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The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
Portland Commanderx.

Portland Commandery, Knights Tenn
plar, will make an excursion to Poland
Springs June oath and 25th, accompanied
by ladies. The train will leave the I'm
ion Station June oath, at $50 a. M, ar
irving at Danville Junction at 9.36,
where stages will be taken for the Poland
Springs House, where the party will stay
until the afternoon Of the 25th. Chand-
ler's full orchestra and the Haydn Quar-
tette will accompany the Commandery.
The evening of the oath will be devoted
to dancing and vocal and instrumental
music. This is intended to be purely a
social and informal gathering, and not a
full dress affair.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
Portland Talent at Bethel.

Cole Brothers hall at Bethel was dedi-
Gated Wednesday evening by musical
entertainment. The hall will seat about
1000 people and was well filed. The pro-
prietors rendered their thanks to the citi-
zens Of Bethel for the encouragement
they had received during the erection and
construction of the building and the gen
erous patronage of the entertainment.
The citizens expressed their thanks to
the proprietors for erecting such beau
tiful block and furnishing such mag
nifcent hall, which was credit to their
enterprise, and an ornament to the vii
age. Callahan's Orchestra of Lewiston,
Shaw's Quartette and the Cecelian Quar-
tette of this city, furnished music of a
high order.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
BRIEF JoTTINGs.
deci1

The railroad commissioners went over
the Grand Trunk yesterday.
The Masonic Token for May has been
received from Stephen Berry.
Two cargoes of iron pipe for the Cape
Elizabeth Water Works have arrived.
The W. G. T. U. meeting in Baxter
Hall yesterday afternoon was well attend
ed.
The regular meeting of the Fresh Air
Society will be held at the Y. M. G.. A.
rooms at II a. m.
The contract for building the South
Portland plush mill has been let to Spen-
Ger Rogers of this city.
Yesterday was bright in the morning,
with a raw southeast wind. It the after
noon it was cloudy and very raw.
The Grand Lodge, K. of P, will meet
the third Wednesday in June, 1893, at 10
a. m. with Fort George Lodge, Bruins
wick.
Marshal SWEET had some boys before
him yesterday for destroying some of
Mr.. John Gerrishs plants on the Eastern
promenade.
Rev. G. Everett Bean will conduct the
teachers Bible class at the Young Mems
Christian Association this afternoon at
4.3o o'clock.
Mystic Lodge celebrated their 9th an
niversary at their hall last evening with
a play which gave great satisfaction to
the members present.
The committee on fire department has
bought IA pony fire extinguishers like the
one on Casco 5, to be attached to the
hose carts and ladder trucks.
The Diamond Island Transportation
Company and Falmouth Foreside Steam
boat Company have consolidated and in
tile future the steamer Isis will run from
Portland Pier.
On account of the large number that
were unable to gain admission to the
hall, the anniversary concert will be re-
peated at the Gospel Mission this eve
ming. All are invited.
A horse was frightened on Congress
street last night and ran away, tipping
the carriage over at Congress square and
throwing out the two lady occupants.
Fortunately neither was seriously in
jured.
The Maine Central official time table
for May is just out, and is full of valua-
Bile information concerning the railroads.
This months issue pays its respects to
Conductor NJ. F. Healey, of whom like
ness and sketch are given.
Building Inspector Hunt gives Mr..
Ponce's new theatre at Long Island a
first class rating for convenience and
safety. There will be front entrance
with two doors, each 10 feet wide, and
substantial staircases in the rear, one
outside and one inside.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
Eve and Ear Infirmary Fair.

The arrangements for the fair in aid of
the Eye and Ear Infrmary are nearing
completion, and donations of fancy and
useful articles are pouring in from all
sides. s&S
Next week will, be a gala one for the
people Of Portland and vicinity as the
fair will make fitting close to the win
ter's entertainments and gaieties.
Special trains will be run on all the
roads running into Portland and will
bring thousands of visitors to the city.
The cafe should be well patronized by
the business men who can get fine din
ner or supper short distance from their
offices at a very low price.
Let the people of Portland put their
shoulders to this worthy work and roll
up good round sum for an Institution
which is to be an ornament to our city
and proof of our progressive and liber-
al spirit.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
Another Lantern Slide Exhibition,

The exhibition of prints at the Camera
Club rooms still attracts number of Wis
itors and the many prize pictures are
worthy of close study. On Saturday eve
ming will be shown another set of about
Is slides, and members of the Society of
Art and friends are invited to be present
at the rooms. Though no admission fee
is charged, members and friends are re-
minded that the club depends ON the sale
of the catalogues to pay expenses, and to
make the exhibition success it should
be well patronized.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
A Golden Wedding.

Mr.. and Mrs. S. J. Whall of Evergreen
street, Auburndale, Mass, celebrated the
50th anniversary of their marriage at
their home Wednesday,. Many friends
congratulated them. MI. Whall is 70 years
old and has been resident of Newton
10 years; previous to that he was in Bos-
ton. He believes himself to be the old
estliving person who was engaged in the
boot and shoe jobbing business in Bos-
ton. Mr.. Whall was once resident of
Maine and is the only juror living who
was on the famous Hayden trial.n
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20

Joseph O'Donnell and Patrick J. Ney,
two of the young men accused of being
among the rioters at Cape Elizabeth on
May Sth, came in and gave themselves up
to the police authorities. Yesterday
morning they were before the court,
George Libby, ESQ.,, appearing in de-
fence. For the assault on Constable Bur-
CESS Ney, was sentenced to imprisonment
for go days. He entered an appeal.
Another charge of an assault on Nj. Full
lerton was continued until next Friday.
Joseph O'Donnell received the same SEN
tence, go days in Jail for the assault on
Burgess, and an additional 80 days for
cruelty abusing the horse. He was COM
mitted.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
New England League.

THE Order of New England League
held their regular meeting at their rooms
70 and Il Casco Bank Building taking in
a large number of new members, and
have 20 applicants for next Thursday
evening, May Goth.
The New England League is benef-
ciaryssociety that does its own insuring
and its plans are endorsed by the insur-
ancc commissioner.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
PERSONAL.

Mr.. and Mrs. W. W. Brown of Deering
returned home Wednesday from their
Southern trip.
Hermann and Mrs. Hermann are at
the Falmouth Hotel, as is also Mr.. J. NJ.
S. Hunter of the Pennington Chronicle.
Hon. Frank Jones, president of the
Boston & Maine Railroad, sailed from
New York for Europe yesterday, on bust
ness. Mrs. Jones and a granddaughter
accompany him.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
The Labor Mass Meeting.

Mr.. Thomas J. Lyons, we'll known
labor advocate and prominent citizen of
Vinalhaven, who has represented his
town in the legislature, has been invited
to deliver an address in behalf of the
granite cutters at the labor mass meeting
in City Hall on the Sd of next month.
Frank K. Foster, of the Boston Labor
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
VIII Preach in Portland.

Rev. John R. Crosser, the former pas
tor of the First Presbyterian church, who
is now settled at Glen Falls, N. Y, will
preach to his old Pensioners at the First
Presbyterian church of this city next
Sunday afternoon and evening. Mr..
Crosser will remain in Portland about
two weeks.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
The Last Chance.

All who have moved their residence or
business since the canvass for the Port
land Directory, can have their present
places given on the page of additions and
removals by notifying the Brown Thurs
ton Company on or before May %.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
tsbsMW&F&wly

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss. she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them CastoriA
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The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used over Fifty Years by millions of mothers
for their children while Teething, with perfect
success. 1t soothes the child, softens the
Gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Collie. regulates
the bowels, and is the best remedy for Diar-
rhoea, whether arising from teething or other
causes. For sale by Druggists in every part Of
the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow'e
Soothing Syrup. 25c bottle.
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The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

....t Is likely to Do ....-.--
perstormy. sg3ya
NJ Oman enjoys
~ ing too much
for his linen of
neckwear or whatever
else; much less getting
unworthy goods which
may turn into sources of
regret later on.
We are careful to get
the best Of everything and
to keep sharp step with
fashion in mems attire,
never losing sight Of the
fact that you always ex-
pect to pay a little less
here than at furnishings
stores.-It's for you to say
how well we meet these
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conditions
Can you tie an Ascot
scarf?
Simplest Of all the knots
when you've once master
ed it and there's nothing
quite SO stylish just at
present as the Ascot. A
new fresh line made of
delicate French crepes,
straight from one OF New
York's best makers has
just come along and is
ready to-day. All tones
of blue with printed
figures.
The lot Of imported
Canes with silver-deposit
ornaments is as good as
anything to test prices by
in this departm e n t.
They're s. and $3.50 any
where else, our price
81.
If you are ready to put
on a Neglige Shirt now,
there's a great line here to
choose from, an uncom-
monty good line, with
prices crowded down to
the lowest possible notch.
Travelling Bags of Al
ligator and English grain
leather, new shapes. UNI
brellas of silk or gloria or
ginghams. Dents Gloves
selected skins. Socks for
slippers, for high boots,
for russell shoes, for fisher
men and bicyclists. Linen
and silk Handkerchief
after all this is more of a
store for mems things than
you think.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
For additional Local News see
Fifth Page.

Angostura Bitters, the celebrated appetizer.
of exquisite flavor, is used all over the world,
DR.. j. G. B Siegert& Sons, sole manufacturers.
AT your druggist may20FMW&w1w
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20

New Wants, To Let, For Sale, Lost, Found
and similar advertisements, will be found under
heir appropriate headings on page 6.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
THE PRESS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TODAY.
ADJUSTMENTS.

ADJUSTMENTS.
Portland theatre
FIFTH PAGE. m
X John Little & Co.. .,~.,s
The Atkinson Company.
Harrington & Bickford. $50 M
EIGHTH PAGE
Owen, Moore SEQ. .-
Rines Bros.
Walter Corey Company.
The Atkinson Co.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-20
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
We ALWAYS LEAD ]!

Our stock is ready for business and shall
begin the sale this morning These are all bona fde
bargains and the prices reduced as marked. Every
lady who reads the following list will see at glance the
value of the goods that offer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07

AS regards potato culture, we agree
with the writer who SAYS that in no
other branch of farming is there greater
lack of unity regarding the best meth
DDS than in growing potatoes. Not
only do farmers differ in their prac-
tees, but the experts, the specialists,
those who make potato.raising the
main feature and other crops only the
incidentals, these differ radically in
some respects. A few of our expert
ment stations have gone into the mat
ter somewhat and have come out with
practically nothing. The questions of
level culture or killing, of planting
whole seed, halfseed, quarters, double
eyes and single eyes, are still chalked
upon the bulletin boards of agriculture
as unsolved problems.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07

THE Chicago Inter Ocean cautions
farmers to be on the lookout for parties
who are securing the country, endeavor-
ing to swindle people with contract
for wire fence. They offer to give
enough wire to fence ten-acre field, if
the party approached will sign con-
tract to take the agency for the wire.
The contract is where the swindle comes
in, and if you read closely, it turns out
to be promissory note for $3.50, after
a few words are erased with oxalic acid.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07
Apple NOtes-.-LOng-keeping Duchess

Brother Towle of the st. Adams
Messenger, speaking of the peach apple
OF Montreal, expresses strong doubts
as to its being of Russian origin, on ac-
count of its spotting. We have always
thought it a French apple, and the only
reason for guessing it to be Russian is
its hardness against cold. But we have
some native apples equally hardy. Mr..
Towle says the st. Lawrence apple is
as good or better than the peach apple
for canning. This is also spotter with
us, but is fine apple in quality. Mr..
Towle praises the Duchess, but laments
the shortness of its season. Many have
said that winter Duchess would be
the most popular apple of all for the
cold north. We are happy to say that
there is fine prospect ahead for those
who are of this opinion. A Mr.. Dud-
ley, in Aroostook county, Maine, has
grown seeding of Duchess which is
large, handsome, productive and very
good keeper. 1t is known in Maine as
Dudley's Winter; but a New York
nursery firm, which has bought the
right from Mr.. Dudley and is propagat-
ing it extensively, has renamed it
North Star. But this is not all In a
lot of Russian apples obtained by us
from Professor Budd of Iowa, eight OF
nine years ago, is an apple the exact
duplicate of Duchess in looks when the
Duchess is ripe; and for several years
the fruit has gone in with Duchess
But this year the tree was overlooked
and later, after Duchess was all gone
ii was found Redeemed all over instead
of striped, still hard and firm, and il
remained so up to date, being evidently
winter apple. In dessert quality il
is good deal better than Duchess
We are going to propagate it, and shall
be happy to send Brother Towle tree
of it if we are both on earth three years
hence. In reply to his inquiry about
Fameuse, we are sorry that it is bad
spotter, as well as its seedlings, McIn
tosh Red and Fameuse Sucree. The
only Canadian apple we have that is
free from spotting is Canada Baldwin
which is fine apple but needs a clay
soil.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07
Forest Trees--.Maples.
BY J. A. BATES, RANDOLPH, VT

Your Lamoille county correspondent
allows us only three sorts, on the
authority of Thompson's We, ,ont:''
but our botanists give us six I &UA1o|
sides the box-elder or ash-leaved ma
pie. They may be divided into pairs:
C) The two sugar maples-the rock ma
pie and the black maple; (2) the soft
maples-the white and the red; (3) the
bastard maples-the striped and the
mountain. 49,
Only one of each class can
common in Vermont-the ro ~
and the striped naples
bright farmers boy ought
difference between these.
compare their leaves or tb
he will have no difficulty in
ing them. The red mapl.
before the leaves come, and the ..roeo
has long dropping cluster OF greenish
flowers.
One of your correspondents speaks
OF sugar orchards whose trees resemble
rock naples, but are very inferior as
sugar producers, and somebody calls
them "sort of bastard maple.n If
any body has an orchard of red bastard
NAPLES or striped naples, let us hear
from him. The striped maple doesn't
resemble the rock maple 1t is only a
small tree, perhaps fifteen or twenty
feet high, with smooth bark, striped
green and black. But the striped ma
pie, according to D.. Cuttings expert
ments, will yield more than twice the
percentage of sugar which the sugar
naples do (ten per cent against four
and one-half per cent?. 1t is a very
rapid grower; might it not be profit
ably cultivated? Will our experiment
station please tell US?
And can Mr.. Wheeler tell us why
those orchards are not good for sugar?
| know one of several hundred large
trees, soil and moisture and location not
different, apparently, from others within
a half-mile that are good. Yet it doesn't
pay for tapping. Another farmer of
my acquaintance might tap nearly 200
trees (two grand rows of shade trees)
within few rods of his house; but
they do not give any sap. They grow
on sort of terrace. Farther up the
hillside, and little below them on other
terraces, are good sugar places. What's
the matter with them?
And who can tell us something about
the black maple? DR.. Cutting in his
Report for the Agricultural Depart
ment 0SS5-6) says it is "known as the
black maple to the farmers of Yer
mont" Does any Vermont farmer
know it? If 50, let US hear of it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07

can stand hardship. 1t means, rather,
one of strong constitution, unimpaired
digestion, active circulation and good
respiration. A COW that can digest and
assimilate feed enough to produce
pound of butter fat per day for ten or
twelve months in succession is hardy
COW, although her system may be COM
pletely deranged by a mess of sour or
frozen feed, or night or even few
hours exposure to disagreeable storm.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07

POULTRY has been domesticated for
many centuries. When Julius C@ 'ar
invaded Great Britain he found both
the goose and the fowl in state of
domestication and they seemed to have
been held in some kind of religious rev.
erence, as they were forbidden to be
eaten. 1t is common over all the world,
and it is singular fact that the com.
mon fowl, in every way resembling
that of our own country, was found do
mesticated among the South Sea
Islanders when first visited by the Euro
peans. The game cock we seem to
owe to the Romans. Several choice
breeds were kept by the ancient Greeks,
Modes and Persians.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07

If you are offered bottle of Saliva
ton Oil, without wrapper, or mutiated
or defaced, don't buy it at any price.
You may be sure that there is some
thing wrong-it may be worthless or
dangerous counterfeit. Insist upon
getting perfect, unbroken, genuine
package, in yellow wrapper. Be on
your guard.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07

AMONG the good things that have
been introduced into this country from
Russia, is the laurel-leaved willow (sa-
La ldurUolid). 1t is proving to be a
rapid grower and entirely hardy, and
we think should be advanced to the front
as an ornamental tree.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07

How are we ever to reach the desired
end? How can the farming class be
inspired with sense of its own rights
and duties, and with an infexible pur-
pose to secure the one by faithfully per-
forming the other? Again we must
say there is no way but the way of
better education. And that is what our
masters fear. 1t is one of the inspiring
motives that have led to the seizure of
the industrial college funds by the liter
airy corporations. And the pity of it all
is that the Indifference of the farmers
to their rights and duties in this matter
is quite equal to the greed of those who
have despoiled them.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07
S ? E CT FIG s .
FOR SALE.

The premises ON State street now occupied by
Charles A. Barnard, situated between the dwelling
houses of Charles Dewey and George W. Reed. and
of house, shed and barn, with about one
fourth acre of land. Possession given April Is.
For terms OF payment and price, apply TO GEORGE
W. WING, Room 4. Union Block, Montpelier, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07

ONE of the editorial staff of Rural
Life, our excellent Iowa contemporary
has lately been down South; and this is
what he says about the colored schools
"One of the features of our short stay
at Port Gibson was visit to the court
house, where the county school superin-
tendent was conducting an examina-
ton of teachers for the colored schools.
The teachers were all colored, and the
examination was fully as rigid as any
that are held in Iowa. We also visited
one of the colored schools. The chill
dren recite fully as we'll as our own,
and seem to learn rapidly and easily.
One goes away from the South with
much kinder feelings towards the peo-
pie than they could ever have enter
tanned without whiting and being re-
ceived by them, and the school system
is one of the causes. The white peo-
pie are fully alive to the necessity of
educating the growing generation of
colored children, and they magnani-
mously divide the school revenues
equally with the blacks. This is the
case in every town we have visited.
The board of directors is usually COM
posed of whites, who direct affairs the
same as in their own schools. All of
the towns have colored churches, many
of them small, though there are some
quite pretentious in STYLE"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07
Editorial NOtings.

EX. SENATOR EDMUNDs is a good.
enough democrat for us. His recently
expressed opinions on the subject of
trusts, corporations, and other crying
abuses in public affairs, were exactly to
the point. We may be mistaken; but
we have notion that the reason why
the republican vote fell off so generally
not only in Vermont and Maine, but
in many other states, was that so little
that is effective has been done to put
down the trusts, cleo and other frauds
and abuses about which the people have
been complaining for so many years in
vain.
WHETHER the democrats will do any
better remains to be seen. We cannot
say that we have any very sanguine
hopes in the matter. Politicians are
"pretty much of muchness," no mat
ter which flag they profess to train
under. The rich corporations can buy
them up; and while they may make
some weak and Ineffective laws, nomi-
nally for the peoples benefit, it is very
doubtful whether the people will reap
any great advantage from what they
do. But, after all, it is the peoples
fault. We think too much of party
names; and the leaders of both parties
keep on fooling us with false promises.
Perhaps the time may come when the
voters will show themselves in solid
and solemn earnest. The colored man,
as subject for party strife, is about
used up. We hope the laboring white
men, and especially the farmers, whose
present condition of servitude to spec
ulators and venal politicians of every
stripe is ever before us, will have their
innings. The tillers of the soil, whether
black or white, have hard time of it..
They produce about all the food and
clothing and most of the wealth of the
country; but mighty little of the latter
stays with any of them. We all admit
that the negroes Of the South can never
be really free until they are better
educated. How is it with the white
man? The mournful thing is, or seems
to be, that it is impossible to get the
average workingman to understand the
importance of the matter. They all
see that they have very little real in
fuence or power in public affairs-that
they are the victims of all sorts of
sinful games'-yet to unite them in
any strong and steady purpose to right
their own wrongs has always proved
practically impossible. We have spent
uncounted and uncountable millions to
right the wrongs of the colored man,
and we believe it was we'll spent; but
when shall we take hold of our duty in
the same resolute way to right our
selves? No bloodshed is necessary;
but steady, resolute, intelligent earnest
ness is necessary. The idea of a
farmers party" is both impracticable
and useless. But to attend to our own
duty and interests in selecting, and in
sisting on electing, the right men-in-
telligent, honest, faithful men-as the
candidates of our own party, whichever
it may be, is the plain duty of every
man on the farm.