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RELIGIOUS READING.
THE NEW YEAR OF SALVATION.

THE NEW YEAR OF SALVATION.
The centuries are rolling on.
Our great redemption draweth nearer,
And each successive era brings
A light diviner, purer, c.earer.
The shadows soon shall pass away
From distant climes and isles OF ocean;
Where pagan altars stand today
Shall rise the songs of pure devotion.
The world is waiting in amaze
To catch the great inspiring wonder;
We hear the sweet, glad sonrs OF praise
Above earth's t;lmult and it thunder.
Soon from the millions of redeemed, ,
Earths ransomed throng of sons and
daughters,
A chorus grand shall chant His name
AS the glad sound Of many waters.
The toiling world at last shall rest,
No more to suffer or to lapguisb,.
And every heart with sin oppressed
Shall find balm for all its anguish.
Oh. Sabbath of eternal rest,
Hasten to bless each toiing nation;
Roll on. We tardy wheels of time,
And usher in the great salvation!
Mrs. NJ. A. Cato, in American Messenger.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-02-10

A MOB in Iowa lynched Swede ac-
cused of murder. The Sheriff Of the
county recently died, and on his
death-bed confessed himself the MUIR
derer. "The best citizens" who COM
mitted this crime, should be brought
to book.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-02-10

ALL evil shuns the light; all good
courts it. 1t is homage which even
the worst men pay to goodness that
they strive to hide their lack Of it,
and pretend to share in it whenever
such pretense Is, possible.
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The Most Pleasant Way

OF preventing the grippe, colds, headaches,
and fevers is to use the liquid laxative rem
edy, Syrup Of Figs, whenever tho system
needs gentle, yet effective cleansing. To
be benefited one must get the true remedy
manufactured by the California Fig Sy rup
Co. only. For sale by all druggists in 5oc.
apd c1 hoftloa
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The 'Barley Syndicate" Of Chicago,
ILL.,, has purchased 250, 900 acres of land
il North Dakota on which to settle Ger
mans to grow barley for malt pur-
poses,
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The use of the bridal veil originated
in the custom OF performing the nuptial
ceremony under square piece OF cloth
held between the faces of the bride and
Bridegroom to conceal the blushes OF the
former.
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State OF OHIO, C1TY OF TOLEDO, a.

Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he Is the
senior partner Of the firm Of =. ]. Cheney q
Co., doing business in the City OF Toledo,
County and State Aforesaid, and that said firm
will pay the sum of 500 for each and every
case Of catarrh that cannot be cured by the
use Of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. D., lss6.
~, A. w. GLEASON.
t@~' Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for testimonials, free.
F.J. CHENEY e. Co., Toledo, q.
r Sold hy DRUGGISTS. 76c.
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In Memory Of the Black Hawk War.
The "BIack Hawk War;" in 1882,
was one of the fercest Indian struggles
ever waged. The famous chief held
lands in Northern Illinois and Southern
Wisconsin. In memory of the battle OF
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II ] pair Is wanted send stl
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FOR THE CHILDREN.

little girl suffered for from large Abss on her hip the
puss s. the the fifth bottle
healed, and the child well and
Saanzan, Pa
Ibadth Blood
att
tothe s.
ewasw D. Ma,hasIH, La
for Children relieves the promptly and ass
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SWIFT rspFrTP .ATraNr
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II have been occasionally troubled with
Coughs, and in each case have used BROWNS
BRONCHIAL TRocHEs, which have never
failed, and must ray they are second to none
in the world.-Feltr A. Maa, Cashier, St Pau,
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IL you are constipated, bilious or troubled
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"peared, and since that time I
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II can eat anything without the
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"that are afflicted with that terrible
"disease or the troubles caused by
cit would try August Flower, as I
"am satisfied there is no medicine
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Flower

Mr.. Lorenzo F. Sleeper is very
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ton, Me-, and neighborhood. He
says: Eight years ago Twas taken
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"dyspeptic can. then began tax.
"iug August Flower. At that time
"I was a great sufferer. Every.
"thing I ate distressed me so that !
chad to throw it up. Then in
"few moments that horrid distress
"would come on and would have
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little of your med.
"icine, and feltmuch
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/" August Flower my
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l5affiScted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp-
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Farm Land

In s. Oak. fine rich soil, and such land as will be
worth $50 an acre inside Of five years can now be
bought for IS to s6 an acre. For special bargains
write to CHAS. l.. HYDE, Pierre, 8. Oak.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-25

MR. REEDS WORK AT THE VERMONT CON-
MENTIONS.
vermont State Journal.1
The presence of Hon. Thomas B. Reed
of Maine gave these party meetings a
flavor and animus that will be carried
by every delegate and spectator into ev-
cry town and school district in the state.
The leaven of his addresses at Montpe-
lier, Burlington and Rutland, borne to
every hamlet in the state, will leaven the
whole lump Of Vermont RepubEcanism,
and there will be mighty rising by the
first Tuesday in September. The cold
types can only family convey the enliven-
ing effects of Mr.. Reeds spoken words.
His manner, his presence, his sallies of
wit, his sparkling sarcasm, his cutting
satire, his inimitable way of putting
things, contribute to make him the most
effective stump-speaker in the country.
So brilliant combination of talents, all
of the first rank, is not found in one per-
son once in a century. His characterize
ton of modern democracy in his speech
before the state convention was so con-
summately cool, sarcastic and merciless,
one was almost inclined to pity the OBJ
jects against which his shining shafts
were leveled. TWAS, nevertheless, SO
clever, so clean, SO entirely free from
malace, so permeated by wit and good
humor, its yictims-if any were present
must have smiled an unwilling tribute
to the speakers powers Of delineation.
Cheers and peals of laughter, frequent
and prolonged, greeted the speakers
happy hits and incompatible sallies. It
was an occasion long to be remembered.
His speech in the afternoon dealt more
largely with matters of fact but the fires
of his unquenohable wit and humor
struggled through and illumined with
their light and made very attractive so
dry matter as tariff discussion. Yer
monters will want to hear Tom Reed
again before the September election,
and with him his great co-worker, VIM.
Mckinley of Ohio. We trust the oppor-
tunity will be provided.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-25
CONCERNING BOOKS.
BY e. CAVAZzA.

Selected Poems by Walt Whitman.
The greatest service which can be rem
dered to man is to show him at his
best; and this is the pious Office which
has been performed for Walt Whitman
at the extreme days of his life-the vol
ume issuing from the press after the po-
cts death-by his editor, Mr.. Arthur
Stedman. Mutual concessions were to
be made before Whitman's work could
become acceptable to the public; and in
arranging these cancellations the tact and
sympathy of Mr. Stedman have been
equal to the occasion. The public is
sometimes over-afraid of the unaccus-
toned and displays too prompt prude-
ry; but it was quite right in demanding
that Mr.. Whitman should respect the
natural and wholesome reserve of spirit
and body. Esthetically, too, there was
cause to protest against the negations of
form and of criterion, the riotous democ-
racy of things and of words-each as
good as another in the sight of Walt
Whitman, and the short hand reports
of the universe which he offered as poet
ry. These faults lent themselves to
parody, for those whose loved him not;
while his friends have too much insisted
upon the value of his peculiarities of
manner. They have mistaken his rude
nesses for proofs of his strength; they
have reflected too readily the admiration
Of certain English critics-as Mr.. Swim
burne, Mr.. W. M. Rosetti, Mr.. Adding
ton Symonds-who hailed from their old
world refnements this voice which
seemed to them American because it was
novel, exaggerated, semi barbaric. Also
another cause of conformation of Whit
mans offences toward the art of poetry,
may be looked for in the present tenden-
cy to confuse the limits of the several
arts in order to mingle them, as in
Wagner's operas, where the orchestra
reasons like Schepenhauer, while the
personages declaim, as it were, footnotes
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-25

from the lowest to the highest as with a
broom.
1t is fair to assume, and it is no doubt
the case, that in a city as intelligent as
Portland, the great mass of the
voters desire above all things else that
the municipal administration shall be
honest and efficient. 1t is fair to pre-
sumo that when they change the admin
istration from one party to another they
do 50 with the idea that the change will
in some way promote efficiency, and
therefore it is fair to presume that when
they have made such change they de-
sire the responsibility to be put upon
the party which they have placed in
power. There is nothing improper, there
fore, indeed it is highly proper, that
whichever party is placed in power
should have have the selection of the
heads OF the important departments.
Unless it does the party in power cannot
be held responsible for the management
OF municipal affairs. But this is some
thing very different from a clean sweep
'of AL the clerks and assistants whose
outes are largely clerical, and to learn
which experience is necessary. The
people never intend when they shift the
responsibility of municipal government
from one party to another that all the
men who are familiar with the details Of
the management of the various offices,
with the routine. shall be swept out of
office. Such an Interpretation of their
intention would be equivalent to saying
that they wanted to reduce the efficiency
OF the administration for that must newt
ably be the effect of such course. The
people doubtless intend when they dele
gate the management of their municipal
affairs to certain men that they shall be
responsible, but how can they fairly be
held responsible if an organization like
the Young Mems Democratic Club can
step in and dictate to the head of the
most important department of the gov
ernment how his Office shall be run and
who shall run it? Such power as this
club has attempted to assume would de-
stroy all personal responsibility for mu-
nicipal government, or would render it
impossible to ever get a self-respecting
man to accept any municipal Office where
assistants were needed.
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TO TILE
Manufacturers and Producers
OF MAINE.

Y am now ready to receive applications for space
4 for exhibits at the Worlds Columbian EXPOSE
Der 81, 1898. Applications must be fled be.
fore July, LIST, and should be filed at once.
There VIII be no cha ge for space. Return
freight free. Exhibitors are required to place
their exhibits in position but are not required
70 furnish attendants. ALL exhibitors of manu-
tactured goods, natural products and live
ready for shipment Nov. i, 1892. For blank
application and further information, address
CHARLES P. MATT0CKS, Executive Commits
Portland, Maine. apr23d3t
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THE YOUNG MEMS DEMOCRATIC
CLUB AND THE CITY TREASURY.

The demand Of the Young Mems
Democratic Club that the city treasurer
discharge all the clerks in his Office and
supply their places with Democrats
shows that there is a good deal more
work to be done before the idea is en-
tirely rooted out of the public mind that
a public office is simply party spoil, and
that the first duty of the man at the
head of it is to see that all the salaries
appertaining to it are drawn by people
who are members of the party that won
the election. If Mr.. Walker had been
elected treasurer of large insurance
company or a railroad corporation, and
had signalized his advent to the position
by making clean sweep of all the clerks
in the office who were familiar with the
details of the business and supplying
their places with men who knew nothing
about them because theywere Baptists OF
Congregationalists there is not member
of the Young Mems Democratic Club who
would not have regarded him as very
indiscreet, if not stupid person. They
would have said, How foolish Mr.. Walker
is to discharge from an Office, the details
of which he is not himself familiar with,
and for the correct management of
which he is under very heavy pecuniary
responsibility, all the men who know the
business and who have proved their COM
potency and honesty, and to supply their
places with men who are not familiar
with it simply because they are of the
same religious faith as himself. And if
trouble had ensued in the management
of the Office they would all of them have
said it was Mr.. Walkers own fault, that
he ought to have known that he was as
Stunning great risk in acting contrary to
the dictates, of ordinary prudence and
common sense. There isn't one of these
young men, but would have reasoned
correctly in regard to an Office in no way
related to politics.
Why is it that they reason SO absurdly
OR to put the case as it probably is
do not reason at all in regard to the city
treasurership? 1t is simply because they
have become indoctrinated with the idea
that the first qualification for public
Office is not efficiency and knowledge of
the business of the Office, but certain
form of political belief. 1t is the result
of that miserable idea which neither
party is entirely responsible for, and the
opprobrium of which both have share
in, that a political election is chiefly for
the purpose of determining whether Dem
ocrats or Republicans shall hold the
Offices and that the successful party is
under obligation to sweep out all officials
who happen to be of the opposite party
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-25

imaginative and romantic eloquence, in a
series of striking and often powerful
scenes. Boston: Houghton, Miff1in &
Co.; Portland: Loring, Short & Har-
mon. Price $1.25.)
My Guardian. BY Ada Cambridge.
A very readable novel by a we'll practiced
hand. Of course the twenty years Of
seniority on the guardians part counted
less when the golden-haired ward at
tanned seventeen than when she was only
seven; and the end is easily foreseen by
the reader of romances. The story runs
smoothly throug pleasant scenes of Eng
fish life; and is written in an unaffected
and bright manner. The latter chapters
tend somewhat toward the sensational in
plot; there appears certain hardness in
the mode of taking away the poor youth
whose existence was the obstacle to the
happiness of hero and heroine. 1t is a
tragic episode which. if it were treated
at its real value, would overweight the
slight structure of the story; and in any
case appears inartistic. However, the
stories of Ada Cambridge have always
Qualities which make them deservedly
popular. (New York: D. Appleton d
Co.; Portland: Loring, Short q Har-
mon.) M
The Unseen Friend. By Lucy Lar
com. This beautiful little white and
gold volume contains group of thought
full and spiritual essays by Miss Larcom.
She believes that ''the WEAKNESS and sad
ness Of life come from persistently clos
ing our eyes to its greatness-from for
getting who we are and to whom we are
allied" And since life is fed from un
known sources" and by an unknown
Love, the essayist has wished in this vol
ume to study the tokens and emotions
by which mankind may assure itself Of
friendship with the Lord. The delicate
fervor and mysticism of the New Eng
land nature of Miss Larcom are expressed
in these meditations, which will prove &C
ceptable to many readers. Boston:
Houghton, Mif1in 6 Co.; Portland: Lor-
ing, Short'S Harmon. Price $1.oo.)
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-25
WORKROOM SALE.

TElhe eleventh annual sale of garments made
April 25th under Falmouth Hotel The as
sortment Of children's dresses is larger and pref
tier than at any previous sale. Sale continues
one week. apr23d1ws
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-25

San Salvador. By Mary Agnes Thick
er. In these days when everyone who
has social theory embodies it in fiction,
Miss Thicker also has built and decor
ated her castle in Spain. To this strong
hold and its feudal town, perched some
where among the. Spanish mountains,
comes a beautiful girl to seek there her
klnsfolk. This city is governed by the
laws of Christ, without sects or formal
worship; while it's civic business is done
by act of ruler and three counsellors,
who direct a we'll defined social system.
The author has embodied in this romance
her views upon great many subjects,
more or less practical, all presented with
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-25

The result of the recent election in
Louisiana has left the two wings of the
Democracy more bitter than ever. The
McEnery wing allege they were out
rageously cheated, and some of them are
cow talking Of bringing the election to
the attention of Congress on the plea
that Louisiana does not have republi-
can form of government. There seems
to be no doubt that there was cheating
by the wholesale and that the McEnery
crowd got the worst of it. There is this
to be said of it, however, that the cheat
ing was in rather better cause than has
usually been the case in the Pelican
state.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-25

So far the Prohibitionists have OBJ
tanned 1877 pledges of people to vote the
Third Party ticket in this State.
The Maine quota is 10,67s. As
the Prohibition vote in the
State in 1890 was nearly 5000 it looks as
though the party was not very. enthusi-
astic over the personal pledge campaign.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-25
THE PRESS.
MONDAY, APRIL Is.

The House has concluded to put stop
TO the filing of the Record with speeches
not actually spoken on the floor. This
will have very depressing effect upon
the numerous congressman who have
electrified their constituents by means of
speeches which somebody had written
for them.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-25
CURRENT COMMENT.

MIR. REEDS woRK AT THE VERMONT CON-
MENTIONS.
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imaginative and romantic eloquence, in a
series of striking and often powerful
scenes. Boston: Houghton, Miff1in &
Co.; Portland: Loring, Short d Har-
mon. Price S1.25.)
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-07-06
His Famous Cook.

Last week two men each looking for q
cook met ON Woodward avenue and had
talk on hired help. This week they
met again.
"Did you find cookY" asked the first.
mo. Did your
Eyes. I've got one."
"Any good?'
"Best ever had In the house."
mo! Where did you find herr
"Down in Ohio"
"Have to go after her YOURSELF"
"Yes."
"How did you happen to hear of herr"
"a friend of mine told me about her
first, and | wrote to her on a venture"
"How did you ever persuade her to
come so far from homer"
BLESSED if know, but she seems per-
fectly well satisfied now"
"Do you think could get mate to
her at the same placer
"Well, no, think not"
"Whyr'
"There isn't another like her, should
say"
"Who is she?"
"My wife"
"Oh," said the other man, and when
he came home he went right ont into
his kitchen and kissed the cook four
times, and his wife really seemed to
think he was doing the proper thing
Detroit Free Press.