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The Portland daily press., 1891-10-12
The tCedthef TO-DAY
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The Uedthef TO-DAY
Is likely to be
fair and cooler.
PORTLAND. Oct 10, 1891.
T\O the visitors who
Il are coming to
Portland his
week we extend the hear
tiest sort of a welcome.
We would like you to un-
derstand that a visit to this
store does not entail an
obligation to buy. We'd
like you to feel that Owen,
Moore & Co.'S is zone of
the sights of the city, to
miss which your trip would
be incomplete and unfn-
ished. Wed like you to
know more about us and
become more familiar with
the store and our methods
of doing business. Our
assistants are instructed to
give the same courteous
attention to lockers as to
buyers, and everything
that can be thought of
will be done to increase
your. favorable opinion of
the store and what is in it.
The week will be a big
bargain time, of course,
that is what Merchants
week is for, you know.
Each of the twenty-six big
departments here will have
special attention-catcher
prepared especially for
you, and it is likely to be
something you will want.
Whether you buy it or not,
it is sure to set you think
ing, and the thinking may
result in making you our
customer sometime.
OWEN, MOORE & CO.
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To whom Does It Belong?

Tug Salem picked up yesterday afternoon
mast and sail apparently belonging to one
oil the Hampton boats used by fishermen,
The Portland daily press., 1891-10-12

Not one In twenty are free from some
little ailment caused by inaction Oh tne hVer' ose
Carter's Little Liver Pills. The result VIII 10
pleasant surprise. They give positive rellef.
a.tso d&w1w
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the HEALTH OF PORTLAND.
Secretary Bursess's Last Monthly
Report.

The following is the report Of the health
of Portland compiled by Secretary Burgess
for the past four weeks:
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Probably your grandmother when a child, knew
and used Johnson's Anodyne Liniment.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TO-DAY.

ADJUSTMENTS.
Portland theatre.
Congress square church Organ recital.
FOURTH PAGE.
owen. Moore & Co.
J. NJ. Dyer & Co., Congress street.
Rines Brothers.
Standard Clothing Co.
Haskell & Jones.
BENJAMIN Shaw, zeal estate.
To let-House.
Notice is hereby given.
Lost-Gun barrels
Grand Trunk railway-ExcursIon.
For sale-Flower pots.
AUCTION SALES
+. o. Bailey & Co.
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246 MIDDLE STREET,
Manson c. G.Larrabee.
AUTUMN NOVELTIES
- IN
Dress Goods.

speciaI,ies for This Week.
SO inch Trlcot Flannel,
IL I.2 Cents Yard.
% pieces Double Fold Dress suItlngs Plaids,
stripes, Plain and Novelties. These are regular
20 cent quality, this week
I2I.2 Cents YARD.
rs pieces Scotch Dress PlaIds Cheeks aud
Ssrlpe suitlngs, also large line OF French
fiannels. In Mixtures and stripes. These vary in
width from 36 to 40 inches, and are being sold at
S11a and 90 cents yard. This week they will be
put on our Bargain Counter, 246 Middle street,
25 Cents Yard.
We are quite aware that Dress FlanneIs have
not been so desirable during the summer season,
put Is there anything better for a seryiceable
School Dress or suit than Dress Flannel? This
FIannels. in Mixtures, Medium, Light and Dark
Gray, Medium, Light Brown Mixtures, and Blue
Mixture, at an unheard Of price,
30 Gents Yard.
We limit the number Of yards. We do not want
10 give the benefit to our competitors.
The last case Of the Halt Wool Danish Cloth
VIII be put on sale this week at
9 Cents Yard.
Those who were disappointed in not nnding
all the shades in that Cancels Hair Suiting last
Monday, will find a full line on sale this week,
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80 Cents Yard.
The same quality has never been sold in any
retail store in the State less than 80 cts.
From the auction sale last week in New York.
for spot cash, we bought several lots Of Novelty
Dress Goods. on which we shall make auction
prices this week. Novelty Dress Suitings which
have been selling for so and 621k cents, Auction
Price
80 Cents Yard.
25 pieces OF French Novelty Homespuns and
goods this season and sold for 621h and rs cts
Come early and examine the quality.
so Cents Yard.
BLACK GR0S GRAIN SILKS,
There VIII positively not be more that two
pieces OF each number of these silks sold this
week at these prices as that closes the entire lot
LOTT; 2s inch Black Gros Grain SILK, regu-
lar s1.50 quality, for
81 I.2 Cents Yard.
LOT 2 Is24 inch Black Gros Grain SILK, act
ually worth s1.75, at
% l.2 Cents Yard.
LOT 8. One lot Black Gros Grain SILK at
30 Cents Yard.
Did you ever know Black Gros Grain SILK to be
SOLO az this price at any other place than 246
Middle street? Come to-day.
Special Lots OF Colored FaIlle franchise silks
in 81 New FAN Shades.
LOT l.. "a inches. wide, s1.s5 quality, Middle
Street Price this week
9S Cents Yard.
LOT 2. Colored FaIlle Francaise, 20 inches
| wide, actual value s1.75, this week
$I.29 per Yard.
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Ladies' Shoulder Capes.

We have a fine line Of these goods In the Real
Eur, limitations, Sea1 Pushes and Astrachan
Cloth.
One special lot Of Black Fur Capes, lined with
Satin, full size.
$500 Each.
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Almost any style you could ask for I'm Chlldren's
gloaks, Gretchens, listers with Capes, Hall
Plalds and Checks, OF very pretty designs, sizes
TO 10 years
At Our Popular Middle Street Prices.
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Eoaa 6hENT-Detached story brick house No.
rano,.. gray street, with thorough and extensive
redn outside and and In Just completed IFS now
EAShaDBe street. 12-l
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The same quality has never been sold In any
retail store In the State less than 80 cts.
From the auction sale last week in New York,
for spot cash, we bought several lots Of Novelty
Dress Goods. on which we shall make auction
prices this week. Novelty Dress Sultings which
have been selling for 90 and 621z cents, Auction
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MARRIAGES.

Beecham's Pills cure bilious and nervous ills
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Shawl Department..

We have large variety In STYLES Of Beaver,
CamePs Hair and Wool Shawls.
One lot Of Beaver shawls at $3.50 each.
Beaver shawls at $3.50, $50, 500, 600, TOO
and $50.
HImalaya shawls, $780, TOO and 500
Wool shawls from 81. % up to 7.5o.
Beaver shawls In jacquard effects, new and
elegant designs.
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80 Cents Yard.

Those who were disappointed in not finding
all the shades In that Cancels Hair Suiting last
Monday, will find a full line on sale this week
corner OF Cross and Middle Streets 240, at
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30 Cents Yard.

20 pieces OF French Novelty Homespuns and
Snow Flake Novelties. These were all new
goods this season and sold for 621z and rs cts.
Come early and examine the quality.
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The Death Rate.
The number of deaths in the city for
last week was 16 from the following
causes:
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Beds In Different Countries.

In the tropics men sleep in hammocks
OF upon mats of grass. The East Indian
unrolls his light, portable charpoy or
mattress, which in the morning is again
rolled together and carried away by him.
The japanese lie upon mating with o
stiff, uncomfortable wooden neck-rest.
The Chinese use low bedsteads, often
elaborately carved, and supporting only
mats or coverlids.
A popularity of the German bed is its
shortness; bedsides that, it frequently
consists in part of large down pillow
or upper mattress, which spreads over
the person, and usually answers the pur-
pose of all the other bedclothing COM
bined.
In England the old four posted bed
stead is still the pride of the nation, but
the iron or brass bedstead is fast be-
coming universal. The English beds
are the the largest beds in the world.
The ancient Greeks or Romans had
their beds supported on frames, but not
fiat like ours.
The Egyptians had couch Of pecu-
liar shape, more like an old-fasbioned
easy-chair, with hollow back and seat.
-Neao York Journal.
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The Sioux Blanket Courtship.

The blanket is the Sioux great refuge
when he is not actively engaged on the
warpath or in the chase. Only for the
difference of stature it would be difficult
to tell young man from squaw at GER
tain times. Both wear the blanket
drawn over their heads, and to casual
observer, there is not much difference in
the portion of costume that shows be-
meath the wrap" :.
When a young brave and pretty squaw
begin to court the blanket always hides
their bushes, such as they are. have
frequently seen couple, with blanket
over their heads, practicing the tender
art in manner that would have made
Romeo and Juliet envious. There is
nothing whatever of the immodest about
the proceeding, but, for lack of gas-lit
parlor and comfortable sofa, they are
obliged to exhibit their tenderness in
public with truly rural simplicity. After
the blanket stage is passed the brave
generally purchases his bride for so many
ponies, "paid" to her sires and they 60
on with their housekeeping in q very
practical manner. The squaws do nearly
all the heavy work, and the warriors do
the heavy sitting around, except when
their is fighting to be done or game to
be killed. The women seem greatly at
tached to their lords and will bewail
them bitterly when they die or fall in
battle. Their cries and lamentations
are terrible to listen to, and often last
for several days and nights Chicago
Herald.
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Onyx in Missouri.

When water containing lime in solu-
tion drips into cave upon the ores OF
metals it forms with them chemical
combination and produces the exquisite
translucent substance we call Mexican
ONYX. If the metallic oxide or ore is
gold then rich purple veins and splotches
appear through the oynx; if silver, then
the coloring is yellow; if copper, green;
if iron, red. Zinz aud arsenic produce
white.
Ages ago King Solomon mined this
rare onyx in Africa. The deposits there
became exhausted. It was found in,
modern times at Oberstein, in Germany.
The deposits there failed, too, however,
Then the most beautiful decorative ma.
terial known to man cropped out IN
America, but in Mexico, as if scornlng
Yankee republic. For some years Mexi-
CO has supplied the world, the splendid
shining blocks of precious value beng
cut from the quarries by hand by Indians.
Machinery has not been applied to it
hitherto to any great extent, because the
ubstance is so fragile that any force
more violent than that of deft Indian
fingers wonld split it and ruin it.
Now, however, futtcr OF interest has
been aroused by the announcement that
in Missouri, in Crawford County, in the
Ozark range, inexhaustiole quarries of
onyx have just been discovered within
seventy miles OF St. Louis. This great
news. Of course we do not want the
magnificent Mexican onyx to become so
plentiful that it Will be vulgarized and
applied to all manner of base uses, but it
would be delightful if this material
should become so cheap that persons of
MODERATE means can have little of it in
their homes. Thus every good thing is
found sooner or later in the United
States.-JeUelers' Catalogue.
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Row HOrseflesh Tastes.

Physically horseAcsh may be distin-
tinguished from beef or mutton by its
appearanc. 1t is coarser in the grain
than beef. In this respect it resembles
bull beef more than any other. 1t is
darker in color aud looks more moist
than beef. 1t has peculiar sweetness
of taste. Its flavor is generally con-
sidered to be half way between the
flavor, of beef and game; it is something
like the flavor of hare.
One reason why horseaesh is as q rule
darker in color than beef is that horses
which are polc-axed, or which have died
from injury, disease or old age, are not
properly bled and dressed by the slaugh-
terer. 1t is, however, by its fat that
horsefesh is most easily distinguished.
The fat of horsehesh is not generally
mixed with the lean.
1t is yellow in color. It looks more
moist than the fat of beef. It soon melts
and soon becomes rancid. Consequent
ly, unless rapid sale is effected or the
fat removed, an advanced price must be
charged in order to secure the butcher
from loss of unsold meat.
Lastly, horseaesh can be distinguished
from beef by its chemical characteristics,
and it is in this way that it may be rccog-
nized when mixed with other substances.
Who can tell, except the chemist, what
are the component parts of sausage,
polony or saveloya Or who can tell by
taste what those parts area We do
not judge by taste; we judge by favor,
and in the making of favor-to use Sam
Weller's phrase-''It's the seasoning as
does it. ."-NineteenM Century.
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Cutting the Diamond.

The operation of cutting the diamond
comprises three phases; splitting, shaw
ing and polishing. All crystals possess
the quality of easily cracking in certain
directions; in the diamond there are
three principal and very distinct
directions, without counting several
secondary ones, and cleavers or splitters
call these the "threads" of the stone.
A good workman always knows where
to find the thread, and this is how he
does it.: The diamond to be cleaved is
fixed in a convenient position at the end
of q short stick by means of cement;
then to another baton, and by the same
process, is fastened sharp diamond.
Taking in his right hand the baton bear
ing the sharp point, and in his left the
one that holds the diamond to be cleaYen,
he rests them at the middle on a box
which is firmly screwed down to his
table, thus turning sort of lever. He
then rubs the two against each other
until the sharp stone has made a notch
in the other stone. He uses three blades,
one after the other. With the first he
makes groove, which with the second
knife is regularized, and with the third
finished off in a specific manner. Then
holding with his left hand the baton on
which is the stone to be split, and at the
same time o steel knife, the edge of
which is fixed in the "thread," he hits
the knife clean blow with small iron
bar, and the diamond is separated exactly
at the point desired. This "cleavage,"
as it is called, is not always necessary;
still, lapidaries have recourse to it when
they wish to take from the crystal its
defective particles, or to give it con-
venient shape for after operations
Commercial Aduertiser.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
Cheek is often mistaken for coura,

Cheek is often mistaken for courage.
A man is not made rich by what he
can't lose.
No man can know any more truth thar
he will live.
Selfshness is only another name for
the spirit of murder.
Truth makes men gentle. Theory
makes them bigoted.
If there wasn't any opposition, there
couldn't be any progress.
Perhaps no greater wrong can be done
to any man than to misjudge him.
The meaner some men are, the more
angelic they want their wives to be.
The biggest coward you can find any
where is the man who is afraid to do
right.
The man who never gives away any
thing, cheats himself out of good deal
of satisfaction.
There isn't much charitable work done
in this world by people who do not be-
lieve in another.
1t is hard for the man who has just
eaten a good dinner to realize that any
body else can be hungry.
Texperience teaches anything,i it teaches
that no man can live for himself, and
do himself any good by doing it.
One of the easiest things for some
people to do, is to persuade themselves
that it isn't their duty to do anything
indianapolis (Ina.) Rana's Horn.
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Rabbit Wool.

To look at the rabbit as wool-bearing
animal and source of annual profit is q
point of view that will certainly be novel
to most people, but student OF the sub
iect declares that the rabbit is valuable
when thus regarded. He yields wool,
it is said, softer and finer than that OF
sheep, and, besides its beauty, it is be.
lieved to have the valuable attribute OF
bcnefting or curing rheumatism. Small
as he is, his growth is vigorous, and 1t is
estimated that the amount of wool pro-
duced by rabbit in year, as he can be
combed several times and the wool grows
again, is worth about five francs, which
is as much rs the wool of lamb would
fetch. London Standard.
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THE UNOPENED LETTER.

There was carriage waiting at the
door, and the servant had just announced
to Miss Hamilton that gentleman had
called to see her.
81 will DC down in a moment" an
swered CHEEKY, blue-cyed girl, as she
slipped an unopened letter into her
pocket. She had recognized the hand
writing as the postman handed it to her.
The letter was from young college
senior in the quiet New England town,
at home for his vacation-Arthur Els
worth, manly fellow, whom she had
known and admired from childhood.
And now Arthur's brother, Elmer Ellis
worth, was waiting to take her for a.
drive. The latter was the handsomer Of
the two, possibly, with his fine form and
dark eyes. He also was in the last year
of college life.
After pleasant greetings the young
people started in the bright September
morning for the proposed ride. Who
that has driven through Lexington and
Woburu, past Mystic Pond, will ever
forget the quiet country roads, the his
toric associations, the variety of wooded
hills and pretty valleysG Now the two
school friends talked of the present with
its ioy, and the future with its hopes, of
the books they had studied and the plans
they had made. Now they gathered
polden-rod, and listened to the song of
the birds in the braciug air. 1t was q
fitting time to say what had long been in
Elmer's heart, that, sometime, when his
profession had been entered upon, she
would be the woman whom he wished to
make his wife.
It was hard matter for her to decide.
Both brothers had been dear to her, per-
haps Arthur cspecially-and both were
noble and worthy. Elmer had never
spoken to her of marriage; and now
Elmer had told her of his love, and that
she could make him happy. Had Arthur
spoken first, perhaps, he9 heart would
have more warmly responded; but in the
beauty of that autumn morning, with
the hopeful, earnest young nan by her
side, she gave her promise to be his
wife.
As soon as she reached her home, she
ran up stairs, hastily threw eff her wraps,
and remembered the letter in her pocket.
Opening it she read:
Chow many times have wanted to
tell you that I loved you! How often
have the words died on my lips! But
now before 60 back to college, I must
ask if you can return that love, and
sometime be mine2"
Alasl that she had not opened the let
ter sooner. She could not tell Arthur
that she had preferred him to Elmer;
that were disloyalty to the man whom she
had promised to wed. She could only
say that she was already betrothed to his
brother. She married whom she had
promised. Both men became prominent
in the history of New England-our lit
tie story is true. One went through life
unmarried. His letter was opened too
late.-Sarah K. Bolton, in Neu England
Magazine.
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In reading over the literary items of
the week, found not much to interest
me, until my eye caught sight of IN
article headed "Jenks' Dream" Imag-
inc my surprise to find it ended up with
O recommendation to use DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. Nevertheless, being
a great sufferer from sick headache, I
determined to try them, and, to my great
Joy, found prompt relief, and by their
protracted use, a complete immunity
from such attacks. Pierce's Pellets
often cure sick headache in an hour.
They are gently laxative or actively
cathartic, according to size of dose.
AS q pleasant laxative, take one each
night on retiring. For adults, four act
as an active, yet painless, cathartic.
Cause no gripping or sickness. Best
Liver Pill ever made. Smallest, Cheap
est, Easiest to take. For Constipation,
Indigestion and Bilious Attacks, they
have no equal.
Manufactured ut the Chemical Labo-
ratory Of the WORLDS DIsPENsARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, No. 663 Main
Street, Buffalo, n. Y.
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The Coldest In Yenrs.

So the weather prophets sesm to predict
that this winter will Be, and by our. expert
eace thus far can we doubt but that they
must know thing or two ABOUT the matter?
Well, be this as It may, all will concede that
a winter with clear, cold, bracing atmos phere
is certainly more conducive to health than
those so mild Of the past few years.
Warm clothing is most ential; even that
sometimes fails to protect Us from the friend
ly embrace of Jack Frost" WIN, no doubt,
will be very vigorous in his endeavors to let
us know that he has come to stay awhile.
ouaintance be forgot" should he become too
familiar; checkmate him as always have
done. No frost-bites for me II you please; the
moment feel his icy breath upon fingers
or toes nip his little scheme in the bud by
bathing freely with some Of that grand old
pain reIiever called DIR. Tubias's Venetian Lin;
fment. You can just try it for yourselves and
find out too. that what tell You Is the trn q,
and nothing but the truth; something well 10
heri
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rRrScEssEs As OLD MAIDS.

Numbers Of foolish heads are wagging
over q perfectly ridiculous rumor to the
effect that the Princesses Victoria and
Maud or Wales have stamped their little
feet and made the startling announce
ment that they will never marry. Even
If they ever said anything so silly-and
even princesses cannot be always wise
it is certainly mistake to suppose that
their mother would encourage them in
any such very whimsical notion. The
only possible and very insufficient
ground for the stupid report is that
Princess Maud, in her pretty, petulant
way, may have been heard to express the
opinion that she would never marry un.
less she really cared for the intended.
In that, we may be sure, the Princess Of
;Wales-fondest and kindest of mothers
would support her, but anything be.
yond that may be dismissed as sheer
nonsense.-Ladp's Pictorial.
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A Week of Old Time Southern Sport.

Amid the vast forest of Long Leaf Pines, in
the high sand hills Of North Carolina, large
number of Northern people have congregated
from year to year for the past six years on &C
count Of the great benefit to be derived by
until quite village has bsen built. consisting
of six hotels and number OF boarding houses.
The place has been named Southern Pines:
The surrounding forest abounds in game OF
all kinds, and during the first week in Febru.
DRY q programme has been arranged Tor
great week OF sport for the visitors and e1cnr-
sionists; low round trip rates Of fare from the
North hayine been arranged. From Boston
SO, New York sl49o, Baltimore $3.50. There
will be deer hunt, g. fox chase, quail hunt,
q squirrel hunt, rabbit chase, g Wild turkey
hunt and a coon hunt Also a Southern bar
becue, O 'possum supper and An old time plan
tation dance by colored naeu and women who
will introduce some Of their pl antatton songs.
The excursiontsts can 60 BY either Merchants
8 Miners steamers from boston, Old. Dom5n-
ion steamers from New York on January 81,
or Bay Line steamers from Baltimore on Feb
ruary3. Those who attend will NO d9n6t. en-: en-:
10Y the sport, for 1t will be 30 much different
to any Of the Northern sport that tbs odGty
of it, II nothing else. will make IT interesting
A HKw saoo0OO British battle-ship, the
Hood "a heinp hnilt at Chatham
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A Remarkable jump.

One Of the most remarkable jumps on
record is that Of Peter Rohr, black
smith who, in fit of insanity, jumped
from fifth-story window in New York
City. The distance was sixty feet.
Peter struck showcase window and a
man sleeping off drunk. He was picked
up stunned but uninjured. L. Cincinnati
Engl$y.