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In the 2.3l class, the following horses
were contestants:

In the Psi class. the following horses
were contestants:
Ira p. Woodbury., br Scipio.
VIM. @. Marshall, Wilkesmont.
Lon Mcdonald, ch G Hector.
L. p. Hawkins bl m Dinah.
A. &. Libby, b Frenchman.
Scipio won the race, four heats settling the
contest. In the first the horses finished in
the order above given. In the second Hec-
tor was first. Wilkesmont second, Scipio
third and Gypsey fourth, Dinah being dis
tanced. The next two heats gave the race to
Scipio, second money to hector, third to
Wilkesmont, and fourth to Frenchman.
Scipio's last heat was an honor to the horse.
He did 1t in great shape In 230, and logged in
over part Of the stretch home.
The race for foals Of 1888 was won by Gra-
Meta In four heat race. She captured the
first heat, but fooled away the third. which
was declared no heat. The crowd was wild
with excitement, alleging that the drivers of
Granietta and Norka were working together
to keep her down In third place. 1t seemed
to be funny ldriving, and so thought the
judges, who fined Dustin, the driver Of Ora
Meta. $40. The fourth heat was then cap
tured by Granietta. Vepdome took second
money, Norka third. and Walter NJ. fourth.
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Chillan Affairs.

NEW YORK, September 10.-The Herald's
Valparaiso dispatches say that the Junta
yesterday decided that an election would be
the best method to bring about the TRANQUIL
ity so much desired and October IS next was
accordingly designated as election day. Col
onel Stephan has been captured and brought
to Valparaiso. His cruelty and brutality to
anti-Balmacedists who fell into his power
have aroused an intense feeling against him.
He will be very summarily dealt with
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ON THE DIAMOND.
GOOD Material for Next Season lin
These Bates Players.
Especial to the Press ]

Especial to the Press.l
LEWISTON, September 1O.-The Bates ball
team began another years work today by
winning game from team called the Can
tons, composed Of such men as Burns of the
one time Portlands, the Lezotte brothers Of
Lewiston. Kearns, etc. The game is Of In
terest. as giving a view of the material that
Bates has to represent her on the diamond
In '92. The score:
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The Farmers still Smile.

BETHEL. September 10.-The frost Of
yesterday morning did not do the damage 1t
was at first feared. The foreman Of the can
ming factory reports: "The corn is unin-
jured. The yield is large and the quality the
best ever put up" One hundred and fifty
hands are employed and the farmers are
hauling 1t In with smiling faces. The wealth
er is now all that could be desired. warm
and pleasant
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The following games were played yester-
day In the National League:

The following games were played yester-
day In the National League:
AT BOSTON.
Bostons. s.............2 1 o 4 1 SIS
Cmeinnatis .........2 o o o o. u
Base hits-Bostons. 20; Cincinnatis, IL. Errors
Bostons, 4; Cncinnatis, Z. Batteries-Nichols,
Staley and Cancel Crane and Harrington.
AT PHILADELPHIA.
Chicago. :........0 o o o 3 2 o c. 6
Philsdelphias. ......0 o 0 o o o 1 o o. /
Base hits-Chicagos. 10; PHILADELPHIA, g. En-
rors- Chicagos, 2; Philadelplas. 4. Batteries
Gumbert and Klttredge, king, Gleason and
Clements.
AT BROOKLYN.
Brooklyns.. 10 o o o o o l. 4
Pittsburgs...........O o o o o L q 8
Base hIts-Brooklyns, 8; Pittsburgs, @. Err
rors-Brookyns, q; Ptttsburgs. 3. Batteries
Caruthers and Daily, King and Miller
AT LOUISVILLE.
Baltimore. o o o O. 3
Louisville. o U c.
Base hits-Batimore, 6; Louisville, 4. Errors
Baltimore, 2; Louisville, A. Batteries-Mc-
Mahon, Robinson and Townsend, Meekin and
Shellhasse.
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2.21 cLAss-puRsr 5000 n,v,nrn
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AmerIcan AsaocIatlon.

The following games were played by AS
sociation clubs yesterday:
AT MILWAUKEE,.
Milwankees........4 2 o 4 7 o l CSC
Washingtons. ......O o o o 2 o o. 8
Base hits-Milwaukee, "a; Washingtons, z. Er-
Milwaukee : WASHING IONS ~ Ratteries-
killen aud Grim, Foreman, Hatfield and Nc
AT BOSTON.
Bostons. ...........3 o 2 XII
Base hlts-Bostons, 10; st. Louis O. Errors
Bostons, sc. LOUIS, J.. Batterles-Maddock
and Murphy, Rettger and Darling.
AT NEW YORK
New Yorks.........0 L 2OO o l. 6
CieVeiand... .....1 o o o o o. 8
Base hits-New York, 10; CIeyelands, 10. En-
Tors-New York, 2; Clevelands, @. Batteries
Ewing and Buckley, Gruber and thinner.
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Oxforddowns-Bucks, years, with Of pro-
geny, @. A. Brackett Gorham, L; bucks, year,
Z. E. Rrackett, Gorham. /; Q: A: Bracket, 2.
Buck lambs-C. @. Brackett, 2; ewes, years,
year, c. A. Bracket, L; K. K. Bracket. 2;
lambs @. A. Bracket, ].
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WANTED-To buy $1,000 worth of CASTOR
w clothing; pay the highest cash price for
ladies' dresses gents and children's clothing, and
gents winter overcoats; call, or address letter or
postal to MRS. GOODHART, 93 Middle street.
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The Three-YearoId Record. .

NASHVILLE. Tenn, September 10.-.Tbe
bay filly Blentonian at MurfresborO We'd
nesday, broke the 3-year-old record, tTotting
on half mile track In 222.
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Veterans Of the First

houLroN, September 10.--The First
Maine Cavalry Association had reunion
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1904. HEBRON ACADEMY 1894.


Located In a rural town noted for its healthful-
ness and morality and surrounded by magnificent
scenery, Hebron Academy recently endowed
and made one of Colby's fitting schools and pro.
vided with a splendid new building, Sturtevant
Hall. offers rare opportunity TO young men and
women wishing to fit for college or obtain q
general education at the smallest cost and under
Dositiye Christian influences. Old board OF in
struction is retained, aided by Rev. A. X. Crane,
d. D., who will conduct class IN the study OF
Biblical Iiterature at least one hour per week
For information and catalogues. address the Prin.
cipal w. K. SARGENT, Hebron, Me- =: u.
PACKARD, Secretary. 1yioeouzm
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the w EAThER.
Good Weather for the Falr.

Good Weather for the Fair.
Following is the forecast Of the weather
for New England: Fair; slightly warmer; |;
s0utherly winds.
Lacai weather Report.
PORTLAND, Me-, September 10, 1891.
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THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS.

AAA i O4k1AhKNO OAAA1 AsA<Sos
Published every day Sundays excepted) by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY,
At 81 KxoHANGE STREET. PORTLAND Me
TERMS: seven Dollars Year. When payment
made strictly In advance the price will be Six
dollars.
RATES OF ADvERTIsNG-On inch space Of
constitutes square"
SPECIAL NOTICES, one-third additional
Under head OF "AMUsEMENTs" and "AUCTIoN
SALES" s2.00 per square per week; three. .inser.
tons or less. S1.60.
$l.50 per square, daily, first week; 75 cents per
week after three insertions or less, 81 90; con-
tnuing every other day after first week, so cents.
Half square, three insertions or less rs cents
one week. $l.00; 5ocents per week after.
THE MAINE STATE PRESS.
Published every THURSDAY MORNING at a.. 90
year, in advance.
Advertisements inserted In the MAINE STATE
PRESS" (Which has large circulation in every
part OF the State) for 90 per square for first in
sertlon. and 90 cents per square for each subse-
| quent insertion.
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FARM FOR SALE.

L North Yarmouth on line OF Maine Central
u X. r., and mile from Walnut Hin meeting
house and Wescastogo Spring, the farm Of the
late John w. johnson. This Is one Of the best
contains 80 acres OF excellent land (seVeral acres
OF wood cuts 40 tons Of hay, has q nne young
orchard OF apple and pear trees, and abundance OF
Comparatively new, and In good repair; house
contains IL finished rooms, has piazza bay-
window, and an excellent cellar. Terms to suit
purchaser. For full particulars inquire of w. r.
JOHNSON, near the premises, or q. w. JORDAN.
YarmOuthVillc. iel9F&Tuf
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WANTED-Agents for cheapest life insurance
w known. previous experience not necessary.
only 23 single assessments total since 1885,
State treasury guarantee fund, responsible man
agement. no speculative features. Send for cir
culars. Correspondence invited. PROVIDENT
AID SOCIETY, of Portland, Me. ONCE 9S Ex-
change street. sep9-S
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ls A M | 8 p M
weather Observations.

Mean daily ther.... &C. @, Max. vel. wind. ...12 SW
Maximum ther .....71 .0I TotaI precip....-.. o.
Minimum ther.....60.0l
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Postmaster at AmIty.
The Pension List.

WASHINGTON. September 10.-C. p. Cur
tbs has been appointed postmaster at Amlty,
Me-. vice Mrs. X. B. Gerow.
The Pension List.
WASHINGTON, September 10. = Pensions
have been granted to the following Maine
people:
ORIGINAL.
Addison Sawyer, Joseph A. Glasro,
Setn NJ. kendrick, Andrew IL. Porter,
John kalligan, Moses 4. Simpson,
Edgar w. small, William III. Davis
stephen Il. Smith, John Hazeltine
Edgar r. Hughes, Arsea b. Webber.
Otis II. Hobart.
ORIGINAL, WIDOWS, ETC.
Mary Steene, Miriam Kent
Hannah u. Greenwood Nancy M. Odell
Minors OF III. @. Merrill, Maria Powers.
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"ANTED-Girl wanted for general house
w work at 1877 WESTERN PROMENADE,
Cor Bowdoin street. Liberal wages for first
class girl. References required lO-l
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TOOK SEVEN HEATS
And Two Days to Settle the Pacing
Race at Mystic Park.

Boston, September 1O.-The Mystic Park
races today resulted:
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WANTED.

UANTED-Clean store floors, Offices and
w cleaning of all kinds; work warranted to
suit. Call or address s. j. CHAPMAN, rear 81
Cleaves street, City. IL
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be moved IRON place to place with the small
est imaginable physical effort. The carved
bedstead was fitted with wheels, which did
not touch the ground. and levers so placed
as to be within reach of person lying within
it. The tables were each supported at one end
only by one strong column, fixed TO a heavy
base set on broad rollers, so that the board
could be run across he'd or a lounge with
the greatest case. There was but one chair
made like ordinary chairs; the rest were so
constructed that the least motion of the oc-
cupant must be accompanied bv corre-
spending change OF position OF the back and
arms, and some OF them bore curious re-
semblance to.a surgeons operating table,
having attachments of silver plated metal at
many points, of which the object was not
Immediately evident. Before a closed door
Il sort OF wheeled conveyance, partaking of
the nature of chair and OF perambulator,
stood upon polished rails, which disappeared
under the door itself, showing that the thing
was intended to be moved from one room to
another i'll u certain way aud in fixed line
The rails, had the door been opened, would
have been seen to descend upon the
other side by gentle inclined plane
into the center OF huge marble
basin, ana the contrivance thus made it
possible to wheel a person irto bath and
out again without necessitating the slightest
effort or change of position in the body. In
the bedroom the windows were arranged so
that the light and air could be regulated to
a nicely. The walls were covered with fine
basket work, apparently adapted in panels;
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motionless under his garment as beneath
heavy white pail He could not be less
than 100 years old, but how much older
than that ne might really be, it was impossi-
BILE to say. What might be called the
waxen period had set in, and the high color
less features seemed to be modelled in that
soft, semi-transparent material. The time
had come when the stern burrows of age had
broken up into countless minutely traced
lines, so close and fine as to seem part of
the texture of the skin, mere shsdings,
evenly distributed throughout, and no longer
affecting the expression of the face as the
deep wrinkles had done in former DAYS; at
threescore and ten, at iourscore, and even at
80 years. The century that had passed had
taken with it its marks and scars, leaving
the great features in their original purity Of
design, lean. smooth and clearly defined.
That last change in living man is rare
enough, but when once seen is not to be for
gotten. There is something in the faces of
the very, very old which hardly suggests
age at all, but rather the vague possibility
of returning prime. Only the hands tell
the tale, with their huge, shining, feshless
Joints, their shadowy hollows, and their uu-
nltural yellow nails.
The old man lay quite still. breathing
softly through his snowy beard. Unorna
came to his side. There was something of
wonder and admiration In her own eyes as
she stood there gazing upon the face which
other generations of men and women, all
long dead, had looked upon and known.
The secret of life and death was before her
each day when she entered that room, and
OIL the very verge of solution. The wisdom
hardly gained in many lands was striving
with all its concentrated power to preserve
that life; the rare and subtle gifts which she
herself possessed were daily exercised to
their full in the suggestion of vitality; the
most elaborate inventions of skilled mech
anicians were employed in reducing the
labor Of living to the lowest conceivable de-
gree of effort. The great experiment was be-
ing tried. What Keyork Arabian described
as the embalming OF a man still alive was
being attempted. And he lived. For years
they mad watched him and tended
him and looked critically for the
least signs Of a diminution or augmenta-
tion of strength. They knew that he was
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a word for it; oculi putres, they said-eyes
rancid with expression. A kind of despair
came over me, to sit there helpless under all
these staring orbs, and be thus blocked in
corner of my cabin by this speechless
crowd; and kind of rage to think they
were beyond the reach of articulate COM
munication, like furred animals, or folk
born deaf, or the dwellers of some alien
planet.
To cross the channel is, for boy of II, to
change heavens; to cross the Allan tic, for
man of "a, is hardly to modify his diet. But
was now escaped out of the shadow of the
Roman empire, under whose toppling mon
uments we were all Graded, whose laws
and letters are on every hand of us, con-
straining and preventing. I was now to
see what men might be whose fathers never
studied Virgil, had never been conquered
by Caesar and never been ruled by the wis
dom of Gaius or Papinian. By the same
step had journeyed forth out of that COM
Portable zone of kindred languages, where
the curse of Babel is so easy to be reme
died; and my fellow creatures sat before me
dumb, like images. Methought, in my
travels, all human relation was to be ex-
cluded; and when 1 returned home (for
in those days still projected my return) 1
should have but dipped into picture book
without a text. Nay, and / even ques-
toned if my travels should be much pro-
longed; perhaps they were destined to a
speedy end: perhaps my subsequent friend,
Kauanui, whom l remarked there, sitting
silent with the rest, for a man of some au-
thority, might leap up with an ear-splitting
signal, the ship be carried with rush, and
the ships company butchered for the table,
There could be nothing more natural than
these apprehensions, nor anything more
groundless. In my experience of the islands,
l had never again so menacing a reception;
were l to meet with such to-day, 1 should be
more alarmed and tenfold more SURPRISED.
Tine majority of Polynesians are easy folk to
get in touch with, frank, fond of notice,
greedy of the least affection, like amiable,
fawning dogs; and even with the Marques
ans, so recently and so imperfectly redeemed
from blood-boltered barbarism, all were to
become our intimates, and one, at least, was
to mourn sincerely our departure.
The lmpediment of tongues was one that
particularly overestimated. The languages
of Polynesia are easy to smatter, though
hard to speak with elegance. And they are
extremely similar, so that a person who has
tincture ot.one or two may risk, not with
out hope, an attempt upon the others.
Not only is Polynesian easy to smatter,
but Interpreters abound Missionaries,
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tlmental tourists are at one, and has in
splred some tasteful poetry. The period
certainly varies with the season; but here is
one case exactly noted. Although the dawn
was thus preparing by 4, the sun was not up
till 8; and it was $50 before we could dis
tinguish our expected islands from the
clouds on the horizon. Eight degrees south,
and the dav two hours a-coming.
The interval was passed on deck in the ST.
lence OF expectation, the customary thrill
OF Iandtall heightened by the strangeness OF
the shores that we were then approaching.
Slowly they took shape in the alternating
darkness. Ua-huna, piling up to a trun-
Gated summit, appeared the first upon the
starboard bow; almost abeam arose our des-
tination, Nuka-hiva, whelmed in cloud; and
betwIxt and to the southwark the first rays
OF the sun displayed the needles of Ua-pu.
These pricked about the line of the horizon:
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though to abandon her intention, hesitateds
and then, with an impatient frown, opened
the door and went in. She passed through
small, well-lighted vestibule, and entered
the room beyond.
The apartment was furnished with luxury,
but stranger would have received an oddly
disquieting impression of the whole at a first
glance. There was everything in the place
which is considered necessary for bedroom,
and everything was perfect of its kind, spot
less and dustless, and carefully arranged in
order. But almost everything was of an un-
usual and unfamiliar shape, as though de-
signed for some especial reason to remain in
equilibrium in any possible position. and 10
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hamlet, quite out OF reach OF any tourist,
have met the same plain and dlgn1hed nos
pitality.
I have mentioned the distasteful behavior
of our earliest visitors, but the great major
ity of Polynesians are excellently hammered;
however, the Marquesan stands apart, annoy
ing and attractive, wild, shy and refined. II
you make him present he affects to forget
it, and it must be offered him again at his
going; a pretty formality I have found
nowhere else A hint will get rid of any one
or any number; they are so tiercely proud
and modest; while many of the more lovable
but blunter islanders crowd upon stranger,
and can be no more driven off than flies. A
slight or an insult the Marquesan seems
never to forget. was one day talking by
the wavside with my friend Hoka, when L
perceived his eyes suddenly to flash and his
stature to swell. A white horseman was
coming down the mountain, and as he
passed. and while he paused to exchange
salutations with myself, Hoka was still
staring and ruffling like game cock. 1t
was a Corsican who had years before called
him cochon sauvage-cocon chauvage, as
Hoka mispronounced it.
With people as nice and so touchy, it was
scarce to be supposed that our company of
greenhorns should not blunder into offenses.
Hoka, on one of his visits, fell suddenly in
brooding silence, and presently after left
the ship with cold formality. When he took
me back into favor he adroitly and pointedly
explained the nature of my ofense: 1 had
asked him to sell cocoanuts; and in Hoka' s
view articles of food were things that a gen.
tleman should give, not sell; or at least that
he should not t-seIl to any friend. On another
occasion gave my boats crew a luncheon of
chocolate and biscuits. 1 had sinned, 1
could never learn how, against some point
Of observance; and, though I was dryly
thanked. my offerings were left upon the
beach.
But our worst mistake was slight we put
on Toma, Hoka's adaptive father. and in his
own eyes the rightful chief of Anaho. In the
first place, we did not call upon him, as per-
haps we should, in his fine new European
house. the only one in the hamlet. In the
second, when we came ashore upon visit to
his rival, Taipi-kikino, it was Toma whom
we saw standing at the head of the beach, a
magnificent figure of man, magnifcently
tattooed; and 1t was of Toma that we asked
our question: "Where is the chief?'
"What chief" cried Toma, and turned
his back on the blasphemers. Nor did he
forgive u.s. Hoka came and went with us
daily; but alone, believe, of all the coun-
tryside, neither Toma nor his wife set
foot on board the Casco. The temptation
resisted it is hard for a European to COM