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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-10
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TWICE DAILY LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN IIf-
Ton HARHoR, ST. JOSEPH AND CHICAGO.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25

Many of the older residents of this Sec
ton remember the late DIR. John Warner,
of New Milford, and will appreciate this
little story. When DR.. Warner was a
student at Yale he used to come home
Saturday nights and return to New
Haven Mondays. That was before the
days of railways, and as stage coaches
did not leave New Milford Monday
for New Haven young Warner used to
mount his fathers horse and ride to Yale
on horseback. There were several toll
gates on the route, and at each Warner
would pay the return toll for his horse.
Arriving at Yale he would afix to the
bride card bearing these words,
"Please not stop this horse" The saga
cious animal would jog along homeward,
invariably reaching his stall at New Mil
ford all right. The toll takers got to
know the horse, and he was never inter-
rupted. On Fridays the horse would be
started alone to New Haven with a
small pouch attached to his saddle in
which was the exact change for the tolls.
Each toll taker would take his toll, and
the horse would trot along, reaching
Yale in the evening. This practice was
kept up until the young doctor was grad.
uated.-Danbury Conn News.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25

band dying in CHRISTINA BoRDNER.
1881 at the age of ninety-nine. Thirteen
children were born of the union, and
subsequent generations are as follows:
Grandchildren, &c., great-grandchildren,
BIT; great-great-g grandchildren, "a "a
total of 353.
Mrs. Bordner's living children are
Moses Bordner, of Lewistown; Mrs.
Levina Baker, Dallas; Washington Bord-
ner and Mrs. Margaret Ewers (twins),
the former of Lewistown and Mrs. Ewers,
of Erath county, Tex; Mrs. Francis
McCracken, Liverpool, township; Mrs.
Temperance M. Bass, of Erath county,
Texas; Alfred Bordner, Lewistown; Mrs.
Christina Putnam, of Dallas. All these
except Peter were present at the ami
versary. The deceased children are
Jonathan Bordner, Mrs. Catharine Shaw,
Mrs. Angelina Brown, all well known
Illinois pioneers. Sarah died at the age
of ten years. &
Mother Bordner is medium sized,
neither fieshy nor spare. Her hair is
gray; her eyes are unusually bright and
piercing. Her complexion is dark, and
there is an entire absence of the parch-
ment appearance of flesh generally seen
in very old people. Her voice is strong
and steady. In all these particulars she
seems to be well preserved woman of
seventy-five or eighty years. In early
life she joined the Lutheran church, but
in later years she has been member of
the Christian OisciplesO church. She
was born and reared among Pennsylva-
MIA Germans. Indeed, her children
when they went to Illinois could speak
no English.
Since the death of her husband she has
resided with her descendants, passing
from place to place as she desired. There
is loving rivalry among them as to
which one shall entertain the old lady.
Usually her health is good.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25
Names First Bicycle.

The great principle of the bicycle
wheel is that it has tension spokes. That
is, it differs from the ordinary carriage
wheel in that the weight hangs from the
tire instead of being supported upon the
hub by stiff radiating spokes. Hiram
Maxim, the great gunmaker, claims and
is supported by testimony that in 1867
he made a tension wheel. The wheel
was used upon the bicycle that Maxim
constructed. This bicycle was the first
ever seen in Maine. 1t was the real ar
ticle in prototype, but Maxim confesses
that sit went almighty hard" No one
realized or even respected the impor-
tance of Maxim's discovery, and he was
fairly overwhelmed with jeers as he
rode his strange continuance about the
streets of Dexter.
Perhaps it was for this reason that he
gave the toy to his little brother, who
took it into the seclusion of Sangerville.
One day the little shaver left it out in
the highway, and the first horse that
came along that way nearly had Aft.
Finally the driver secured his frantic
beast, and inspired by righteous rage
and thorough ignorance attacked the BIZ
cycle as though it were some rare wild
beast. He batted and mauled it every
which way, and Maxim's hopes on
wheels were a wreck forever.-Holman
+. Day in Lewiston Journal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25
Aerial NAVIGATION and warfAre.

Many ask what use aerial navigation
will be put to in case it succeeds. To
this I would reply, certainly not for car
rying freight, and not, for q considerable
time at least, for carrying passengers.
When the first flying machine succeeds,
its first great use will be for military
purposes. It will at once become an en-
CINE of war, not only to reconnoiter the
enemy's positions, as has been attempted
with the socalled dirigible balloons, but
also for carrying and dropping into the
enemy's lines and country large bombs
charged with high explosives.
1t does not require prophet to fore
see that successful machines of this char
acter would at once make it possible for
q nation possessing them to paralyze
completely an enemy by destroying in
few hours the important bridges, armo-
ries, arsenals, gas and water works, rail
way stations, public buildings, etc., and
that all the modern means of defense,
both by land and sea, which have cost
untold millions, would at once be rem
dered worthless. Of course this mode
of warfare would not do away com,
pletely with all forms of small firearms,
which would still have to be used in or
der to enable these future engines of wai
to combat one another; but it is safe to
assert that none but small and light guns
would be used.--Hiram s. Maxim in
Century.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25

ga Business Woman" writes to pro-
test against the agitation of dress reform
for women, upon the ground that
women's dress is in no need of reforma-
ton, and to propose a dress reform for
men. She wants to know why mems
trousers should not be cut off at the
ankles; she wants to know if there is
comfort in a shiny shirt front or a stiff
collar-the growing prevalence of fan
mel, silk, cheviot and unstarched linen
answers nay; she asks why men should
stuff yard or two of superfuous
cotton cloth into their trousers, instead
of wearing shirt waists as the little
shavers do; she shoots the hat of man,
so to speak, with condemnation of its
stiffness.
Sensible men will welcome the
thought of an effort to reform their
dress in the direction of comfort and
convenience. But our hopes are damped
somewhat by the memory of the fact
that. throughout the ages, when women
were the architects of mems shirts,
there was never known a shirt that
ftted.-San Francisco Argonaut.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25
Visitors and the Chinese Empsror.

Until the present generation our min
listers have never been received by the
emperor in person. The Chinese have
fought against such receptions as sacri-
legious. In 1878, however, the foreign
ministers forced the emperor to receive
them, and in 1891 the new emperor gave
his first reception to the foreign diplo-
mats. He probably will have to do this
many times in the future. I have re-
ceived letter from China describing
this reception and saying that it had a
great influence on the Chinese at Picking.
1t shows the people that these SO called
"tribute bearers" are worthy of notice
and makes them respect our ministers.
The last emperor wanted the diplo-
mats to go down on their knees and
bump their heads against the floor nine
times in front of the emperor, as the
Chinese do, but they refused to do this,
and no attempt was made to demand
this on the present occasion. The Chi
nese idea is to make the foreign minis
tiers, as far as possible, contemplate in
the eyes of the people, and it was forr
months before the audience of 1873 could
be arranged.-Frank G. Carpenter in
National Tribune.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25
KICKAPOO INDIAN OIL.

We do not know why
SCOTS Emulsion of cod-liver
oil is so useful in those simple
but varied conditions which
you know as i" having a
cough" We cannot explain
it: we only know the fact
from experience.
1t may be due to the COM
bination of tonic effects of
cod-liver oil and the hypo-
phosphites f; it may be partly
due to the glycerine. There
are many effects in medical
practice the causes of which
appear to be plain, but how
those causes produce those
effects we do not know at all.
Scorr & BOVINE, Chemists, rsa South sth Avenue,
New York.
Your druggist keeps SCOTS Emulsion Of eod-ver
oii-au druggists everywhere do. 81.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25
A Bright Career Cut Short.

Mr.. Wolcott Balestier, the author who
died recently in Dresden, was not quite
thirty years old, but had already reached
high rank in literature. He COM
menced writing short stories at seven
teen, and at twenty-five was favorabiy
known to several magazine editors. He
was born in Rochester, N. Y, Dec. 10,
1861, and in 1884 his first complete novel,
ga Patent Philter," appeared in the New
York Tribune.
The same year he published "a Fair
Device" and campaign life Of James
G. Blaine. He edited the periodical
called It'd Bits for short time and
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25
relegraphic Codes.

Ever since submarine telegraphy be.
came an established means of communi-
cation much ingenuity has been ex-
pended on the compilation of codes,
partly for secrecy, but principally to
abbreviate the messages and save money
in rates. To such fine point has codify-
ing been brought in this latter direction
that the telegraph companies are at their
wits end to maintain proper equi-
hbrium between the number of messages
sent and the number of words trans
mitted; In other words between the vol
ume OF actual business and the amount
of revenue. ALI large commercial
houses now use complicated codes, in
which single word Of ten letters rep
resents sentence of ten, fifteen OF
twenty words. Electricity.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25
How Some Men Waste Time.

The train stopped at little town. A
commercial traveller, dealing in groceries
and tobacco, got off; crate of live chick
ems was put on and the cars started
again. The stopping of train was no
rare sight in that village. for it happens
two or three times every day. The peo-
pie had no welcome for the commercial
traveller, no tears were shed over the de-
parture of the chickens; yet on the sta
ton steps / counted forty men and boys
who were there when the train came in
farm boys, who ought to have been at
work In the fields; village boys, who
might have been doing something some-
where, every interest of economics and
aesthetics alike calling them away from
the village and off to the farms. Two
men attended to all the business of the
station The solitary passenger went his
own way. The rest were there because
they had not the moral strength to go
anywhere else. They stood there on the
station steps, embodied ghosts, dead to
all life and hope, with only force enough
TO stand around and gape.-David S.
Jordan In Forum,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25
Inaccurate Map Makers.

Now the geographers are put on the
defensive as to their productions by a
missionary to Africa who has Travelled
on the middle Zambesi, and who says the
best maps of the country are very mac
curate; that rivers are laid down where
they do not exist, and that numerous
villages appear where there is not trace
of human habitation. He says the
maps are simply an aggravstion to trav-
elers, who are often put to inconvenience
by relying on information which they
find later to be inaccurate.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25

merged it in new one called Time. He
next went to London, and in partnership
with Mr. Heineman, established a
branch publishing house, the main bust
ness being to secure copyrights of Eng
ish works. In that business he formed
literary connection with Rudyard Kip
ling, and together they wrote 'Nau-
lahka, NOW running in The Century. 1t
would seem that hard work weakened
his constitution, and he died of typhoid
fever at the very outset of brilliant
career.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25

body servant. He speaks with great
reverence of cold Hickory" ON whom
he waited in his last illness, and almost
worships the memory of Rachel Jackson,
the generals wife. His story of the
place is told in quaint and homely way
that makes it very interesting.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25

brated her 102d
birthday. Sh Q
" a s born in
P e n n S VI vania,
the daughter of
Stephen and Mar
garet Losh, and
became the wife
Of Peter Bordner
in 1910. Her mar
ried life lasted
5 9 v Q n t y-o n Q
years, her huS-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25
How Much a Horse Eats.

A horse consumes every year the prod
uce of six acres in oats and hay, and
may be said to consume one-sixth of
what he cuitivates. If horse is kept
hungry for any length of time, he will
afterward devour his food so voraciously
as to distend his stomach and endanger
an attack OF staggers. Tit-Bits.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25
OVER THREE HUNDRED DESCENDANTS

An Illinois Woman Who Is Vigorous as
the Age of 1O2.
At the home of Moses Bordner, two
miles east of Lewistown, Ills, his mother,
Mrs. Christina Bordner, recently cells
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25

place. He is
ninety years old,
and black as tar,
but still intelli-
gent and able to
show visitors
about the Her.
mitage, where he
was born and has
passed his entire
life. His mother
was a slave of the
general, and so
the boy was
trained to be his
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25

Sir Arthur Sullivan will write the music
for Lord Tennyson's new play.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25

Warm borax water applied daily is a
speedy cure for dandruff.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25
45O FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY(
July 3, '0I.

OuAy VAs
MURDOCH LIQUID FOOD Co.. BOSTON. MASS:
GerltLemeal~-l have sent you by mail photo
graph of my four children (boys), thinking that
II might interest you little. as they were all
four broughtup on your Liquid Food as their
standard diet, most especially the one on the
right of the picture. When no was about six
months old he was very sick from having been
given sour milk by careless nurse-in TACT was
so bad the physician was unable to leave the
house for two weeks, during which time the
child was virtually dead from want Of nutrition,
as he was unable TO keep anything whatever
on his stomach. After trying all the known
prepared foods. both foreign and domestic
none II which were OF any use-the physician,
as a final hope, had me buy bottle OF your
Liquid Food, md from the very first five drops
gwen he began to rally, and has been In most
excellent health since.
Whenever any of them show any signs OF
weakness whatever we Immediately give them
your Liquid Food, and IL always acts like a
cnarm in restoring them to health.
Very truly yours,
ARTHUR j. PURSELI4
Any case that has been under medical
treatment for three months and no re-
lief we will carry free Of expense, WITH
Murd0ek's Liquid Food untii cured
made better.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25
MURDOCK'S LIQUID FOOD.

This is one Of many cases that we
can furnish, to show the value OF our
Lianid Food OVER ALL OTHER
Err TREATMENTS FAIL.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25

Mr.. Gladstone gets fifty cents . word for
his magazine articlesl
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-25
mAsCELLANEOUa.
MOTHERS

Realize the great loss of their children
when young from Gisease, or lack Of yi-
tality, and many times it comes from
carelessness Of the attending nurse.
Be it inherited, climate or disease de-
VelOped from carelessness, there Is re-
Lief and life Is saved By the use OF
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-05-12
DIED.

ALFREY In this city, on the 10th inst.
Herbert, son of Sarah A. and the late
Ebenezer Alfrey. In the slst year of his
age.
Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited to attend his funeral from the
residence OF his mother No. 2l0 West
street, on Tuesday afternoon, at 3 O'Clock.
Services at the house. lnterment at Old
Swcde's Cemetery.
RAsH.-on May ilth, 1891. Presley s. Rash.
aged 81 years
Relatives and friends are invited to at.
tend the funeral from his late residence.
No. l0l South Franklin street, on Thursday
moruing at o'clock. Interment at Old
Swodes Cemetery.
'Gone but not forgotten"
Dearest Father thou has left us
Here thy loss we deeply feel;
But It's God that has bereft us,
He can all our sorrows heal.
IMILLER.-At Port Penn, on the 9th of
May, 1891, VIM. II. Miller aged ~ years
Relatives and friends. also Smyth Post
No. |, O. A. r., ure invited to attend the
funeral from the residence of his son-in.
law, No Bl8 West Sixth street, on Thurs
day afternoon ut go'clock. lnterment al
Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery.
lCAMPBELL.-At liancroft's Banks or
the nth inst, James Campbell, aged Il
years.
Rclatlves and friends are respectfully
Invited TO attend tho funeral from his late
residence at Bancroft's Banks on Thus
day. the lith inst. at Up, IN. Interment n
Mt. Salem.
MORROW-In this city. on the llth inst.
4 George Morrow. aged 10 years.
/ Relatives and friends are respectful,
Invited to attend his funeral from hi
late residence, 1878 Market street, OF
Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Service
at the house. Interment at Rlverviev
Cemetery.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-05-12
FIFTH EDITION.
This Mornings Court.


This mornings session OF court
opened at 10 O'Clock, with all the
Judges present The grand Jury were
given several bills and retired TO their
room, after which several prisoners,
against whom true Bills had bsen
found. were placed In the dock.
Patrick McIntlre, charged with tic
latreq% OF two blankets, the property
OF M6hadl R1ley, pleaded guilty, but
on eccumM ef Its being his first offense,
and eyidefirA being produced Of good
character, he es4Bed with the costs,
aud three mohtfs Imprisonment.
Elias. Williams, colored, was indiot-
ed for the larcency of q number OF
chickens from David Cloud. Ee
pleaded not guilty and stated that / 0
had engaged Walter Bacon, Esq, as
his attorney.
Samuel Sewell, colored, indicted, for
the larcency of six watches from A.
thony E. Denomlne, pleaded guilty.,
but his sentence was deferred 20 I'll o
him an opportunity to prove charac-
ter.
Frank Meachem and Charles J. N,r.
ton. charged with burglary and lal-
ceny, both pleaded guilty, but stated
that 1t was their first ofIense, and thi &
they were drunk at the time Thu ir
sentence was also deferred to allow
them an oppoitun of producing
witnesses to show previous good char
acter.
Mlcheal Hayden. 15-vear old lo,
pleaded guilty to the larceny OF par
OF shoes valued at 81, and so cents in
money. AS this was his first offense,
and he-proved previous good charac-
ter, he escaped the post and was sen-
fenced to pay the COSTS S1.50 res, s,ift-
| Enn mr. md lao 4
| months.
George Cummings, colored wlo
pleaded guilty TO the larceny ofa watch
| was sentenced to pay the cost, $50
restitution money, beimprlsoneu three
months, and on Saturday next o
whipped with five lashes.
Petor Leshwell, charged with COM
hitting an assault on James Sheffing-
ton with intent to kill, through the /, :
vice OF his counsel Peter L. Coop ! /,
Esq, pleaded guilty OF assault.
Mr.. Cooper made u defense for his
client, which shows that he Is one of
the brightest young attorneys at this
bar anda valuable acquisition. After
hearing the prosecuting witness and
a statement by the prisoner the Court
sentenced the defendant to pay tine
of IL and costs and bo iia aprisoned one
month. This is the llghtost senten Q
ever imposed in this court for an as
sault of this kind, and tho prisoner
can thank his attorney that he escaped
SO easy.
Charles B. Evans, ESQ, asked the
Court to discharge Parker Smith, in
dlcted for assault with intent to kill
Joseph Leech, OF Chrlsiilna hundred,
ON November 1, 1880. Mr.. Evans made
his motion on the ground that the ac-
cused had been held by the State over
two terms of court, aud that therefore
he was entitled to his discharge, ac-
cording to the statutes.
The motion was opposed by Attor-
ney General Biggs, and the Court re-
served its decision.
At l2.4O ocldpk the grand jury came
| In, when recess was taken unit Il 2.30
O'Clock this afternoon.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-05-12
Tho MunIclpnI Court.

At the Municipal Court this morning
the case OF Bayard Groom and James
Commomlle were arranged for as
sault and battery but was laid over
untiltO-m0rrow morning.
Michael j. Carney, young man
charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses by selling number of
tickets for q social reception to be
given by the Social Four" in Mes
sicks hall the Goth of May, was held in
$500 bnil for the higher court.
Annie Iillman, whose case was held
over for a few days, ON u charge of a
murderOuS assault upon Lucy Rich.
artlson, was arraigned in the prisoner
box. W. II. Hillcs Esq, appeared for
the accused. II. @. Turner. Esq, ap-
peared as city Solicitor. Lucy Rich.
ardson, an intelligent negro woman,
then told how the lillman woman fol.
lowed her with razor. cut her across
the wrist and then down her left face
and jaw TO her mouth, Intending To
cut her throat.
The attneli was inspired hy jealousyon
the part of tho Tillman woman who
blamed the Richardson woman witt
| having harbored her husband. After
argument from both attorneys, Judge
Ball reserved his decision until Sat.
urday morning when City Solicitor
| Lynum would be present