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The Hall Moving Machine Com
pany offer for sale $4,000 of
preferred stock The Chapman
Banking Company OF this city
guarantees upon this stock u @
per cent dividend, payable semi
annually, for three years, the first
dividend being payable Septem-
Der rs, 1891. In ADDITION 10
the diyidend guaranteed IL can be
readily shown that the stock Is
also certain TO draw N contingent
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per cent.
The company Is the owner OF
patents which are conceded 10 be
Of the greatest value, and which
many expert machinists predict
Will ev0Iuti0nize the manufac.
ture of mowers. The company
has already more orders than IL
can MI the present year, and I'm
quesfionably has n future OF
exceptional prosperity. Among
those interested I'm this enterprise
are several OF the strongest men
OF Portland and vicinity.
Until April list, unless previous
iy withdrawn, this stock will be
sold mt par after that date, mt par
and accrued guaranteed dIvi.
dend.
The stock Is offered solely for
the purpose of extending the
plant and building and equip.
ping n new factory.
We shall be glad TO give full
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our plans 10 amy investor who
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20 any who prefer 10 make inquir-
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MONDAY. JUNE 22.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu-
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 retain or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1891-06-22
RUMFORD FALLS POWER co.
Notice to Contractors.

SEALED PROPOSALS for doing earth work,
- ledge work. and masonry, in building canal
received at their Office 800 Congress street. Port
land. Me-, until four ~ O'Clock p m. on Monday,
June %, 1891.
Plans, specifications and form of contract may
be seen at the office of the Company.
The Company reserves the right to reject any
and all bids.
Schedule Ct Approximate Quantities:
10000 to sc, 900 cubic yards earth excavation.
1000 to 5000 cubic yards ledge excavation.
$500 to 5000 cubic yards OF retaining wall.
je17dtd
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Messrs. Harper & Brothers publish a very
dainty pocket edition of Wordsworth's
Poems, with an introduction by Matthew
Arnold, who in an essay full oflcritical rather
than fervid literary appreciations. ends with
citing Wordsworth's own sentence concern.
ing his poems: "They will cooperate with
the benign tendencies In human pature and
society, and will, in their degree, be efica-
cious. in. making men wiser, better and
happier"
The Portland daily press., 1891-06-22

The North American Commercial Compa-
ny. not unreasonably, perhaps. objects to the
presidential proclamation limiting the catch
of seals to 1900. To this company, It will
be remembered, was leased by the govern
ment the privilege of catching seals on the
Alaska Islands. the catch being limited, we
believe. to 10000 in single season. The
company say that on account of this con-
tract they went to large expense, and that
the cutting down of the number of seals to
1900 will involve them in large loss. 1t
would seem on the face of the matter as IL
the company had a good claim against the
government for a part of the expenses at
least, to which they have been put. Iii
better. however. that the arrangement for
close time should be maintained, even If it
subjects the government to some expense in
the way of reimbursement to this company.
The Portland daily press., 1891-06-22

biography; the book will find Its own way,
as companion and comment to the poems
OF Robert Browning Boston: Houghton,
Miffiin d Co.: Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmon. Price $30O.)
The Portland daily press., 1891-06-22

Henry Ward Beecher. Mr. John r. How
ard, for forty years friend and literary as
sociate of Mr.. Beecher, has prepared care
ful, intelligent and well arranged monograph
upon the life of the famous pastor of Ply
mouth Church. 1.-THE central element of
Henry Ward Beecher's character" writes
Mr.. Howard, was his sensitiveness to
truth" He accepted il eagerly, in whatever
aspect 1t might present itself; and he stud
led unremittiLgly the means to bring it init
mately to the minds OF his hearers. His
ideal was to meet men and women on COM
mon ground of interest, to find out what they
knew and cared for, and use that as lever
age force upon their feelings. Mr.. Beecher
himself wrote: First. l sketched out the
things we all know, 80. and in that way
went on with my "you all knows until
had about forty of them. When had got
through that, turned round and brought it
to bear upon them with all my might" Ten
years of missionary work preceded Mr..
Beecher's pastorate at Plymouth church:
years in which he deepened his knowledge
OF human nature. An instance of his tact is
the manner in which he preached upon the
slavery question while at Indianapolis
before had been there year." he wrote,
Il had gone all over the sore spots of slavery,
in illustrating the subject of Christian expo
rience and doctrine. 1t broke the ice." His
patriotic addresses were made during the
years 1S5O-1SS5. and treated of Slavery, The
Civil War, and the Development of Civil
Liberty in the United States. A sentence
may represent them: ut is always safe to
be right; and our business is not so much
to seek PEACE as to seek the causes of peace"
Judicious personal "reminiscences occupy
the last part of Mr.. Towards volume. Three
portraits represent Henry Ward Beecher at
the ages of 43, Go and 70. New York:
Fords, Howard 81 Hurlburt; Portland: Lor-
ing. Short d Harmon. Price 70 cents.)
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Illustrated book entitled Guide to Health and
value ladies' We will present rOpy addressing with
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-16

how many lay concealed within IT, and
at last they hit upon the very plan l
had been dreading.
"a lighted torch was thrown over
and quantity of leaves and moss was
pushed after it. But their amiable in
tention of smoking us out failed, owing
to the dampness of the leaves and moss
and my having deluged the floor of the
cave with all the water we had on hand.
Seeing this fail they summoned up
courage to enter the cavern, and as we
saw the five forms leap over the edge
the women and l opened on them. l
killed my man instantly, and so did
Mrs. Ridley, who Immediately let u
duslSy devil who, screaming, rushed
upon her, have the full contents of the
other barrel in his breast
"The other woman missed her aim,
and the next moment was in the grasp
of one of the Indians, but before | could
come to her rescue her son, u boy OF
twelve, had flung his arms around the
redskins neck, and, hanging on his
back, kept him from striking, when the
woman, picking up a tomahawlS, struck
him "a tremendous blew on the fore
head. He dropped like "A log, crushing
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-16
ABOUT GOLD LUNCHES.
A Vision of the Viands Contained in tn
School Boys Basket.

School Boys Basket.
know that / haven't any business
with that subject at all, and / know as
well as you that it's entirely out of my
line, and that it would be in much bet
ter taste for me to attend to my own
affairs, and leave the preparation of
picnic provender to those who are sup
posed to have cinch on it, so to speak.
But it does seem to me that / repre-
sent large constituency which has a
vital interest in the other end of the
subject, I. C., the opening of the lunch
basket, Ever since I was a little boy
and took my dinner to school in a tin
pail I've been meaning to write few
words on this subject, but other things
have come up, as the man said who was
sick at sea, and l have neglected it.
How well do | remember the lunch L
used to eat, under cover of my desk, in
the ten minutes just before noon, so
that could put in the entire incoming
working up" from third short stop to
batter, just in time to get one belt at a
yarn ball, with piece of an old fence
rail, before the bell rang to call us in to
our studies again!
All, that lunch! How well do / re-
member it! 1t went all right then, but
| wouldn't eat facsimile of it again
now for much fine gold. remember it
used to be laid into the little two quart
tin pail, in regular courses as it should
be eaten. There was the little saucer
pie on the bottom, with the liberal slice
of soft ginger cake resting on top of it,
and well pressed down into the pie.
Then there was the hard boiled egg
and the limp cucumber pickle on top of
the ginger cake, and incorporated in its
softness by the pressure of the two
sandwiches just above, and the rosy
checked apple which confronted you
first when the cover came off.
But, as 1 say, it used to go well
enough then.
Nowadays, though, it strikes ter
ror to my soul when the average lunch
basket is opened. Bah! Fruit, sand
wiches, string bean pickles, salad,
chicken wings and drum sticks, boiled
eggs, jam and cream puffs, all packed
in together tightly, to economize space.
Bananas with sponge cake adhering,
and turkey with flavor of lemon jelly.
Sandwiches with strain of sweet to-
mato pickles running through them, and
lady fingers stuck together in blocks.
Ladies who are unexcelled artists in
other cuisine preparations seem to fail
someway when it comes to putting up a
lunch. If hadn't made up my mind to
stop with hint, would suggest just
what my ideal picnic lunch would be-
but refrain.
But tell you, sisters, many a good
husband will be lost this year, just be,
cause Of the way the lunch, which some
sweet, fair girl has prepared with loving
care, looks when the basket is opened
Charles Newton Hood, in Puck.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-16

heads had been hit and the third disap-
peared. l heard a voice shouting for
the others to come up, and could distin-
guish the tones of colloquy being
held, though without hearing what was
SAID.
Presently light torch was flung
into the cave, but had retreated into
the further one, and, nothing being
visible, the Indians were nonplused
and heard one cry out that there was
nothing there, Another retorted angrily
that some one had killed Blue Water
and Leaping Tuytle. This was fol-
lowed by patter OF shots on the floor
Of the cave, one of which, rebounding,
struck one of the childFen on the breast,
but, though the bullet Embedded itself
in the skin, the pluclsy little fellow did
not utter sound. AS their firing still
produced no effect the Indians did not
know how to account for matters and
presently one of them was imprudent
enough to stick his head over the edge,
but made no move and they held an
other council. 1t was evident that they
feared TO enter the cave, not knowing
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-16
LUNAR HEAT.
The Moon Simply a Reflector of the Solar
Rays.

Rays.
Attempts to measure the heat ra-
dated by the moon are comparatively
recent, and, so far as we know, en-
tirely of modern origin. Melloni in
1916 at Naples was the first to get un-
deniable heating effects from moon
light, but Tyndall got no result by the
use of the thermopile. In 1856 Piazzi
Smith made experiments at the peak
of Teneriffe with the thermomultiplier,
Prices candle at distance of fifteen
feet being found to radiate just twice
as much heat as the full moon. Still
more exact and extensive was the
series of observations made by the
present earl of Rosse, 1S69-72. Lord
Rosse was the first to discover that,
during its long day of three hundred
hours, the moon does not store up
heat; the instant the suns rays are cut
off, as in eclipse, the heat declines, and
no radiations are apparent in the most
sensitive of terrestrial instruments.
Prof. Langley has shown that, in the
absence of an atmosphere, the lunar
surface, even under the fiercest sun
shine, must remain frostbopnd at
somewhere below 80 degrees Fahren-
heit, and this result agrees with ter
restrial condit ions at great snow-cov.
cred attitudes.
The following are some of the re.
suits which have been obtained from
Prof. Boys radio-mlcrometer when ap.
piled for the measurement of radiant
heat-viz., from a candle, Il fire, the
sun, the moon, the stars or anything
else which radiates heat through space.
An appreciable effect is produced upon
the radio-micrometer by candle placed
two miles away, at which distance its
| light is almost comparable to that of a
barely visible nebula. This prepares
us for the altogether new measure
ments obtained of the moons hear
Not only is the total effect of the lunal
rays enhanced by the radio-micrometeI
as compared with the results obtained
by the earl of Rosse, Prof. Boys esti
mating them as 100000 times greater
than those of a candle twenty fee
away; the local effects in various Sc
lected parts of the moon-the differ
ential radiations from point to point
are also detected. This is an altogethei
new achievement in thermal researches
upon the surface of our satellite. Th'
difference of radiation between a moor
nineteen days old, which goes through
the sky with It's dark edge foremost, ant
the nine-day moon, in which the brigh
edge goes forward, and the diminished
heat at the terminator as compared
with the luminous part of the disc
show in wonderful way the discrim
mating power of the instrument. Prot
Boys experiments, with their large
results, fully confirm the inferenc
drawn from the earl of Rosse's obser
vations-that the heat of the moo
does not accumulate by penetrating be
meath her surface; it lasts only fror
moment to m5'nent as supplied by tn
san.-Leisurc hours
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-16
PLucKY NEwseoYs.
they Make Things Interesting for a I'm
Row Rough.

Iney maksc InluEa lDcereHtlnE Tor ~ FurK
Row Rough.
The newsboys who gather on Park
row every afternoon and wait for the
Mail and Express to go to press are u
pretty sturdy lot of little fellows.
Most of them are obliged to take care
of themselves, and, by the same token,
are well able to do it. They very fre-
quently have an odd fight among them
selves, but. aside from that, are as
clannish as Highlanders.
There is one rough in this town who
found this out the other day in very
thorough manner, and to the huge sat
isfaction of many spectators. He is q
great hullSing fellow, who for some
time past has been in the habit of loaf
ing about Park row in the afternoon
Just about the time the boys are wait
ing for the evening papers. Sometimes
he would be sober, but much oftcner
he would be drunk. But, drunk or
sober, he was fond of giving exhibitions
of humor of a very peculiar kind.
His idea of gool joke consisted in
swooping down on small newsboys and
cutting and hustling them, pulling their
ears or HAIR, or In showing their bundles
of papers so that they would fall in the
dirt. He had number of other little
tricks of the same kind, and, take him
all in all, he was a very industrious,
painstalling, ingenious sort of a brute.
The other afternoon the boys them
selves took a hand in the fun. When
they began to gather on Park row il
was evident they had some business
out of the common order. Every boy
of them had either in his hand, or where
he could quickly reach it, some kind OF
long thin stick. Some had barrel
hoops Strengthened out, some laths,
some broken canes, some old umbrella
ferules.
They gathered about and waited, say
ing no word to any one, and, for once
forgetting their favorite game Of
''craps" and refraining from their shan
battles among themselves, with which
they sometimes entertain the onlookers
Then came the humorous gentlemen
before referred to, and in the space of {
| few seconds he had cuffed couple o.
/ the boys and knocked off the caps
of as many more, out of sheer wanton
ness. Then there was an explosion ant
he was in the middle of it.
In an instant he was surrounded by
a throng of boys, each with stick anC
the way these sticks did play p tattoo
on that rough's legs was simply gor
geous. Every blow was meant to count
and it did, too. In vain the hullking vic
tim would dash at his assailants, in thu
hope of catching some of them. They
were too nimble, and each dash woulC
only attract charge of fresh enemies
1t was q remarkable contest, and tn,
commander of the boys, a ragged urchil
with red hair, covered himself witt
glory as with garment.
1t could end in only one way. Th
bully found the odds too great. He wa
vered and then fed, hotly pursued b,
his diminutive foes until he took refug
in the post Office. Then with a cheer o
victory the boys threw their stick
away and hurried down to get the pa
pers that were just coming off tn
presses.
The bully has not been seen on Par
row since. He may have changed hi
ideas of humor.-N. Y. Mail and ES
nreSS
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-16
EH1slTE

children; aye, the very baby in the
cradle. / don't believe in peoples hair
turning white with trouble and anxiety,
for mine would be as white as cotton if
snch would do it. Especially once did
have fearful experience with red
skins. Want to hear about it?
well, it was in As, and I'd been out
Tradin' 'mongst the Flatheads and the
Nez Perces for nearly two years off and
sOn, when one day | caught on to a
scheme the Flatheads had got up to
raid the little settlement near to where
Canton. New, now stands. There were
Abree families living there, and the plan
was to wait until the men went to Car
son City for provisions, when the women
and children We're to be killed and the
cattle run off by one party, while an
sJther waylaid the men on the way
Snclt and murdered them. | was up
about Winnemucca when got hold of
this, and | set off for Canton as hard
as l could go, but the men were gone
by the time l reached the settlement,
which was called Ridley's camp.
had reason to fear the Indians were
only a few hours behind me, and we
had to move quickly. Our only chance
was TO hide in the mountains till they
Left the neighborhood or work our way
as best we S9uld by night to Carson
City.
1T was useless to think of saving the
men, so l just kept that part of the
business to myself. There were in all
E.hirteen of us, two women and their
seven children, and two little chaps
whose mother had died the week be.
fore, and me. The first thing did was
10 stampede the cattle and herses to
keep the Indians from getting them
then, as we started, shut up the house
10 keep the redskins as long as possible
there before they found out the peopis
had run away.
1--WE made the little creek called
Snake river by daylight, and after re-
Seonnoitering l made the whole party
vwade out to an island in the middle
which was about twenty by thirty feet
and covered with flags and rushes anC
some stunted willows. Here we lay al
day, for the most part down on oul
StOmachs under the brush. OF course
we could build no fire nor mov'
about, so we ate the cold victuals thu
women had brought along, and dipped
mp water with my cap. Twice partie
of Indians stopped not a hundre'
yards below where we were to waite
their horses, but, judging from thei
actions, knew they did not suspec
anyone was near them, but were prob
ably on their way to Ridley's. The.
did not linger but rode on at once
much to my relief, for all the time the.
were within hearing am sure di
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-16

THE WOMEN AND 1 OPENED ON THEM.
the boy beneath him. The remaining
Indian, seeing his companions fall,
made break for the entrance, and was
just climbing out when l caught him,
and, firing, brought him down with a
broken arm and ball in his side.
"Seeing him helpless and thinking
him dying, did not shoot again, but
walked back to the women, whom l
found shrielSing with excitement
quieted them and congratulated them
on their courage, which, however, was
entirely gone as soon as the call for it
was over. 1 rolled the Indian off the
boy, who was considerably bruised by
the weight of the dead body, but other
wise not hurt The wounded Indian l
found to be an old acquaintance of
mine, and, seeing he was dying rapidly,
did not disturb him. He told me that,
finding Ridley's camp deserted, the
main party had gone back home, but
that, suspecting me of having warned
them, some of the young hotbloods had
followed us to be avenged on me. They
were pretty certain that was the only
man in the party, but did not know but
what others had joined us.
"Well, we took possession of the
ponies, and were able to travel much
more rapidly, though had it not beer
nearly desperate to think of walking
in our exhausted condition l would moi
have risked riding them for man or
foot has twenty chances on the plains
to one that the mounted fellow has
We reached Carson City without fur
ther adventure, though starvation ant
thirst and fatigue were our constan
companions, and there found tn,
womens husbands and the other man
who were just starting home had t.
get a doctor to give me something tc
quiet my nerves, for for eight days anC
nights l had not slept more than thirt!
minutes out of every twenty-four hours
and even after all were safe could no
quit listening for noises"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-16

The swamps of the bay of Campeachy,
which are on level with the sea, be-
come so completely parched during the
heat of summer that the huntsmen, who
lose themselves in the extensive forests
with which they are covered, would be
in danger of perishing with thirst were
they not provided with living fountains
in the wilderness where there are no
springs or running water. The trunks
of a kind of pine, indigenous to the soil,
are covered with species of fungus
called from its peculiar form, pineap-
pies. They resemble packet Of leaves
piled one upon another, and are SO full
of sap that cn piercing them with a
knife, at the base, nearly pint of clear
and wholesome juice Immediately dis
tils.-Vick's Magazine.