behind him. Suddenly
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REsCUING A CoMRADE.

the not over luxurious cattle cars pro-
vided by the railroads. California soil
has become too valuable to grow beef on
of late years, and Arizona, Texas and
the few remaining Territories now fur
nish its standard meat. From the foot
of Second street, where the live steers
lane, they are taken in hand by the CEN
taurs in the employ of the wholesale
butchers and driven to the big feed cor
rails on the hills just west of the road to
Uucle Toms cabin. Here they are baited
and rested and cooled off for few days
before going to execution, dissection,
the oven, pot or broiler, and the table.
From the corrals to the slaughter houses
the distance is couple of miles, mainly
through the main business artery of South
San Francisco, which said artery is much
broken by vacant lots that allow frisky
steers to escape to the surrounding hills.
The boys who conduct the transpor-
tation are nearly all Americans, says o
writer in the San Francisco Examiner,
and their pride in their horsemanship
prompts many an antic and daring feat
to delight the audience that daily as
sembles to witness the bovines' funeral
march to the shambles. Without money
and without price the on,lookers witness
feats of riding that would make splendid
extras on Buffalo Bills programme. Some
of their daredevil gallops oEer the
broken hills in chase of q stray bullock
are exciting in the extreme, beside af-
farding opportunity for feats with the
riata and display of hurlng powers on
the part of the horses. When the drove
is orderly the boys lose their hats, and
pick them up from the saddle while their
berses are on the run, and resort to scores
of other tricks that tend to show their
cleverness. The dark-hued native Cali
fornian no longer shines pre-eminent in
cattle handling, throwing the lasso and
riding the trustworthy mustang; young
California, the son of the 49-er, has
learned his business and beats him at his
own game. The commonly accepted
reason for this is the preponderance of
nerve, GOODNESS, strength and daredevil
recklessness in the American stock, and
certain it is that the past fifteen years has
seen the Mexican and spaniard displaced
by the sons of the present holders of the
country.
An Examiner reporter and a camera
Snapshot expert toured South San Fran
cisco yesterday and viewed some of the
work of the more notable of the south.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-13
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

Cardinal Manning won't take liquor even,
when prescribed by physician.
A bug trying to run its head into o gas
light is about as wise as the man who thinks
a drink now and then won't hurt him.
Ofs034 persons engaged in the liquor traffic
in Phila ielphia few years ago, GALS had,
at one time or another, been arrested for
crime.
The next annual convention Of the Ma
tional ". c. T. U. will b, held in Trinity
Church, Atlanta, Ga, beginning Friday,
November IA.
Benjamin Franklin, while working as q
printer among London beer drinkers, was
called the American Aquatic because he
drank only water
Talk about keeping the palace saloon and
suppressinS the dogeeries. As well propose
to inoculate men with the virus OF smallpox
and suppress the erupton!-R 5. Thompson.
The wori toxical means poison and orig
inally signifies the poison in which arrows
had been prepared for battle. The poisoned
arrow was not more certainly the instrument
of death than is the poisoned cup OF the
modern saloon.
Sixty per cent. OF the medical students or
Toronto are total abstainers. Canadian doc
tors are beginning to realize the danger In
prescribing alcoholics so freely, ana 10 see
the necessity of placing them on the shelf be-
side arsenic and other poisonS.
A comparison of the business failures In
1889, in Kansas under prohibition and
Nebraska under high-license, shows that
there were2T2 failures in Nebraska as against
only 1888 in Kansas. While the ratio IN Kan
sas was one failure in every lN, IN Nebraska
one in every seventy-six.
A Pittsburgh peddler, just recovering from
mitted to Jail for five days in order that he
might be free, for short time at least, from
the temptation Of taking any more liquor.
As he was walking to prison, alone, he BE-
came thirsty and offered to sell his commit
ment to passer-by for twenty-five cents;
but as the proposal was naturally declined,
the peddler went on his way to voluntary IN
generation. $500. -..-
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THE CHILD WAS DRUNK.

Not long ago The Woman saw an Italian
mother in horse car with little child GER
tainly not more than two years old. The
little one stood, or tried to stand, on the seat
by it's mothers side. But it would keep sinke
Ing down on the seat at which the mother
would pick it up with sharp remonstrance,
and stand it on It's feet again. But the little
.eet were very unsteady and the small mall head
put up her glasses and looked sharply. Tho
sense Of smell as we'll came to her aid. The.
shAd was drunk. The mother had BEEN
drinking beer and had actually forced theI
stun down the throat Of that two-year.old
child. God help the children! One fearE
that there be many such mothers IN New
York.-Neto York Sun.
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AFTER THE CAST.

inc I'D wounded or dis:nounted COM
rade at full gallop is an easy matter when
the rider knows how to do it. The ia
vorite grip is over the back and under
the arms, and with horse and rider in
accord a rescue of this kind is effected
without slackening of pace for an in
slant.
The tricks of the Butchertown boys
with wild cattle aud broncho horses are
countless, and an hours wild west enter
tainment can be secured by trip to the
southern hills any afternoon.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-13
DRUNKARD's TRAINING SCHOOL.

Father Mcmahon, in addressing the d.
rectors of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union Of Cleveland, says: ..
Excess and penalty are as sure as cause
and effect. Every drunkard has history,
and it is always sad one. Our drunkards
are all graduates from the training school Of
drunkards will be recruited from the same
class. Young men who do not want to grow
old before their time, as SO many do should
not apply hot and rebellious liquor to their
blood, and the members Of our total absti-
nence societies are insuring for themselves:
true liberty, prosperity and happiness"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-13
COWBOY TRICKS.
WAYS IN WHICH A HORSE ANDA
STEER CAN BE MANAGED.
How to Pick up a Jack Rabbit "On
the Fly"-The Many Uses of a
Broncho-F ancy Horse
~ manship.

Over in South San Francisco, beyond
the smells of Butchertown, there is lit
tie wild west show in session nearly
every afternoon in the year. Anywhere
from to E o'clock P. NJ. the cowboys
drive the city's daily beef in on the hoof
from the corrals on the hills where the
steers recuperate from their long ride in
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-13
An Oriental Floating Hotel.

There is an interesting scheme for es-
tablishing a floating hotel at Hong Kong,
China. The vessel is to have three decks,
the lower being arranged for dining,
billiard, smoking and card rooms. The
main deck will contain drawing-room,
twenty-one bedrooms, each with full
sized bath and dressing room, while the
upper, or spar deck has been arranged
90 a nromenade. Chicago Herald.
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TEMPERANCE.
BE stood upon the worlds broad threshold;

BE stood upon the worlds broad threshold;
wide
The din Of battle and Of slaughter rose; -
he saw God stand upon the weaker side \
That sank in seeming loss before its foes.)
Many there were who made great haste and
sold
Unto the common enemy their swords; !.
he scorned their gifts Of fame and power and
gold.
And, underneath their soft and fowery
words,
Heard the cold serpent hiss; therefore he
went
And humbly joined him to the weaker part,
Fanatic named, and fool, yet well content
So be could be the nearer to Gods heart.
And feel its solemn pulses sending blood
Through all the widespread veins Of end
less good.
-.J1rnps RusceU To3reU
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james Russell LotreU.
THE KNITTING CRUSADE.

The women Of Moore's Hill, Indiana, have
ridding their community Of an obnoxious
saloon. 1t is knitting crusade. They take
their knitting work and in relays 60 to the
saloon and 'knit" it out. The saloon keeper
was obliged finally to surrender, and no man
has since been so rash as to start another.
The Emitting crusade" may not unlikely yet
become a powerful anti-saloon agency.
Women may be able to accomplish with
their knitting needles what the majority Of
men in most localities to their great shame
it must be said, will not do with their ballot.
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[To BE CONTINUED ]
A Japanese Pillow.

The head-dress is a most elaborate af-
fair, built on a foundation of cardboard,
which is blackened; the hair being
passed over it, is then smoothed down
and we'll oiled and d: into i they put fey
ers, combs, fancy pins and other Small ar
ticles intended to heightep their personal
attractions. The result is frequently an
artistic triumph. It is a tedious process
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English capitalists have just purchased
O large area of chalk rock land near
Yankton, South Dakota, and propose 70
invest S., 900, 900 capital.
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AN oMINoCs SIGN.

Young man! have not your eyes been fres
duently attracted to sign having the fol-
lowing ominous words On it: BARR
Avoid the place; it is no misnomer. The
experience Of thousands has proved Il ID
A bar to respectability.
A bar to honor.
A bar to happiness.
A bar to domestic felicity.
Every day proves it to be:
The road to degradation.
The road to vice.
The road to the gamblers hell.
The road to the brothel.
The road to poverty
Tue road to wretcEedness. ~
The road to want.
The road to robbery.
The road to murder.
The road to prison.
The road to the gallows. -
The road to the drunkard's grave.
The road to hell.
Some, it is true, do not pass through oh
these stages, but intemperance, persisted in,
always ends in the drunkard's grave, and, We
have too much reason to fear, in hell
The bar-room is truly: ~
The curse of the drunkard's wife.
The curse of the drunkard's child.
Those only who have known the bitterness
Of being drunkard's wife or child, can know
the misery and the horror Of the drunkard's
home.
Young man! before you enter the bar
room, stop! ponder the path Of your feet ere
t be too late!
Man of family! fee the bar-room as u
would in honor fulfill the pledge of love made
to her who is the companion Of your joys
and of your sorrows.-Bdnimore american.
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Mild-manner.d Chinamen who run
1erndries in New York are found to be
the most successful opium smugglers.
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e74z![il&!!.:Zx -
&<& GS

aud perhaps for this reason habit has
taught them to sleep without scft pillows;
instead of which they use round piece
of wood, like rolling-pin, about eight
inches long, supported on two wooden
feet, and with hollow for the neck to
lie in; so by these means the ladies ar
able to leave their hair untouched for
several days, as at night it does not be-
come at all disarranged; and for that
consideration, of course, they can recon-
cile themselves to its use.-Illustrated
american.
ApRocEss for marbleizing silk plush
without pressing or embossing 1t has
been discovered by the Astoria Silk
Company. By this process the light
and dark effects are reversed when
looked at from opposite points. The
finish is nicely preserved and does not
give the appearance of having been
wet, as shown in many goods Of this
aharacte-.
A PAPER read the otner day De1ore
the New York Medioo-Legal Society
stated that not more than ono homicide
in thousand was committed by an in
sane person. The insane shrink from
deeds of violence and sight of blood.
The paper also declared that three
iourths of the people are iusade, and
also that insanity is not hereditary. -