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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-06
RECKLESS CRITICISM.

Viewed in the most favorable light the
resolution adopted by the Grand Lodge
of Good Templars in regard to Judge
Peters reflects diseredit upon the order.
Of course it is proper enough for pub
lie body to criticize any action of a pub
lie official, and to condemn it if it an
pears to be worthy of condemnation, and
it's author along with it. If the Good
Templars had made a careful inquiry in
regard to the charges against Judge
Peters and found them sustained then
there would have been no ground for
complaint of their severe arraignments of
him, But that is what they did not do.
The arraignment of him is confessedly
founded on common report" for the
language of the resolution is, "And we
brand with every expression of contempt
the action of the judge who presided at
the last criminal term of the supreme
court held in Bangor in February, 1892.
whereby, as is commonly reported, he per-
mltted criminals to escape the penalty
pronounced upon them by law" A news
paper that had perpetrated such an as
assault upon judge as that would prob
ably have had libel suit on it's hands, and
IT 1T had had no better justification to offer
than is offered here, namely, that it was
commonly reported it would have had
to pay heavy damages. Yet the injury
inflicted upon the judge by the Good
Templars by this resolution was far
greater, than could have been
inflicted by the mere ex-
preston Of newspaper opinion. Near
~ week has passed since this resolution
was spread broadcast over the state,
during which time there have been state
ments and counter-statements and yet it
does not yet appear to be certain what
these common reports were on the
strength of which Judge Peters was
pilloried. The most tangible thing in
this direction comes from a committee of
Good Templars who allege that Judge
Peters would not try cases, but after
"quiet conversation with the defend
ants let them off with nominal fine.
Yet further on the committee say that
although the friends of the prohibitory
law might be inclined to criticise the in
adequate fines imposed they do not
question the legal discretion of the
judge" So far as we can see the only
allegation Of the committee is that the
judge did not exercise his legal discretion
in away that was in their opinion wise.
This appears to be rather slender foun-
dation for the charge that Criminals
were allowed to escape the penalty pro-
nounced upon them by law" and if that
is all there was in the common reports
than the resolution was unjustifed even
upon the assumption that those reports
were true. But an appeal to the docket
seems to show that there is no ground j
for any complaint whatever of Judge
Peters action.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-06

The endowment orders seem to have
won notable victory in the NIassachu-
sets House, having secured the substi-
tuition by large majority of the Powers
bill which was drawn in their interest for
the bill proposed by the opposition. The
Boston Transcript calls it a shameless
and dangerous bill'' and thinks Massa-
chusetts has committed itself by this
legislation to delusion as dangerous
and foolish as the silver craze of the
West and South.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-06
THE ALMY CASE.

The Amy case seems to be in a condi-
ton where the astute lawyer will not be
at a loss for technical points on which to
appeal to the courts for further delay,
and perhaps for the notification of the
sentence. 1t will be remembered that
Almy admitted his guilt at his first ar
raignment, and that it was left to the
court to determine the degree of his
crime. Evidence was heard on that
point, and the court decided that he was
guilty of murder in the first degree. the
penalty of which in the State of New
Hampshire is death. Subsequently
Chief Justice Doe sentenced him to be
hanged some time in 1892. When SEN
tence was pronounced Amy was not in
court, and for this reason it has been
claimed that his sentence was illegal.
This week, however, Almy's counsel ap-
piled to the court for re-opening of the
case, on the ground that new evidence
had been discovered tending to show
that the crime was not premeditated and
therefore was not murder in the first de-
gree. The court held, after hearing the
evidence, that it was not sufficient, de-
clared Almy guilty of murder in the first
degree and sentenced him to be hanged
in May, 1893. Almy was in court this
time. Though no distinct acknowledge
ment was made by the court that the
sentencing of Almy IN his absence was
illegal, the action of the court in treating
the new hearing as an independent one
and sentencing the prisoner to be hanged
at q different time from that set at the
previous hearing seems to be tanta-
mount to such an admission. Will AL
my's counsel accept this second trial and
sentence as legal and conclusive, or will
they resist? AS some of his attorneys
have already began to throw out intima-
tons that Almy has twice been put in
jeopardy of his life, which is in con-
fict with the constitution, it seems most
likely that there is to be fight. When
is remembered that none of the uncer-
tainties which now envelope this case
would have existed had Almy been
brought into court when first sentenced
it is not strange that there should be
some criticism of the judge who was re-
sponsible for this omission.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-06

THE BRITISH JouRNEYMAN.
A Life of Poverty with a Finale in the Poor
House.

"The English journeyman has an un-
attractive life,' says Reuben Gold
Thwaites in an article on 'sVillage Life
in Old England in the May New Eng
land Magazine, Starting out to his
work, perhaps miles away, at six o'clock
in the summer morning, with heavy
basket of tools and food over his shout
der, he often works until eight abso-
lutely breakfastless; then half an hour
is allowed him for his cherries meal of
cold tea and bread and fat bacon; at
noon he has an hour or less. for what
dinner he has brought with him; and at
five o'clock ends his days task, he some
times taking light lunch in the middle
of the afternoon. AS with the farm la
borers, rheumatism early seeks him for
a victim, and at sixty he is quite apt to
be a useless old man with "a crick in his
back burden to himself and his rela-
tives. Earning at his best and in the
height of busy season, not to exceed
one dollar and twenty-five cents per day
with long stretches of either sickness
or no work, invariably large family on
his hands, possibly drink habit, which
iHdkeS every Spare penny Durn IN his
pocket, and the cost of provisions not on
the whole below that prevalent in
America for the same quality of supplies,
he neither accumulates savings nor ap-
parently wishes to. Let him endeavor
to rise above his fellows or furnish more
comfortably his little cottage-which the
landlords agent keeps so neatly without,
but whose interior is apt to be cherries
enough,-he would in many communi-
ties be scofed at and Stunned at the ale
house, as man too proud for that state
of life unto which it hath pleased God to
call him. Then, again, the union will
days are over, and he looks forward with with
complacency, or shall we say with sullen
indifference, to ending his days as pau
per. The picture is gloomy enough, but
Merry England is filed with such, if you
care to look for them.''
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-06
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-06

Before the session of Congress ends an
effort will be made to pass law giving
aliens the right of appeal to the United
States courts, when any of their rights
guaranteed by treaties have been vio-
lated. This legislation is for the pur-
pose of covering such cases as that of
the New Orleans mob, where our govern
ment was compelled to acknowledge
that it could do nothing to redress the
grievances of the Italians for lack Of
jurisdiction.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-06

If the Democrats of this State place in
their platform, as they mediate, a reso-
luton in favor Of the re-submission of
the Prohibition amendment, and the Re
publicans, as they surely will, adopt a
resolution opposing such resubmission
we wonder what the party which nomin-
ated candidates at Bangor yesterday will
do? VIII they vote for third candidates
and thus help the Democrats elect for
Governor and legislators men in favor of
the repeal of the prohibitory law?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-06
IHE PRESS.
FRIDAY, MAY 6.

The saloon men of New York are
happy again, having, it is said, discovered
clause in an old law under which they
can keep open their shops on Sunday.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-06

Aliens SarsaparIlIa Is for sale by
all dealers for SOC. per bottle. or six for
$a.so. 1t cannot fairly be sold by any dealer
for less. Beware of cheap limitations. We
guarantee Aliens SarsaparilIa only when 1t
is sold for full price.
The Alien Sayscporfifa Co.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-06-17
The Power of the Rivers.

The possibility of utilizing the current
of our rivers to furnish power on shore
has often been a subject of specula ton.
There are few minds which have not rec
ognized the immense benefits that would
accrue from such an achievement il it
were possitle; but the majority, both
lay and expert, have been accustomed to
accept the difficulties presented by the
unreliability of the flow, the variation of
the height Of the rivers and the slight
fall as practically insuperable from the
engineering point of view.
An expert who refuses to be tied up
by precedent, however, declares his be-
lief that these difficulties can be over
come. 1t says that it willlbe done half
a century hence, and the generation Of
fifty years from now will stand amazed
at the wastefulness OF this day. The
methods by which he would harness the
river-air tight drums on water wheels
communicating their power to dynamos
which generate electricity to be distrib-
uted for power and light all over the
vicinity-do not appear to be as inher-
emily improbable as those by which any
of the inventions of the past were made
successful did before their success was
demonstrated by actual practice.
Without waiting for the grand chill
dren of the next generation to achieve
this advance, it is safeto say that the en-
ginecr who can make it work in the
present day will confer an immense ben
eft. 1t will create zone of cheap cleo
trio power and light along the bank of
every river and stream,with a living cur
rent, and revolutionze,a great many OF
the existing industrial institutions. II is
hard TO draw limit to the changes that
might not take place-when this power
is successfully utilized.
But we fear that any invention OF this
sort will have to depend for its success
on adyentitious aid to preventive shrink
age OF streams ia summer To a beggarly
eighteen inches or two feet in depth
with no current worth speaking off,
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-06-17
Pittlng Snakes Against Rabbits.

A good deal OF attention, writes a
South Australian correspondent, has been
bestowed upon the subject OF rabbit de.
strnction, and SOME astounding sugges-
tious have been received from various
parts OF the world. The hst suggestion
Is that number OF carpet snakes should
be let loose among the rabbits, which
would, il Is asserted, be speedily
eaten up by the reptiles. When from
live feet 20 siN feet long they are able 20
cat two oF three rabbits AZ a meal, but
when tllteen oF sixteen feet long they
ace able b eat six rabbits, Anticipating
inquhy as to what would happen II tho
snakes became more numerous than rah-
bits, he proposes that carpet snakes ot
oae kind only should b. used, aud after
eating al ihe rabbits the suakes would
ghan proceed 10 cat each other, - lioslOn
Transcript.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-06-17

The savage islanders Of the south
Pacific believe that the world is . cocoa,
nuI she'll OF enormous dimensions, at the
top Of which Is a single apeTalure coin
munleating slth the upper air, where
human beings dwell, Al the very hot
tom OF this imaginary she'll Is a stem
gradually taperius 10 palat, which rep
reseuts the beginning 0f all things This
polat Is a spirit o. demon without human
form, whose name Is ''lloot OF Al Exist
enee" liy hlm the enlle fabric OF eFea
tlon i sustained,
IN the Interior Of lhe eae0anui she'll,
at its yoFy hatipm, lives female demon,
- uaros ls the space iato which she i
crowded that ahe s obliged 10 sil fof,
sYeF sHh knees ani ehla lauehlug lIef
name - ffhe Nory liesinaing," aad
lfam heg are sprung naaeTons spirits.
tAeY lnhahll ase iiaefeal aoofs, lala
Rhieh ihe great onooaaat IL divided.
From certain 81 these splllti mankiai j.
1essenlei The slandefs, rfg4f Ing
themselves as tie onll fe4i mea al
saHeH, wegs lagaeflf seeasl9latd q -
Rall sitaagels as evil spirits IA lhe gllise
Il humanity. ahem lAs1 klllel shea
lAss could, ellaflag lhen = saeglness.
Aasllnsioa STAT
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-06-17

The remarkable progress OF women en-.
gagged in business Affairs is instructivcly
set forth ia the Massachusetts, State
Bureau Of Labor statistics. According
to the figures there presented IN 1885,
there were only about 1870 women
engaged in industrial pursuits, Now
there are more than 500, 900. Two
thirds OF these working women are under
thirty years OF age, and inasmuch as this
proportion has been maintained during
the half dozen years, 1t seems to indicate
that marriage constantly tends to deplete
the ranks, "Such being the fact, " com.
ments the New York News ''thele need
be little fear that the industrial indie
pendenoe Of the geutler sex will result in
An increase Of old maids"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-06-17
EVERYBODY'S GARDEN.

All along the wayside is everybody's gar
den!
There the wild rose blossoms through the
summer days;
Bounded by field fences, and ever stretch
ing onward.
1t is Gods own garden. For it give Him
praise.
'Tis gay with goldenrod,
There blooming grasses nod,
And sunaowers, small and yellow turn ever
in to the sun;
Quaint darkey-heads are there,
And daisies wild and fair
In everybody's garden, each flowers the
loveliest onei
All along the wayside is everybody's gar
Come out and gather poses; the very air
is sweet.
Come out, with hearts of gladness ye big
and little children,
Into our Fathers garden, made for our
strolling feet.
The fitting butterfly,
The fragrant winds that sigh,
The tiny clouds that hover above us in the
blue,
The birds song high and clear,
Make heaven draw more near;
In everybody's garden the world once more
is new!
William z. Gladwin, in Christian Union
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-06-17

1t is not very intreqCent occurrence
Once-A-Week, for infuriated prisoners
to attempt to assault the presiding magis-
trate. Mr.. Montagu Williams, who sits
in one Of the East End Courts, often has
boots thrown at him, and on one occasion
he received severe blow in the face from
such a missile. The habit seems to be
spreading. The other week the news
papers reported case in which disap.
pointed litigant kicked in open court his
own lawyer, for which he may have had
some excuse, aud assaulted the reporters,
for which there could be no iustiGca-
tiop.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-06-17

A man aam Il John lIarashaw PEE.
formed tho ,ghout Hagland sider he
high sounding title OF Msnsleur d1uiIe.
giving practical eXdbill, ns of hAng lng
from the gallovs, la Is performance
he relied loT security 90 the strength o.
the muscles of hIi throat and neck alone,
lie had q ROPE with q aksd Kuog, aad
always passed both eads ai the loop up
behind one ear. The w..ole acg was "a
adfai'ly managed that ae prevented any
pressure oi the ropa apon the Nlndp pipe
% the iuguaf fsr, lle could ssea sass
tain weight at is0 peuada 10 Aldisloa
ia that oi bis osa body.
Ga three separate oosaslsls iia'nshas
mlamAuagrd tue fope and saaa became
unconscious, but aAs laek'ly resened
each llme. Ia lh0Anf, who wsole the
account, Yery lfaly says 4 saanot ha
doubted lhat as a. - - .satl1a ani
consciousness ais eppssrled, iiafnshas
passed through lha hole aFlaal ~ death
hl haaalag, AL III be i - peimlllel
a. teaaala hsaalaa unill actually deal i
9auld have pAsssl aai VI q slsnos sllh.
oai luilhel kaaAls.lgs Z IL salssgg. -
/ ndaA L,neel.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-06-17
A Successful Submarine Boat.

George G. Baker has don onstrdtel
that water eau be navlgated at any rea'
sonable depth below the surface. A final
test OF his submarine boat, upon which
he has been at work since December
1890, was made in the River Rouge, i've
miles from Detroit, aud was entirely sat
isiactory.
The river is only sixteen feet deep,
which admits of the boat being sub
merged two feet. 1t was run up aud
down aud across the stream several
times, turning. sinking and rising at the
pilots pleasure. The boat is cigar.
shaped, made Of oak, the shell being
forty feet long, fourteen feet high, nine
feet wide amidship and seven inches
thick. The motive power is storage
battery OF 260 cells, which is believed 10
be the largest ever made. This also gen
crates light. The course OF the boat Is
directed By pilot who stands in a
small coming tower which Is provide /
with lookout holes. Il is necessary, IA
taking bearings, 10 tise 10 the surface,
but Ia so doing only a few inches OF the
top Of the tower appears above the sur
face. With the coming tower hsfmelr
eally sealed, the interior Of the boat con
tains 1900 eublc feet nt air, The wheels
are on each side, midway between how
aud stern aud one foo, below the center
line. The boat Is alsei and lowered Dy
letting water Into the hold aud by de
tleoting the side wheels. M, llake1 Is
eonAdent that this will eventually reyo,
luilonize present methods Of naval gar
lafe.-si. Louis hepublle.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-06-17
A Wonderfully Dramatic Scene.

Benjamin Brewster, afterwards attor-
ney- general of the United States, was
some years ago the central figure in a
wonderfully dramatic scene in Phila-
de,phia court. Mr.. Brewster's face, it
will be remembered, was frightfully
SCARED by an accident in his youth. He
was extremely sensitive cf his facial mis-
fortune, but never referred to it himself
nor did any of his thousands of friends
ever ask him its cause. The trial referred
to was bitterly contested affair, and
Brewster at every point got so much the
best of the opposing counsel that his
leading adversary was in u white heat.
In denouncing the railroad company this
lawyer with his voice tremulous with
anger, exclaimed, "This grasping cor
poration is as dark, devious and scarri-
fed in its methods as is the face of its
chief attorney aud henchman, Benjamin
Brewster!" This violent outburst of rage
and cruel invective was followed by
breathless stiffness in the crowded court
room that was painful. hundreds of
plying eyes were riveted ON the poor
Scared face of Brewster, expecting to see
him spring from his chair and catch his
heartless adversary by the throat. Mr..
Brewster slowly arose and spoke some
thing like this to the court: "Your
honor, in all my career rs lawyer have
never dealt in personalities; nor did /
ever feel called upon to explain the cause
of my physical misfortune, but will do
so now. When boy-and my mother,
God bless her! said was a pretty boy
when a little boy, while playing around
an open fire one day with little sister
just beginning to toddle, she fell into the
roaring flames. l rushed to her rescue,
pulled her out before she was seriously
hurt, and fell into the fire myself. When
they took me out of the Goals my face
was as black as that mans heart" The
last sentence was spoken in voice whose
rage was that of lion. 1t had an elec.
trcal effect, and the applause that greeted
it was superb, but in an instant turned to
the most comtemptuous Kisses directed at
the lawyer who had so basely insulted
Mr.. Brewster. That lawyers practice in
Philadelphia afterward dwindled to such
insigniticance that he had to leave the
city for a new field. Boston Transcript.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-06-17

Within three years passenger rate on
the railroad across the Isthmus of Pana-
ma have been reduced to ten and five
cents mile for first and second class
tickets. Up to that time the charge for
passenger transportation on the Panama
Railroad was the highest in the world,
being S25 in American gold for first class
and $40 in gold for second class passen-
gers between Panama and Colon, or
about fifty cents and twenty cents mile,
respectively.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-06-17

Now that rance culture has begun
seriously to engage the attention of
planters in the Tropics, it is interesting
to learn on the authority of foreign
journal that rance fiber, under great
hydraulic pressure, may be made to as
sumo the compactness of steel. 1t is as
serted that when so prepared it will be
particularly serviceabie for steam pipes,
as it will not be subject to contraction or
expansion and also will not rust.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-06-17

The unfortunate Nhn has uQt caught a
neciaTlna Ia lis best stages has tha slm
mit ul epeHeaa pleasures Yet e. aspire
O., II wants 90 ho perfectly ripe, and
lheu siluapi 90 shafel luii little in
ihe suu, The mah eho got ot she seu.
lruce that pdnuhilass gho lanl Cauil
haYe ma Is b,lief fruit thln tse siaR
berrY hH eeflslnli 10 ueypF ild, Hsunli
be ashamed 81 himself could b. oacu
gei h|fe el 4 perfectly maaipalatg
aeeilflae. ihefa i dith ulii Il IIaliiH
lArm ~ aas funi 4l far cYlNila. iaH
sHn0ih skIa b. aifaefff A., faIs insnt
tfsl HsHe Hal ~ H4H HA4 A4l rHl
lHsinl tbs fu.rsIla "a ih0 piHH aui
Hsallg l.lam afaaas lamNasslE pfpti
iblg. alil lff hls haaa nu U.s Hsa44ilae
slsp. tlssasa Il AsH.alg,