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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-16

Joliet. He held this position until 1883,
when he became general superintend-
ent of the Pennsylvania industrial re-
formatory at Huntington, Pa. In May.
1891, Mayor Washburne rendered him
the position of chief of police of Chi
cago, which he accepted after giving
the offer thoughtful consideration and
securing the assurance that he would
be permitted to organize and manage
the police force without interference
from any authority whatsoever.
The criminals of the country were
not pleased with the appointment,
They knew that while Maj. McClaugh-
nv was the kindest and most consider
ate of prison officials, he was also a
firm believer in the majesty of law, and
would consequently keep close eye
on their doings. Most of the danger
Gus lawbreakers of the United States
are personally known to the major.
While warden of the Joliet prison he
introduced the famous Bertillon sys-
TEN of identifying criminals; and no
crook who has ever been an inmate of
the institutions managed by him has the
slightest chance of escape should he be
found at his old tricks.
At the present time Maj. McClaughry
is perfecting arrangements for the pro-
lection of visitors to the worlds fair.
He has entered into correspondence
with the heads of the police depart
ments of every country in Europe for
the purpose of securing photographs
and personal descriptions of notorious
crooks, piclzpocl1ets and confidence
men, who are sure to find .heir way to
Chicago in 1898. Detectives represent
ing the various nations will be imported
to keep an eye on their law-breal1ing
country1nen. Other measures of equal
Importance have been laid before his
superiors by the major, and havc re-
ceived official sanction. 1t is safe to
say, therefore, that the interests of
worlds fair visitors will be amply pro-
tected, and that they will not be sub
jected to the annoyance experienced
by many Americans who were robbed
right and left while visiting the exposi-
tions at Paris and Vienna.
The regular force of officers under
command of the chief Of police consists
of patrolmen in uniform and detectives.
Fully two-thirds of the 2, 100 men are on
duty at night; the balance is detailed to
guard the street crossings in the bust
ness district, attend to police court du-
ties and assist special officers in the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-16

All Americans are cogniZant of Scan
lan's sad story-of how he struggled des-
perately against the lapses of a failing
brain and tried to hold the place he had
won upon the stage; Of how he fought
the creeping demon of decay, and while
yet in physical prime succu1nbed to a
mysterious and incurable malady; but
few probably have noted the fact that
De Maupassant's case resembles that of
the stricken actor in many respects.
Like Scanlan he practically had his life
before him; like Scanlan he enjoyed
the passing hour" and like Scanlan he
has written fms to his career. Yet it is
only ten years ago that the critics prophe-
sled for both the highest triumphs at
tainable in the callings to which they
had devoted themselves.
Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupas-
SAINT was born in 1850 and on attaining
manhood surveyed the. field of human
endeavor and decided to become an
author. He went to Flaubert, and Sc
cured that masters literary patronage.
Under this skillful direction he served
an arduous apprenticeship of seven
years. During that time he studied
books, human nature and the construc-
ton of ingenious plots. Not until 1880
was he allowed to offer any of his pro-
auctions to the publishers or the pub
lie. Then, at the age Of thirty, he made
his first attempt to win popular favor
as novelist, and it proved successful.
Not long afterward he took rank in the
same class with such men as lola, Dau-
det and Bourget. Paris wanted to know
him, and he wanted to know Paris. He
was fine looking fellow, with brown,
wavy hair, magnificent eyes, splendid
physique, the bearing of soldier, and
charms of manner and conversation that
won the hearts of women. Welcomed
alike by society and Bohemia, he 'swent
the pace" now spending twenty-four
hours on new novel, and again deyot-
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the Great met untlInely death, when
Socrates the henpecked drank the hem
lock, when Caesar the epileptic fell at
the foot of Pompey's statue and when
Antony the infatuated refused to sur
vive the disaster of Actium.
These men strove to rule, and reached
such heights that they thought them
selves more powerful than the tabled
deities of Olympus. Then extravaganza
took the place of sense, and the sequence
was disaster. In later times the same
conditions produced Charles XII of
Sweden, the ''nad1nan of the north"
who failed, and Frederick the Great of
Prussia, who succeeded. 1t may be con-
tended regarding the latter, that none
but sane man could so hold his own
against world in arms, but his private
and literary eccentricities weigh so
largely in the balance of judgment that,
had he been defeated and his kingdom
wiped out, he would today figure in his
tory as "a crazy monarch who lost his
heritage. Even more recently the case
of Ludwig Of Bavaria has attracted at
tention. Undoubtedly he was .'melan-
choly mad, yet without his royal patron
age Richard Wagner never could have
developed his wonderful dreams and
demonstrated the ideas on which are
based the music of the future"
But inherited power, wide dominion
and the thirst of conquest are not the
only things that shake the throne Of rea-
son. 1t was Alexander Pope, himself
tortured by deformity and the mighty
ambitions of a restless mind, who wrote:
Great wit to madness nearly is allied.
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
And in connection with these lines
one naturally thinks Of DIR. Samuel John
son, lifelong sufferer from transmitted
physical maladies; of Chatterton, the boy
poet and suicide; of Oliver Goldsmith,
whose brief existence was at once farce
and tragedy; of Richard Brinsley Sheri-
dan. the favorite of princes and the prey
of bailifs; of William Cowper, whose lu-
macy was like the genial cloud that tenn
pers a summer sun; of Coleridge, who
found his demon of dementia in the lau-
danum bottle: of De Quincy, similarly
cursed, and of Charles Lamb, that master
of prose style, who fought off his own
fantasies that he might safeguard the
well beloved sister who could not keep
the fend of recurrent frenzy at bay.
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There, too, was Voltaire, the literary
meteor of a century, coward and a
hero, a dissembler and a doubter, a man
who fawned at the feet of kings and de-
fed the Deity and his wrath, a miser-
able groveler and a lofty genius, who left
larger stamp upon his age than all the
captains and monarchs who went a-feld
to slay; and Byron, maddened to all
sorts of excuses because he had vanity
and club foot; and the elder Bulwer,
known to the public as playwright and
novelist, and to his wife as a person of
the most extraordinary moods.
America, too, has furnished its quota
of gifted minds that have crossed I'M
hidden the mysterious border line Of
sanity and taken on the fantastic extrav-
agance of i'll directed genius. All the
world has mourned for Edgar Allan
Poe, commiserated his unhappy life and
regretted his early and shameful death;
has reveled in his romances and Won
dered at his mastery of verse. Old New
Workers in particular will remember
kindred genius of less wide repute, Nc
Donald Clarke, known as the ''the mad
poet" His life was gentle and his daily
promenade of Broadway was one of the
attractions to that famous thoroughfare.
He devoted his pen to praising the bellies
of the town. ellis oddities were all
amiable; he had no vices, always pre-
served a gentility of department. and
was regular attendant at Grace
church."
Yet, like Poe, he was picked up in the
street one night destitute and demented.
A policeman put him in cell; he turned
on the water from faucet and was
found drowned at daylight Then his
fellow citizens gave him a magnificent
funeral. He liessin Greenwood beneath
a handsome monument, on which the
sole inscription is, Poor Mcdonald
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ing long and sleepless days to fashion
or pleasure. The strain proved too
great, A while ago he ceased to be
thrice jolly fellow" as his friends
called him. He grew morose, then lost
his reason, and recently attempted sui
eide with revolver and razor. Now,
at the age Of forty-on he is classed as
dangerous lunatic and can never more
know sanity or freedom.
Ambition to excel and excessive study,
eliminating in temporary arrangement,
Ire the probable explanations Of Law
.ence Irving's rash act. He is son Of
denry Irving, and hoped by intense ap-
plcation and unrenitting endeavor to
rival his fathers great fame. But, fail
ing to win popular approval at the start,
he became discouraged, and the other
night was found lying in his room at q
Belfast hotel shot through the body.
Youth and good constitution are in
his favor and he may live to regain his
mental balance and to resume his hon
orable struggle for name and place on
the stage.
Some day, when science and surgery
have charted, mapped and classified the
human brain with accuracy, we may
learn why civilization and lunacy go
hand in hand. Among savages the mad
man is rare. and his affection is regarded
as an endowment of supernatural power
His rawlings are received as prophecies
and his violence as the visible vengeance
of an offended deity. But with educa-
ton, apparent comfort and material
progress, the malady. under various
guises, spreads and grows formidable.
That is fact established by the Oldest
Of written records. Those who from
the calm pinnacle of observation wit
messed and chronicled the doings OF the
"earth shakers" set them down as
"doomed by the GODS and thought
their assertions proved when Alexander
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-16
Gent. S Night Shirts.

lot of Gent Night Shirts, trimmed
on front with red and blue cord; sizes IA
to is , at soc each.
1 lot of Gent IS Night Shirts, collar,
cuffs, and front trimmed with red or
blue feather braid, made of the best
quality Fidelity Cotton, sec each, all
sizes.
lot of Cents Night Shirts, made of
extra fine cambria, with silk embroid-
cred fronts, in white and colors; collar
and cuffs trimmed in white and colors,
at CSC each; sizes IA to Is. This is the
best bargain in the lot.
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WHITE SHIRTS

and to add to it another stock means a
great cut on the prices of our regular
stock in order to reduce it.
lot CENTS White Shirts, sizes u to
IA, csc each.
Our regular Csc Shirt, soc; or two
Shirts for 75c.
During this sale, in order to more
thoroughly introduce the Senator and
Bonanza Shirts, we shall give to every
purchaser of six shirts, either Senator or
Bonanza one extra shirt free.
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aFls0Fn
HVHanSOE1 c. IaFraDee.
The following goods have selected from the Bankrupt
Stock for great Clearance Sale
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.

In Bankrupt purchased last week, lot of
LADIES' COTTON UNDERWEAR,
which ito
never heado
goods made the manufacturers Many of
quality
aboutOne hal fof
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GENIUS And MADNESS.
Clasps Hands in Some Mysterious
BOrderland Of the Brain.


Tragedies OF Lunacy That Have Recent
ly Shocked Those Who Read and Those
Who Love the stage-some Remarka-
Bile Cases Recalled.
A French lunatic asylum, a New York
madhouse and an Irish hospital are to-
day mute witnesses to three tragedies of
genius.
At a maison de sante near Cannes
Guy de Maupassant will rave out the re-
mainder of his life. AT Bloomingdale
Actor Seaman will sing his sweet songs
and imagine himself the favorite of the
footlights until oblivion shall extinguish
the dim candle Of imbecility, and at Bel
fast, it is to be hoped, Lawrence Irving
will struggle back to sanity and health.
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Lot of White Lawn Aprons, trimmed
with lace, Sc. each.
Lot of Corset Covers, all sizes, &c.
each.
On Our csc. Cotton Underwear Counter
will be found:
Ladies Drawers with four tucks and
torchon lace; Ladies' Chemise; extra
fine quality of Corset Covers, V shaped,
square and high necks nicely trimmed;
Ladies' Short Shirts with ruffies and two
tucks, all at csc. each.
On Our SOC. Cotton Underwear Counter
will be found:
Ladies' Night Robes, Corset Covers,
Drawers, Chemise and all shirts made of a
fine quality of cotton and nicely trimmed.
On Our soc. Cotton Underwear Counter
will be found:
Ladies' Mother Hubbard Night Robes,
styles, tucked Jokes, high shoulders,
cambria ruffles on neck and sleeves, full
size, soc. Ladies' Drawers, assorted
styles, extra fine cotton, with hem-stiched
and hamburg ruffies, soc. Ladies'
Understands with cluster tuck, ruffies,
and tucks on shirts also hamburg trim
ming, soc. Ladies' Corset Covers, as
sorted styles, trimmed with fine lace,
embroidery, hamburg and tucks, Y shap-
ed, square and high necks. Every gar
ment perfectly made and finished. These
are the greatest bargains in this stock.
On our 69c. Counter
will be found
Ladies' Night Robes, Shirts, Drawers,
Chemise, Corset Covers, Infants Slips,
Aprons, which would be considered great
bargains at $780, Every garment per-
fectly made and warranted to fit.
Bankrupt Sale price G9c. Each.
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FREEPORT STEAMBOAT co.

kSTEAMER PHANTOM will leave Portland
- Pier for Freeport touching at Falmouth
F0reside, CousenS'. Great Chebeague and Little
johns Island and VOLTS Point, at o. m daily
Sundays excepted). RETURNING, will leave
South Freeport at a. M, touching at all land
ings, commencing Monday Nov. O. 1891.
sept2dtf H. B. SOULE, Manager.
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| On Our Use, $1.0O, and $1.25
Counters
You will find some of the best quality
materials, and finest workmanship ever
found in Ladies' Underwear. Some of
the goods are slightly crushed but this
does not injure the fit or wear; they will
be closed out at about SOC. on a dollar.
This stock with our own stock of Aprons
may be termed a Jobber's stock. We
shall make divided price on the lot
ranging in prices from Sc. each to soc.
each, the finest made. Also line of
Hamburgs at Bankrupt prices.
Ladies', Misses and Chi|dren's Ro-
siery, Underwear and Corsets.
lot Ladies' White Swiss Ribbed I'm
dervests, sizes from to S, regular SOC
quality, NC each.
lot of Ladies' Gray Swiss Ribbed I'm
dervests, regular 623c quality, csc each.
lot of Ladies' Scarlet Wool Vests and
Pants, in all sizes, CSC each.
There are many other small lots of
Ladies', Misses and Childrens Under
wear, which will be sold for less than
half price, in order to close out the
stock.
There are quantities of Hosiery in this
stock, including Cashmere, Lisle Thread
and Cotton, in fancy colors and black.
Child1en's All Wool Hose, lOc pair.
Children's All Wool Leggins in colors,
He pair.
One lot of Health Corsets, the regular
$1.25 quality, White and Drab, CSC.
Sizes 10, %, %, 80.
We shall sell what there are of the cele-
brated G. H. c. Corsets with Spinal Sup
porter, for 39c per pair. is, 10, 20.
All sizes, best quality, of the Coutil
Corsets, Long Waist, Silk Embroidered,
White and Drab, 59c.
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Gent. Hose.

1 lot of Gent IS 25c Hose at E3c pair.
A number OF broken lots of Gents
Hose, in different qualities, on which we
shall make ridiculously low prices, in
order to close out the first day.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-04-05
Upper Columbia steamers.

PAsco, April 5.-Capt. W.P. Gray OF
this city, well known to old residents
as pilot and captain on the river, has
been for some time looking up the pos
sibilities of again operating a line OF
steamboats, on the upper river. The
Record says: eve understand that he
has secured a conditional lease of the
steamboats, belonging to the Northern
Pacific that are now lying at Pasco, and
it is their intention to begin running as
soon as there are indications that a boat
| can make expenses. The placing cf
line of boats on the river is II II
4 vital Importance to the Pc latter {
the river, and the PEE -opie all alon
titled in raising ,sp,e would be jus
lishment of t, subsidy for the estab
] t;a,, 80 tbc -le line for the accommoda
amd s,oa th =. W residents along the columb;,
anu 1l-e developments of the border;n.
aseafds. There are thousands of acres - =
good ruit land lying idle that with ~.
modern methods of irrigation can e -
mace valuable if afforded better mar.
ke1lng facilities. A competing line .,
transportation will increase the area -
.iiied wheat land; and we hope soon - :,
be he aDie to mention the fact that a Inc os
ooats are being operated on the the r;yer { ,a.e Oh
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Coming Events.

ST. Paul, April 5.-AWhen the Great
Northern openes its Pacific extension,
which will be some time before Chicago
is checked up with worlds fair traffic.
said prominent railroader, ''the trans
continentaps action in the northwest
will undergo radical change. Rates
will be less stable and in any event
lower, while the fight for traffic will
have a sectional effect as well. The
Northern Pacific and Union Pacific, as
far as the business between st. Paul
and the coast is concerned have had their
own way, as the line via the boundary
at Winnipeg and Vancouver had been
round about in character. Yellowstone
Park and other excursion traffic has also
been confined to one or two lines, giving
an advantage not obtainable under
sharp competition. But watch the fur
fly when the Great Northern has driven
home the gold spike. Hills line will
make its infiuence~felt everywhere, even
by the Atchison. Hill is as aggressive
as he is shrewd, and he is not building
railroads for his health.'' 3
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A Belle of Virginia.

RICHMOND, April Airs. Phillips
Haxall, one of the most beautiful of
southern women, and the recognized
leader of society in Virginia, died at
O'Clock this morning, after an illness of
an hour. She was regarded as in per-
feet health few days ago, when there
were symptoms of heart trouble, which
is said to have been the cause of the sud-
den termination of her life. Before her
marriage Mrs. Haxall was Miss Mary
Triplett, and reigned as the belle of Vir-
ginia. She was the innocent cause, sew
eral years ago, of a duel that resulted in
the killing of John Mordecai by Capt.
Page Mccarthy, now editor of the Ma
tional Democrat in Washington. Soon
after that occurrence she married Capt.
Haxall.
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A RICH REGION TO BE REACHED.
A Tributary Stretch of the Columbia in
Aid of an Open River.
ooNcEsrnArEs FROM IDLE MINES.
District---An Ell Dorado Long
Neglected.

Rock ISLAND, WASH, March 5.-The
prospects for an active season in the
well known, but long neglected Okano-
gan mines, is better this spring than
ever before since the discovery of hidden
treasures in that extensive, but only
partly prospected region. The steamer
City of Ellensburgh, built almost wholly
for the trade of the Okanogan river,
which is navigable for a distance of 165
miles above this point, but which has
heretofore met with poor success, and
was finally tied up because of the death
of her owner, recently passed into the
hands of J. r. Peters and NJ. S. Dana
her, who have thoroughly overhauled
her, and fitted her for passenger and
freight service, and will this week start
her out upon the trade with flattering
hope of success. She is to run regularly
from this place, on the Columbia, with
proper connections arranged for, and
will penetrate the wilderness of the Okan-
ogan to the head of navigation, having
assurances of at least ten tons daily of
concentrates from one mill alone in the
Ruby district, at rates which will set
the wheels of operation actively to work
in other districts near enough to make
the margin ofprefits sufficient to develop
the whole district. The great Wenat-
chee region will also be tapped, and
lively times may be expected. If the
cascades and dalies of the middle Col
umbia are open as predicted within two
years, it will not be day too soon to
meet the requirements of vast traffic,
which may be expected from this new
source. Until such times, however, the
more expensive rail route must be en-
ployed, and this will ofnecessity convert
the business by way of the Northern Pa
cific to- points on Puget sound. 1t is
such small beginnings as this, that ap-
peal most loudly for an open river, and
the cheering intelligence that the river
is to be SO soon opened inspires the peo-
pie to renewed energies to meet the new
order of things which may reasonably
be expected. The new owners of the
City of Ellensburgh are experienced
steam boat men, familiar with the Col
umbia river and it's tributaries, and that
their ventures may lead TO prosperity
throughout the whole country is the
wish of all,-present railway combiua-
! tions excepted.
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work of Jack Frost.

JACKSON, Miss, April 5.-Dr. Mackay,
president of the state horticultural So
ciety, Gays that peaches, tomatoes,
Strawberries, beans and other early veg
etables are gone up. The Doctor, who
is known over the south as the straw
berry king of Mississippi, is perhaps the
best posted horticulturist in this
country. He has many acres of peaches,
and more than 100 acres in straw berries,
but says the early crop is killed beyond
doubt or peradventure. 1t is simply i'm
possible to estimate the damage done by
the cold snap. All market gardeners
have lost most of their tomato plants in
the cold frame, but fortunately have ex-
ira plants to replace. DR.. Mackay lost
$4,000 plants, but has 10000 more in his
hot-bed.
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virginIa Ladies. Protest.

WHEELING, w. Va, April A move
ment has been on foot among the
,woman's worlds fair clubs of this state
which may seriously embarrass the eff
forts Of the West Virginia women COM
missioners to secure creditable show
ing of women's work from this state.
The club at Fairmont, one of the princi-
pal points in the state, has resolved, Sin
view of the likelihood that the gates OF
the Columbian Exposition will be kept
open Sunday, and that liquor will be
sold on the grounds" to suspend indef-
nitely. The woman's clubs in many
other places in the state will take sim
liar action.
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Tried Drueged oran~..

CARTHAGE, Mo-, April 5.-As ae,ao.
ICY Icy was taking Ralph Ralston to the
penitentiary under sentence for connta. ...e
,.i1ing' the nervy prisoner tried to effso+
- -. escape Dy securing some oranges in
- nnicn ne managed to inject mornb;na
aisef which he gave them to the ofs;car ,.,,s
slsea ne would eat them and 90 to
@ consn nn,,,n Inc plot leaked out before beino
and did not win. De'n
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Not at all Danreron.

DoENos AYREs, April 4.-The exc;ta
nient IN consequence of the rad;cal =.
emp. to overthrow the goyernment =
thas; ,sslng The decisive action of the an
.noflsles In ordering large detacbnan.s
.;, ~ 1ne CITY put damper on the revolt
tion. No further trouble is sant;c;nsta,
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Panama Station Rn.a

nrinaial hAsAnA, April 4.-culebra, one of the
principal stations of the canal a;'-,s .ne
niles above here, has been partially a. m'
blocLs an ncendiary fire. Seventeen
ohy J,Uoks, including the canteen. sbons ms
.aurea ana canal barracks, were burnad
anYo,vlng a loss of $4,000. A negro
causat iootlng, was stabbed, and Chi.
naman was burned to death