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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02

with crystal passamenterie into the
bargain. 1t was as rich and costly as
it was ugly, and, to the donors
mind, exactly the thing the girl
needed to wear at swell din
ner party with dancing after it
two weeks in prospect. The victim
of it thought otherwise. The invita-
ton was the first that had come to her
from, the really swagger set. If she did
not do credit to it it would be also the
last. To go in that impossible gown
was to foredoom herself to social fail
ure. What could she be but dumb
fright under the oppression of that rain
bow horror? Yet not to wear it might
cost her eventually solid quarter miI-
lion. 1t was a case of her face or her
fortune-and she did not care to sacri-
fee either. There was nothing for it
but diplomacy. Taking her corsage in
both hands, she stripped off every
ivestige of the pink. and with it orna-
Imented a loose white cashmere house
robe, where the effect was not half bad.
This she sent to her aunt as birthday
gift, intimating that. only the elder
,lady's magnificent complexion could
bear such rich colors. Then the green
remnant was yelled and swathed in
clouds of pink and white tulle, layer
upon layer, with crystal drops here
and there and trails of water
grass and lilies on the corsage and
about the waist. Thus gowned,
with an emerald pendant on her bare
white throat, green slippers, green
stockings, a white ara green fan, the
young woman was voted an undine
with soul, and her social success as
lsured. But it was a narrow escape-a
narrowing experience-one too that she
feared was to be indefinitely repeated.
There were three bTocades in her aunt's
wardrobe that it seemed certain the
Christmas just past would precipitate
on her devoted head. A line in fash
ion letter saved hef. 1t read: 'Old bro
cades are more stylish than new, now
that that texture is again in fashion"
BY consequence at the eleventh hour
the aunt bought for her niece a bon
bonniere as big as your two hands, all
over gilt and flowers, and sent for her
modiste to see what were the possible
ties of the gowns she could not bring
herself to part with.
For evening gowns, especially in soft
-clinging stuffs, the Greek gown, or it's
modification, the empire, is more and
more used as the winter advances. Miss
Violet Defric, the young English elocu-
zionist. who is as good to look at as to
listen to, very much affects both styles.
But she wears long sleeves-close set
ting, but very much wrinlSled Indeed,
as before written. long sleeves are
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02
Summary Execution.

A despotic government has its adyan.
Eages, and among them is the easy collec-
lion of debt, provided the ruler is
friendly to the creditor AHMED Yefyk
Pasha, q Turkish statesman. was once
governor of Broussa, and this story is
told of his paternal rule: ,o
A rich, man had Judgment pronounced
against him in favor of poor man. The
latter, owing to the brides of the rich
man. could not obtain execution. and
complained to Ahmed Vefyk. After
hearing the case, Ahmed saw the debtor
riding up to the Konak upon beautiful
Arab horse. He ordered the creditor to
sit down, called messenger and whis-
pered to him.
The debtor entered the room, and was
surprised at the exceptional cordiality of
the pasta, who invited him to sit down,
TO take coffee and to converse. Pres
emily, when he rose to leave, the pasha
pressed him to remain, and kept him
more than an hour, until, indeed, a mes
senger entered the room and placed a
small bag on the table before Ahmed.
When the debtor next rose, Ahmed
took the bag from the table and gave it
to him, stating: "This is yours. You
owed so much to this poor man, i have
sold your horse, paid him, and this is the
balance belonging to you. youths
Companion.
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She Hadn't Made Up Her MIND.

Rev DR.. Fay was summoned to the
door one night by woman, who an
nonnced that she had come to be mar
ried. She was invited into the parlor
and two men entered with her, one seat.
ing himself on either side of her. When
the minister approached to perform the
marriage service he inquired. (Which is
the groom?"
"Well," replied the bride, ~ haven't
decided yet. thought | wouldn't till
they both stood up"
The shocked and astonished clergyman
refused to proceed with the service, and
his callers went elsewhere. -Brooklyn
Eagle.
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tea, and the lady wore marvellous
gown of the softest camel's hair in one
of the art green shades. 1t had vel
vet yoke outlined by full plated
frill that was edged with jeweled
gallon, and somehow disappeared
under one arm. The same gallon
trimmed the skirt above band of the
velvet some four inches deep. About
her neck was one of the new lace falls
that drop straight down from deep
band and the pseudo flowers nestled a
bit to one side.
70 bark back to jewelry, I saw a
striking bracelet the other day that
commended itself to all who care to be
unique. Perhaps fifty strands of the
finest yellow gold chain, such as our
great-grandmothers wore so plentifully
with their watches, were slightly twist
ed about the arm and clasped on top
with deep red stone as big as a robins
egg, with diamonds the size of peas set
all around it. ELLEN OSBORN.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02
CHRISTMAS ECHOES.
FriIls Put On by the World Of
WOmankind.
For What We Gave and Received nm
Escaped Let Us Be Duly Thankful
"A Beautiful Diplomat-Gowns
q 10 Grecque ana pEmpire.
IcopTRIeHr, 1871

lcoPTRIeHT, 1871
Gift making is over, and all the world
duly thankful, large part of it that
the holiday bother is well ended, here
and there an individual for what has
not been received. This is notably the
case with a young woman much adj
dicted to artistic yearning and full of a
fine feeling for color. Though the best,
circles here receive her with open arms.
it is wholly because of her personal
charm, backed with substantial expec-
tationa Her family is good though not,
distinguished, and only comfortably en-
dowed with this worlds, goods. Her.
father claims cross of Knickerbocler
blood. Her mother comes of thrifty
trader folk, clean and honest, but
wholly unasthetic. There is childless
rich aunt-the mothers sister; widow
of a retired grocer, for whose gar
menting gorgeous is poor, pale
word. Fair, fat and fifty she revels
in big hats all over sky blue feathers,
in velvet gowns of green and
scarlet afaunt with white lace, in
brocades that would do admirably as
wall tapestries, in tea gowns calculated
to make self-respecting rainbow go
out of business. in bracelets and lockets
and chatelaines distinctly audible as
far as eye can reach. In fact the good
lady lives to be clothed. Style is her
fetish.
Notwithstanding she shows the fami-
~ thrift otherwise. The beauty, as her
namesake and prospective heiress, has
reasonable claim upon her generosity.
1t is one, though, that the young wom-
an most willingly valves. All her life
particularly at Christmas times-she
has been endowed with things that her
aunt bought, wore and laid aside the
season beforehand woe to the recipient
if she dares to leave them unworn.
Since she came out, two winters back,
they have been the nightmare of her
existence. Between tears and laughter
she told me of her struggles with one
particularly famboyant gown, a grass
green silk all betagged and befrilled
with vulgarly deep pink, and aglitter
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crinkled and embroidered in gold all
over the skirt. At foot there was a
border almost solidly covered with the
gold, from which long, graceful sprays
ran up almost to the wide pink
satin sash that was fastened directly
under the bust and fell in gold, fringed,
and almost to the bottom of the deep
train. Wide old-rose points, yellow
with age, fell away from the dimpled
neck that was innocent of jewels,
as were the perfect, gloveless arms and
hands. Indeed, her only ornament was
a big pale pink enamel orchid blossom
with a diamond heart and crusted with
diamond dew. worn at one side of the
waved Empire couture. She wore also
pink shoes, high-heeled, gold-wrought,
with double straps crossing sandalwise
over the instep; pale pink stockings
clicked with gold; and carried a huge
fan of white ostrich feathers, striped
with pink and mounted upon exquisite
~ carved ivory sticks. Her handker-
chief was of lace matching the fall AL
together it is very little wonder that the
lwearer was set down
1.-THE comet of shiny night
The beauty of ball."
( Because this beauty went beautifully
unjeweled, do not therefore set it down
that simplicity is the fashion. Never
before, perhaps, were gems and gold SO
well wrought,s so well worn, as at present.
Diamonds-always so favorite-are now
set in platinum, and so thiclzly placed
that you catch naught but their clear
splendor. New shapes are so varied
that it is idle to catalogue them; the
pictures give fair idea of some of the
newest and most choice A notable
tiara has five swallows in fight; in
another'a bird chases a bee through
branch of blossoms. Brooches
are. larger than for years past. saw
one that was mass of irregular
pearls set around largish diamond,
the whole quite as big as the palm of
your hand A leaf-shaped diamond,
one to be worn also as q pendant, was
bigger still, and had along with it long
earrings such as our grandmothers
wore. Canoes, too, are revived. But
nothing is quite so much in favor as
the enamel flowers that grow yearly
more perfect. | saw yesterday spray
of mignonette nesting amid the costly
lace below Vanderbilt throat, and not
till caught the CLEAN of diamonds on
what ought to have been the leaves did
realize that it grew in a workshop
not a garden. 1t was at an afternoon
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02
MISCELLANEOUS.
TO THE PUBLIC.

Intending purchasers of PoND's
EXTRACT cannot take too much pre-
caution to prevent substitution. Some
druggists, trading on the popularity Of
the great Family Remedy, attempt to
palm off other preparations, unscru-
pulously asserting them to be "the
same as or equal to- PoND's Ex-
TRACT, Indifferent to the deceit prac-
ticed upon and disappointment there
by caused to the purchaser, SO long
as larger profits accrue to themselves.
Always insist on having PONDS Ex-
TRACT. Take no other.
SOLD IN BOTTLES ONLY NEVER
BY MEASURE. Quality uniform.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02

have been great sufferer from catarrh for
over ten years; had it very bad could hardly
breathe. Some nights L could not sleep and
had to walk the floor. purchased Ely's Cream
Balm and en- using it freely, it is working a
cnre surely have advised several friends to
use it, and with happy results in every case. 1t
is the medicine above all others for catarrb, and
it is worth its weight in gold. 1 thank God
have found remedy can use with safety and
that does all that is claimed for it. It is curing
my deafness.-B. W. Sperry, Hartford, Conn.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02
WIT AND WISDOM.

No Money in In.
First Urchin-Didn't yer ladder vote at der
las election?
Second Urchin-Naw. He's disguised wild
dis here Australian system.
''Wot's de matter wild that?n
HE says faint no use bothering bout elections
wen no matter how votes is sellin' We can only
vote nct."-Sreet & Smiths Good News.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02

"Smithers used to be good novelist
before his baby was born"
GLOW did that affect his work.
"llis style was ruined by the books he
had toread the youngster. His last novel
began: What is this? This is our hero
Is he blond? Yes, he is blond, and
his name is William Wilkins. | do not
think William Wilkins isa pretty name;
do you? You do? Well. SO did Maud
Brompton. See the house with the green
shutters That is where Maud Brompton
lives with her aunt. HAVE you an auntY /"
What shame"-HaIper's.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02

quite feature OF the most swagger
evening gowns.
Contrariwise, she who has perfect
arms makes the most Of them. Witness
the picture in the empire frocls, whose
original appeared in it at one of the
SWEETEST functions Murray hill has
seen this winter. The material was
cream-pink China crepe, very deeply
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02

An Insulting Agent.
Chicago NIan-That ticket seller ought to be
discharged. He isn't fit for his position Why
sir, the fellow is insulting
Railroad 0fieer-Eh? Has he insulted you?
Chicago Man-Huh! / should say he had. |
asked for ticket to st. Louis, and he gave me
one good for only one way, just as if he thought
intended to live there-NeW York Weekly.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02
a COMMON SENSE Remenv.

In the matter of curatives what you want is
something that will do its work while you con-
tlnue to do yours-a remedy that will give you
no inconvenience nor interfere with your bust
ness. Such a remedy is ALLCocKs Porous
PLAsTERs. These plasters are not an expert
ment; they have been in use for over thirty
years, and their value has been attested by the
highest medical authorities, as well as by testi-
monials from those who have used them. They
require no. change of diet and are not affected
by wet or cold. Their action does not interfere
with labor or business; you can toll and yet be
cured while hard at work. They are so pure
that the youngest, the eldest the most delicate
person of either sex can use them with great
benefit.
Beware of limitations, and do not be deceived
by misrepresentation. Ask for ALLCocK's,
and let no solicitation or explanation induce
you to accept substitute.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02
Two bachelors as bachelors are wont, wer

Two bachelors as bachelors are wont, were
talking of getting married.
''Well' said one, IL want to get married but
Pm poor and haven't been able yet to find a
girl with money that will have me-"
"Aw, you make me tired" said the other.
What's the money got to do with it? What
you want is a Wife"
THAT'S all right, old man." protested the first
s'but you see We've got to have the necessities
before we proceed to the luxuries.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02

The UNION MUTUAL LIFEIN-
SURANCE COMPANY is now in the
forty-third year of its existence. 1t
five Millions Of Dollars to its po Sisy
holders and their beneficiaries and
possesses assets of more than six
Million Dollars and q large surplus
wherewith to meet maturing liabilities.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02
OF Interest TO borrowers.

OF Interest to Borrowers.
Wild Eyed Customer (wet to skin)-Can you
make an umbrella of tissue paper, with handle,
ribs and all, so that it win look like any other?
Maker-I can, sir, but it will cost you about
as much as
Customer-Don't care snap how much it
costs! want six. Here's an X. Send them
to my Office c. o. ID. if that does not pay for
them, and send 'em quick!
brushes out in the rain, soaked through, but
looking happy Chicago Tribune.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02

Ayers Sarsaparilla stops the nauseous dis
charges of catarrh, and cures the complaint.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02
CALIFORNIA, TEXAS AND MEXICO.

combining comfort, low rates, quick time, Pull
man sleeping cars. Call on or address f. f.
CURRIER, New England Agent Southern Pa
cifc Co., 1872 Washington ST., Boston, Mass.
jan19 cody
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02

Do not let your dealer painI off on you any
new remedy for colds, Insist on Dr.. Bulls
Cough Syrup or you will be disappointed. ' :
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02
Worth it, no Doubt.

Mrs Cumso (reading)- Senator Stanford pays
the professor Of philosophy in his new univer-
sity S4500a year, and the cook in his own
kitchen 5000 What do You think of that?
Cumso-rhe cook is probably good one.-
Philadelphia Times.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02
An Insulting Agent.

Success follows the use of Halls Hair Renewe
for grayness and badness.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02

Blankets SOC
1 Case 104 White Blankets, pair
goods
l Lot Id Heavy White Blankets worth 81
Lot IA White Blankets ought be sold
in
finest of borders usual pair
Case ia Salmon Coed
So
1 n
1 Case ia Dark only pair
lsua rice
1 Case 1874 Medium Gray pair
Light beautiful borders,
Small Lot California only
The Balance Blanket Lot
tive anda Popular Prices
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02

Ayers Cherry Pectoral for coughs and colds
Ask your druggist for Ayers Almanac.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02

Before placing your Life Insurance
in Companies outside the State OF
Maine, send to the UNION MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY for
pamphlets explanatory of its plans. and
for list of claims paid under the Maine
Non-Forfeiture Law. oct24e0dtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02

''The ,lse of 'Castoria is so universal and
its merits so well known that it seems work
OF supererogation to endorse it. Few are tho
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach"
CARLOS MARTIN, d. D.,
New York City.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02
j. r. L.IBBF'S
Grand Clearance Sale.
BL ANNE. = 8.

Rather than take them in stock We have Very Prices
Close Out the following Lots Rare chance for pOpreOrs
Hotels and Boarding Houses.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-02
MISCELLANEOUS.
for anfants and Children.

"Cestoria isso well adapted to children that
recommend itas superior to any prescription
known to me-" H. A. ARCHER, H. D.,
III So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, Ny.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-21

sites of consumers, with no disposition to
buy in advance of present needs have
apparently been the controlling motive.
The ex ports for the month of Novem-
ber, 1891, reached the unprecedented
sum of $1lO, ,OOO, 600, while the value of
imports was but $85, ass, 900. so that the
actual balance OF trade in single month
was over $45, ,OO0,O with the prospect
that during the current fiscal, year more
than onesthousand million dollars worth
of this country's products will be sent
abroad. The decline in the rates of for
eign exchange within the last week in
dicates larger shipments of gold from
abroad in the near future, adding to the
resources of the banks, already richer in
loanable money than ever before at this
season. With loanable funds so plenti-
full, the new year must open with an
dasy money market, and with this con-
eition so pronounced, it is a surprise
that such favorable business situation
has not already to a greater degree re-
f1ected the prosperity which these fig
ures indicate. This condition of business
is generally measured by the activity of
the railroads, which at present furnish
the mostsindisputable evidence of reviy
ing business, which we think sooner or
later must have favorable influence on
the wool market.
Inc value or imports OF raw wool Tor
the year 1891 is estimated in round fig
ures at $40 900 900 as against about $15,-
$50, 900 for the year. 1890 under the old
law, showing an increase of raw wool
imported under the increased duties of
the Mckinley bill over the previous
year of about S., $4,000.
This increase in the imports of wool,
Notwithstanding the increased duties,
was made necessary by the demand for
raw wool resulting from the increased
employment of American manufacturers
in supplying the deficiency caused by
the decreasing imports under the
Mckinley schedule, which, for twelve
months, shows falling off in the i'm
ports of manufactures of wool" OF
about $25 100000. The value of the
goods imported for the twelve months of
1890 reached bout $50 ,000,0
In other words the imports of manu-
factured goods for 1891, 80 far as the
figures have been obtained, Indicate only
about s35, ,O00, 900 worth, showing de.
crease of $25 100000, of woelen fabrics
formerly made abroad, but now made in
the United States, giving employment
to American labor and making a better
market for American wool.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-21
Caught.


At a certain station large quantities of
plums and apples were being reported
as missing almost daily in the large
hampers and baskets that were sent to
London. Circumstances pointed to the
probability of the pilfering taking place
at the sending station. The agent hit
upon novel plan for detecting the thief.
He had lad porter placed in one of
these hampers returning empty, which
was large enough to hold him, covered
the top with canvas and labeled it
.'Plums- with the address
in full.
Toward midnight the lad got cramped
and felt anxious to get ont, but he stuck
manfully to his post. BY and by one of
the night shunters came into the shed to
examine the wagons labeled for the next
train. He groped about the packages,
and cut hole in the canvas of the ham,
per where the lad was concealed and
felt for the plums.S ~ - .7s1itsi7 ''e-a-@'
He was terrified, however, to find his
hand firmly gripped, and almost tainted
with fright when the porter revealed
himself and recognized him, with a large
basket full of fruit by his side. The
shunter was in a couple of days dis
missed and the porter received promo
tion.-London Tit-Bits.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-21
Declined the Passes.

The presentation by Sir Edwin Ar
mold of the manuscript of meritorious
and intrinsically valuable poem to the
Lotos club recalls an incident that
marked the visit of Henry Irving to this
city in 1889. Like Sir Edwin, Mr. Irving
had been an honored guest at Lotos
club banquet. The enthusiasm of the
loeos eaters is boundless and their hospi-
tality is proverbial. Sir Edwin, in the
enthusiasm of the moment, presented
the club with the manuscript of a poem
for which he had been offered a large
sum of money. Mr.. Irving, after enjoy
ing the hospitality of the club, insisted
on presenting each member with an an
nual pass to the Lyceum theater, in Lon
don. The limitless possibilities of such
a presentation impressed certain mem
bers of the club to such an extent that
they undertook the task. of prevailing
upon each member to send note declin-
ing the proffered favor. Mr.. Irving's
impulsive generosity was thereby saved
from very expensive consequences
New York Times.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-21

The Secretary of the Dalles board of
trade, B. S. Huntington, has received
the following telegram from Hon Binger
Herman:
'sThe River and Harbor committee
will hear delegations until February
10th. An upper Columbia river dele
cation, well informed, would help me
here"
In the absence OF any financial pro-
vision for the expense of sending a loby
to Washington the CHRONICLE suggests
that here is an opportunity that may
not occur again during the century for
candidates for county state and national
officials to show their unselfish devotion
to the peoples interests by hurrying to
Washington and doing some good loby
service in the interest of the dalles
portage. Secretary Huntington will
furnish the candidates with the neces-
sary figures and the CHRONICLE will
help elect them after the bill becomes a
law