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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-24
New Gloucester.

from Our Regular Correspondent
Last Saturday evening the Upper
Gloucester band gave an open-air concert,
followed by strawberry festival and So
ciable in Centennial Hall.
Miss Nettie Hill former resident of
this town has become a Catholic, and is
at present with the Sisters of Mercy in
California.
Mr.. Charles B. White of Lynn is stop
ping at B. F. Woodbury's.
The frequent showers have had good
effect upon the grass, which promises
nova fair hay crop.
last Sunday letter was read in the
Congregational church, asking aid from
that society for Mr.. and Mrs. Brown of
Durham, who lost all their worldly pos
sessions in the terrible thunder storm of
last week.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27
ONE TERM FOR PRESIDENTS.

Ex-Secretary, and now United States
Senator Proctor of Vermont has signal
lied his advent in the upper house of
congress to fill the unexpired term of
Mr. EdmundS, by introducing a joint
resolution for a constitutional amend
ment providing for six-year term for
presidents of the United States, coupled
with ineligibility for reelection.
A change in the constitution to this
effect has for many years been the sub
ject of talk, its advocates claiming with
force that it would do away with the
frequent recurrence of elections. which
hardly allow the country a breathing
space from political agitation and tur
mol. 1t remains to be seen, however,
whether it will advance much beyond
the talk" stage even now; for so con-
sentative are the people of the United
States, so reverent of the past, and so
averse to laying tinkering hand on the
constitution, that while growing at in
convenience they viii put up with it
rather than have it removed at such
expense.
In other republics the six-year term
has become the regulation period for hold
ing the presidential Office, and the re-
suits arising from the arrangement have
been found to be satisfactory. And
there is little reason to doubt that our
of the heightened term, if we
could have the experience. would be of
the same nature as the experience of
others. But we have not arrived there
yet, by a long way.
But Senator Palmer's proposition for an
providing for the election
of United States senators by direct vote
of the people, has precedence, at least,
in public favor, over the Proctor PROPOSE
ton, and one of the kind is all that the
country is likely to favor at one time.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27

and he lifted up his voice and said unto
him, Behold, l have conferred you out
from among the multitude as the one
who should be made high priest in the
synagogue. Go in and win, for when I
am for you, no man can prevail against
you. And when it was almost evening
he came to the house of vet another hus-
handman, he whose name was Henry,
end unto him he told the same story.
and 1t happened that Henry responded
as the others had done and
he said Letter go gallagher, which being
translated, means that it it is even @. K.
Now, when the Fixer arrived at his own
house he called his wife to him and said
Wife, though am indeed loaihe to ad-
NIT 1T, | am forced to tell you that you
have an unusually smart man for hus-
band. For, 10. have this day brought
out Tom, Dick and Harry for the chief
place in the synagogue, and verify will
be solid with him who shall get there.
And when the woman heard this she
marvelied greatly. and straightway told
1t among the women Of the town. And
when the people heard this they laughed
loud Clydesdale laugh, and some who
stood in the market place winked the
other eye."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27
THE DIFFERENCE.

Springfield Democrat: "When the
people of the west and south, of the
north and middle states, were with al
most one voice demanding an additional
volume of money to relieve the agricul-
tural and industrial interests of the coun-
try, Mr.. Cleveland promulgated his fatal
letter against free coinage of silver. Had
he taken up the cause of the people at
this point, instead Of announcing his
alliance with the single gold standard of
the capitalists of the east, he would have
been nominated by the national Demo-
cratic convention by reclamation.
Granting that all you say is true, yet i'll
how much better plight does your cham
pion, Hill, appear: He has attempted to
say something on the silver question on
two occasions, but we have yet TO hear
the first person interpret what he at
tempted to say on either occasion as
favoring free coinage. Hill may be
smarter than Cleveland in thus equivo-
eating, but everybody knows where TO
find Cleveland.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27

Here are the buyers of the whole
world. Now, which of them does our
free trader expect to capture by his
Clover cost of productions" Even the
abiding faith of an American Cobdenite
cannot hope for greatly increased sales
of the products of American mills in the
shadow of English factories. SO Great
Britain and its 2,077 900. 900 may be
eliminated. Next substract France,
Germany, Russia. Austria, Italy, Spain
and Portugal, Belgium, Canada, Swift
erland, Scandinavia and Australia, all of
which are protected countries, whose
policy is to preserve for their own manu-
features monopoly of the domestic
market. The protectionist law makers
of these countries viii see to it that no
very extensive captures" of their
markets are made by the United States
or any other country. There remains
then as the only part OF this great
worlds market of $7.S33, 900, 900 only
81, sos, 900, 900 for which we can even
hope
Well, what are our prospects for OBJ
tanning this remnant? Holland, the most
liberal buyer, exports nearly as much
iron and steel of all kinds as it imports.
AS for textiles, it usually exports quite
as much as it imports of them and sends
to England three times as much as 1t
takes of British products. India is be-
ginning, with the help Of its extremely
low wage rate, to supply its own de-
mand for manufactures and will soon
be a dangerous competitor in these
markets of the world" Cottons are
the principal manufactured goods needed
in the Orient. and it is altogether prob
able that the demand of China. Java
and Japan will soon be abundandy sup
piled with Oriental cottons at so low
rate that competition by either England
or the United States i'll be out of the
question. Turkey, Africa and the "other
countries" have but few wants, and
these are for the most part such as we
could not supply.
Thus do the ''great markets of the
world" disappear under careful examina-
ton and analysis. If the whole 81, $685.
Co., 900 which represents the purchases
Of the worlds neutral" market were
offered to us in exchange for our do
mestic market we could not afford to
accept. Our nome trade is at least ten
times this amount annually. All its
profits are kept at home, and the risk of
distant Oceln transportation is reduced
to minimum It's benefits and bless
ings are incalculable, and it will be a
dark and dismal day when this splendid
birthright is bartered away for that
miserable mess of pottsge, ''the worlds
montreal marEatc "
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Chandler will have q new jail 24x3o feet.
Two ministers at Oklahoma City are in
row.
A lot in Tecumseh sold for 81 900 the
other day.
April the 1st is the great day now, on
the west line.
Mr. John Ollie has selected FL Reno as
his headquarters.
When the grip attacks an Indian he isn't
half blanket enough.
Statehood is settled for this time. But
it will come up again.
The Santa Fe is preparing to enlarge its
passenger depot at Purcell
The Alliance of Kingfisher county are
thinking OF starting paper.
The Republicans seem to be getting up
a splendid organization in the territory.
The Oklahoma City military reservation
bill is undergoing the agony of red-tape.
Court will convene at kingfsher next
Tuesday with Judge Burford on the wool
sack.
Oklahoma can stand il, IL the govern
ment insists on paying her running ex-
penses.
The county board of Kingfsher have ex-
tended the time Of paying taxes until
March l.
Dennis Flynn. it is said, is swinging
round the circle fixing up his congre>-
sional fences.
Congress vii, some day realize that there
are somebody IN the Indian territory be-
sides Indians
Guthrie mad msd-dog scare on Tues
day and the little dogs are suffering in
consequence.
Oklahoma will have to wait awhile be-
fore it can have two senator's and three Or
four congressman.
The Cbootax GU, through the military
reservation. east az Oklahoma City, is
eighteen feet deep
Tie indians beat statehood Taa red
man has more power no@ than he will
have two years heaca-
A large number OF osags indians are
holding ghost dance on the ranks q tie
Arkansas river, east Of Poaca
Beaver county Is pleased that Hon J II.
BurtoFd ass beea made associate justice.
having Beaver in his jurisdiction.
Richard Harding Davis. the best shot
story writer in America. j. visiting IN o..
IAhoma- Oklahoma Aaz SONS a5ssla.
gnlSi4ed visitors
The fOwEslte commissioners hare aboat
concluded issuing deei- - rneoniestesi
lots IN souiA Oklahans and Saturday
week tie aFss contest is ses for hearing
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27

Pretty nearly ever oos las seen the cur,
ora "saA rr1gNes. or '~aa uso6laosa, swhses
are found p!saGlfuliy ca oeS.a beaches
These are the s.xz es-es q the ga snAlla
They consast o. a sumb@r q snail d.sz
shsped suTsiOpss attached sIoaz = SORT 81
stem. The biggest - them b~srg IA tbs
middle. Ia each saTsssDe there IL q lis1Is
spos q ih5nrser uASt.ri2l. which tks ysusz
hrsak Through when tlsey are neady 70 -
hatcne4- When fsss female gNEtzzopod ID
aboat % lay siss bHrses ks-Dif ~ the sand.
from TIE szrt&os n which the @becki&ce"
q sgsss - gradually sxtrsass. Be4sg thtls
~ sdTsfs aasd expired % skS slezssnss. ~
weu as 70 eesOsrtzg ssss5sles. fee q ths
sFsz are ever haschsz3. bet shose wklch de
css-ne into sts world .afslY ard scr~s~s
st0atessas i've % 4 serT x1sz1 age
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27

There il something 70 a wouan's nind
painfully notwithstanding in the discovery
that plants have a distinct appetite for
flesh food, set Mr. Francis Darwin has put
this beyond ali doubt by feeding one plant
with roast meat aud treating another in
the ordinary way. with the result that the
carnivorouS uiaut not only produced go
seeds TO every 100 produced by the other.
but the seeds themselves were finer and
heavier. II was that now somewhat neg
lected philosopher, Sam Weller. who pro
pounded the sweeping theory that ''SatuT's
rum 'un, and certainly this roast meat
idea IL positively GiIbertian
I hope the carnsvoTous tendencies Of
plants will never be cultivated 20 tbs
extent Of involving such items ia cur
butchers books as.
One po1nd gravy beef for roses. ...........So u
Chump chip. - ounces. for orchids .
and consequent serious money addition
TO our bo0sshoid expenses. II IL should.
ard time sBoald arrive when the resi-
dents ia our couservateries and window
gardens become eonDOssseslrs and Affect
pioyers' e.,Zs ard quails. the outlook would
be truly alarming. ard tbe CITY resources
left 10 "a poor women would b. 70 sacrifice
our love II GgSeTs upon The altar @ econ
oruy or 70 enter upon a retaliafory and seif
defensive course q egetzrianisaa. Chi
cago Trio uue
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27
THE DEACON DILEMMA.

! This week the reading public has been
| interested in a case at Cannes, France.
Mr.. Deacon, an affiuent American. resid-
| ing in Paris, discovered a native OF that
country in his wife's room, and in a scene
of the greatest confusion and open rupture
OF conventional behavior. shot the French
man and killed him and reyiled his wife
with bitter scorn.
From such an occurrence, several con-
lectures naturally present themselves as
to just who is to blame.
A slip like Mrs Deacon's in America
would cost any woman her good name.
But it is not so bad as that in France.
The French statesman in the intoxlca-
ton of debate stated fact when he de-
clared some years ago: France has her
morals, but they are not English Adult
cry, sir, with us is not an immortality
it is an institution"
It is necessary to reflect that each coun-
try or people has its own standard of
morality. 1t may be very embarrassing
to some to read that in the northern
chimes, the custom of bundling is still
practiced and by nations. too, whose
standard Of morality is high, but it is
true.
France is equally extreme in another di-
rection in regard TO her daughters. Girls
during their youth and maidenhood are
guarded with jealous care. They are
never permitted to receive company in the
drawing-room without a chaperone; they
are never left alone with a man-this is
not even accorded betrothed. Every
means for any private or secret affection
is cut off The result could be expected.
Marriage frees them; they are given full
liberty; they can do what they please; they
have no bonds. Before they were slaves;
now they go to the opposite extreme. And
the present odoriferous, scandalous, scrof-
ulous state of society in France ensues.
Before marriage weman can do nothing.
After it she can do anything. That is the
French way.
How much better the state of affairs is
here at home, which has recently been at
tackled. 1t has been charged that there
was too much indiscriminate hugging aud
kissing among our young people. and too
many broken engagements.
While it is true that the sanctity of a
plighted troth is getting to be entirely too
lightly thought of in America, still there
can be no denying that our custom of free
dom for our young women is an excellent
one
The American girl can receive her callers
unattended; she can entertain any man
of her acquaintance alone: she can go
where she listS-for a most excellent
her parents trust in her
implicitly; in her inherent honor and
womanly worth; and as a true woman
she upholds them. This independence is
the strongest bulwark virtue can have and
it nurtures the woman to condition ripe
for true wife and motherhood.
The American way is superior to the
French. The French women regards mar
riage as d license: the American woman
has always been her own guardian and
holds it a sacred trust not to be broken.
Mrs Deacon made this mistake. For
French woman with a French husband
the liaison might be eXcusable. For an
American woman with an American hus
band, even in the easy atmosphere of
France, but one thing could follow-a
tragedy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27

Oklahoma Times-JournaI: A letter
from prominent Oklahoma man now in
Washington received in this city yester-
day states that BENZ. T. Hegler will be
the new register of the Oklahoma City
land Office aud John a. Cotteral OF the
Guthrie land Office.
Richard Harding Davis. the young auth
or aud newspaper man who has been spend
ing a couple of days IN Oklahoma City,
left for Fort Reno where he VIII be the
guest of Colonel Wade for week. Mr.
Davis impression concerning the south
west, and particularly of Oklahoma viii
sppear shortly in Harper's Weekly in
serial form and will afterwards be publish
ed in book form.
Oklahoma Times-Journal The Wichi-
ia and Kickapoo agreements are before
congress aud their ratification should be
pressed for all they are worth. Ii il is at
all possible those lands should be made
ready for opening when the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe reservations are opened. King
fisher and FL Reno ought to be greatly in
terested in the opening of the Wichita
reservation and should press congress for
an immediate ratification.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27

There will be four parties in the presi-
dental campaign this year, sure, and it
may be as many more. The snub given
the prohibitionsts and the woman suf-
fragists by the ST. Louis conglomeration
has put them on their mettle. The
recognized head and leader of the lists
combine, frankie Willard, has already
called convention to meet in st. Louis
on June 30 to put presidential ticket in
the field. There is one thing that can
be said for this move, and that is it will
give st. John an opportunity to help the
Democratic party again, and in doing SO
help his own purse.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27
STATISTICS OF The GRIP

The Connecticut board of health,
which probably collects the most careful,
complete and accurate mortality statis-
tics for an entire state in the Union, has
been very careful in its last report, de-
string TO know authoratively the effects
of the grip and kindred diseases on the
public health and the death rate. The
report covers all but one township in the
state, and shows the heaviest mortality
since the board was established in 1878.
OF the deaths no less than 80 per cent.
are due to the grip, pneumonia and
bronchitis, and the death rate exceeded
80 per 1000, being nearly twice what it
normally is. This would indicate that
the grip brought with it other diseases
that could not be directly traced to it,
but which helped to increase the NOR
tally. A curious feature Of the report
and one not in accordance with the com
mon belief is that the annual death rate
is much smaller in the towns-29.7 per
1000-than in the country districts,
where it is $40. 1t has not hitherto
been supposed that the grip was espec-
tally bad on the farms, but that their
healthful air was beneficial. 1t would
seem, however, that the superior home
comforts of the town residences and the
better medical attendance patients re-
ceive there more than offset the rural
1t is singular, however, that this once
supposed harmless visitor, the grip,
should have made the death rate greater
than it ever was before in "the land of
steady habits"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27

The American Aluminium company
has started an experimental plant in
Philadelphia to work a new process of
extracting aluminium, and Edward c.
BroadweIl, the inventor, says that a
$4,000 plant is about to be erected at
Scranton, Pa. With this plant he says
he can produce 1000 pounds of alumni
MUM per day, and with it 1900 pounds
of chloride of lime, worth q cents a
pound, so that the aluminium can be
sold at l cent a pound with profit He
also SAYS that the process is continuous.
The question of cost in producing the
new metal has been its greatest draw
back heretofore, and If the process has
been improved upon so that its cost will
not be more than l cent a pound, and
it is demonstrated that it can be pro-
duced in large quantities, it viii revolu-
tionize the manufacture of many arti-
cles, both in their cost and durability.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27
THE PARABLE OF THE FIxER.

From the Kansas Cty Journal
This is the day when the Fixer riseth
in the early morn and goelh forth to see
what he mav fix he cometh upon the
lusty and prancing war horse and he
hitcheth him 10 his chariot: he arriveth
at the field where Cincinnatus. " hose
name is Legion, striveth with the pillow
and the pale ecTu mule. and the Fixer
sayeth come, and tile plow rusteth: aud
GO, and the mule paws up the newly
planted garden. Fer il Is better 10 be =
small and inconsequenIal Fixer and Ak
things than 10 stand IN the favor OF
princes. Now. in these DAYS there dwell
a certain Fixer in the city which lie;h
over against the kaw in the neigh0or-
hood Of Tecumseh Ald the E4xer con-
suited the omens, even the grounding,
the moon. the goose hone aud tine fiigit
of the geese. and he SAID 10 himself:
10; will 90 oar into the
vineyard aud fix few things And he
Went out and spake IN whispers u thgs
ole whose surname Is Thomas, and lac
sad. 'Nou are indeed the man Ia De high
priest ia the synagogue. Aud 10 cau3e
10 pass that Thomas agreed and there
WAS 10 dissenting vote. Ard tie tlxaF
came 80 another of tho workers IA tie
vineyard, whose surname was Richard,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27

From the standpoint of the calamity
lite there is a good deal of philosophy in
the declaration of the Sockless Socrates
in the ST Louis pow-wow in reference to
the proposed prohibition paragraph in
string of resolves, wherein he declared
that poverty must be cured before III
temperance" The temperance advocate
will join issue with Jerry on that propo-
sition, though, for the latter declares.
boldly and without fear of successful
contradiction" that 10 cure poverty. in.
temperance-which IS the most common
and prolific cause of poverty first
be cured. We move to refer the ques-
ton to the buy-choride- with-gold advo-
Gates for further investigation.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27

If all the kaiser disconnected subjects
should take William at his word and de-
part the realm the French. always on
the qui vive, would haste to reinvest the
republic with the provinces lost 10 Ger
many by the war of '70-1. Evidently
Billie was blutfing. But the sturdy Teu-
tons will not be so easily elhowed out of
the fatherland nor quiet their feelings Of
unrest. The country is as much theirs
as his and they may take a notion that it
is less trouble and less expensive TO leave
off the emperor than to leave ;he coun-
try, and act accordingly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27

The demonstrations in the German
capital would seem to indicate that the
social situation and material condition
of the people in the fatherland is not
much better than that in the realm of
the car. The declaration of the en-
peror that those who are Disconnected
may leave the country may be display
of nerve, but it does not betray SEM
blance of statecraft. He had better
strive to remove the cause of discomfort
and retain his subjects; he is liable to
need them, all of them, before great
Uhila
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27

The ST. Louis platform demands the
issue Of legal tender notes and pay the
Union soldier the difference between the
price of the deprecated money in which
he was paid, and gold If they could
furnish guaranty that the increase of
treasury notes thus demanded would not
effect a depreciation in value that would
call Cor another Issue 10 make good the
discrepancy between the new issue ana
gold. and SO On al inhnituni, there
might be some reason 10 the demand
anu some chance Tor its being granted.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27

Mr.. George Du AIaurier, society artist
of Punch, has been lecturing on Social
Pictorial Satire" He declares that his
favorite creation is the pretty woman, +"
and that plaster cast of the Venus de
Milo has been the silent companion of
his work for thirty years. The more he
looked upon her the more he saw to
worship and admire. The only part of
Dn Mauriers work western people see
ere the full page jokes in the back of
Harper's Monthly. Occasionally some
body can be found who likes them, but
he Is rara avis.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27

Cleveland's cause may not be served
for the best by the plan of campaign his
friends have adopted and are pursuing
in denouacing and telling things on Hill,
hut the Republicans are being furnished a
fine lot OF splendid campaign ammunition
in case Hill should be the Democratic
nominee. 1t is ali being stored and there
Is room for more. Keep up.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27
FOREIGN MARKETS,
rom the American Economtst.

From the American Economist.
What and where are the great mar
kets of the world for which the free
trader would give up our splendid home
market?
The following table shows the pur-
chases of the whole world in 1889,
according to that eminent free trade
StatlStlcian, Michael G.. Muihall:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-27
The influence of the Press.

From the Nickerson Argosy.
We cannot understand why news
paper man like MuTdock or Hudson
would want to be governor or United
States senator. We would rather run
the Capital or EAGLE than to be either
governor or United States senator. A
great paper like the Globe Democrat has
a greater influence than the president.