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The Portland daily press., 1892-01-23
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The Portland daily press., 1892-01-23

1t is not at all likely that Senator STAN
ford, even with the powerful aid of Sena-
tor PETER, will ever get his scheme for
Ioaning the governments money to farm
ers on mortgages any farther along
toward enactment than it is now. 1t
sounds somewhat plausible as explained
by Mr.. Stanford, but it will not bear the
test of critical examination. The gov
eminent has no money of its own; it is a
pauper dependent upon the people for
support It has no right to take directly
the money contributed for it's support and
turn it over to farmers or anybody else to
keep them out of financial troubles. And
if it has no right to do this directly, it
has no right to do it indirectly by such a
scheme as Senator Stanford's. Support
ing the people is not the business of the
government.
The Portland daily press., 1892-01-23

The advocates of license law should
make known their reasons for thinking
that law of that kind can be enforced
better than prohibitory statute. In
ability to enforce is one of their chief
objections to the latter, and therefore it
is fair to assume that they would not be
favoring license law unless they had
some reason to believe that that could
be enforced more thoroughly. A law
that applies to everybody impartially,
like prohibitiory law, would seem to
be easier of enforcement than law
which grants privileges to some, while
it denies the same privileges to others,
like license law. Laws of the latter
kind contain an element of injustice
which inevitably arouses opposition.
But perhaps liquor license laws form an
exception.
The Portland daily press., 1892-01-23
STANDARD
CLOTHING
COMPANY.
EOPLE will read.
Ii advertisements

vi UiAC DlS StOTtS VI UAAC
cities east and west are
selling stocks of new and
faultless merchandise for
more or less than half its
value. One 0ver-heated
advertiser, pity he isn't
i'm POrtland--What a rush
you would make for him,
puts it exactly AZ 1-2 cts.
ON the dOllar--the most
bewildering, astounding
and astonishing bargains
ever known in America.
Half a million dollars
worth, he needn't have
called it a S'bankrupt'
sale. Another specifies
housekeeping lines direct
from the makers 3S 1-3
per cent off usual prices,
and takes a great square
place in his city papers to
say it. Another calls it a
January closing sale and
fills whole columns and
pages almost, with lists of
things to be sold for so
littIe--s0 littIe--s0 little.
Why, has the bottom
dropped out of every
thing?
Not a bit of it. Trade
was never i'm better
health. We venture to
speak Tor the merchants
you look to for goods, for
trade information for the
value of things.
It's only a way of speak
ing they have. The time
of the year is a little dull.
They are making it lively.
There's something i'm the
cry though. There are
goods to be got for less
than a week ago. there
always are.
We don't like this way
of advertising by jumping
and yelling and getting
red i'm the face. We had
a great deal rather tell the
news about our clothing
stock i'm January just the
same as we tell it i'm Octo-
Der or any other month,
let the difference be i'm the
news and not i'm the tell
ing.
We are not going to lose
our head the first of the
year and then forget rash
promises.
We are going to keep
the centre Of the Portland
clothing trade exactly
where it belongs. Where
you and we together have
put it. WE are going to
keep it we say. Now
don't misunderstood us.
ALI WE have to do i'm the
matter is to have the kind
of clothing you want, and
keep it down hill this way
from everywhere. No
body seems to understand
your wants quite SO well.
At least nobody satisfies
| them SO well. The people
The Portland daily press., 1892-01-23

Unsupported charges against com
munity which has borne good charac-
ter by person whose character is ac-
knowledged to be bad are not entitled to
much credence, especially if there exist a
selfish motive for making them. This
was the character of the charge brought
in the Boston Herald against the Alfred
Shakers. The girl that made the state
ment was admittedly unruly and way
ward, and had been sent to the Shakers
to be trained up in the way she should
90. She found the path irksome, and in
a short time ran away, and then, probably
to excuse her conduct and to prevent be-
ing sent back, told the story of cruelty
and immortality. To be sure there was
an attempt to back up the story with
alleged statements from prominent citi-
zens, but how prominent they were the
public was prevented from judging by
the suppression of their names. Ger
tainly until the names of these persons are
given and the public allowed to judge Of
their credibility, sensible people will be
likely to accept the statement of the
Alfred Shakers that the stories are en-
tirely untrue.
The Portland daily press., 1892-01-23

This is in time of peace. If lighting is
to De done the expense will OF course pe
Vastly increased. Repairs may run lnto
the hundreds of thousands OF collars
after an engagement, while the cost or
firing one broadside from ship IKE the the
Cnlcago,. 800 pounds of metal at one d1s-
cslafge from four guns, is about SOU.
1t Is easy to see that day ngntlng
with fleet of such cruisers would make
a big hole in the pocket Of even as rlch a
magnate OF the earth as our Uncle sam.
WALTER WEII4MAN.
The Portland daily press., 1892-01-23
CLOTHING,

that come here answer for
that--expect the very
same thing right along.
ALI the anxiety we have
to sell we put IN THE
PRICES.
Mems and young mems
nice suits, sack or
fr0ck, our best styles,
very small lots, put ON
left centre cOunter---
there were 137 suits a few
days ago. Ten suits a day
is the record of sales SO
far, $40, $12 and SIS is
the price for them.
Big lot of Boys Knee
Pants just come from our
factory. This is the sea-
son for odd Pants and
this is the heaquarterS
for them; so, rs, 81,
$1.5O and 80.
We are offering GOOD
Overcoats for Large Boys
at VERY low prices--S2. so
1918, S., also at $3.50,
81, s. and $40.
We're always glad to
wait on you. Come.
The Portland daily press., 1892-01-23
UNCLE SANS SHIPS.

Beautiful Models That Are Attracting
General Attention-What 1t Costs to
Build and Man Modern War Vessel.
Guns and Armor Plate.
The Portland daily press., 1892-01-23
-DYe -. B. Reed
BOTANIC AND CLAIRVOYANT PHYSICIAN

No 800 LIZ Congress Street, Portland.
For the treatment of all chronic and compi-
Gated diseases that flesh is heir to, all cases
given up as incurable, L will take them to make
cure.
DIR. Reed will not ask you any questions in
any way in regard to your diseases and after
YOU have a true examination of your case he
will tell you if you can be cured DIR, Reeds
each case, he thinks he can tell the difference
between person afflicted with disease or a
person becoming an entranced medium. There
their lives BY making the above mistake. Ex-
aminatons at my office every day including Sun
day from 8 a. M, to p. m. Examination by
letter stating their name, place or residence and
age and one stamp, $1.00. my22d9m
The Portland daily press., 1892-01-23
Portland Masonic Relief As
ISOLATION

A Special meeting of the Portland Masonic
N Relief Association will be held at the
office of the association No. 85 Exchange street,
Portland. Maine, on Saturday, January %,
1892 AT 7. 80 D. M, to hear the report of the
committee appointed at the annual meeting; to
receive any propositions to amend bylaws,
and 10 act /. The proposed amendment to
fine bylaws Per order of the President.
jan18d1W ALBRo L. CHASE. CLERK.
The Portland daily press., 1892-01-23

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 fhe Maine
Non-Forfeiture Law. oct24eodd
The Portland daily press., 1892-01-23

Senator Hill should put apatent safety coup
Ter upon his presidential boom. 1t is getting to
be an unWieldly thing for those VINO are trying
to engineer it.-Auburn Gazette.
Hills boom appears to be in much bet
ter condition at present than Mr.. Cleve-
lands. Hill has got the pivotal State in
his pocket, he has got himself on both
sides of the silver question, he has all the
experienced fuglers of the Democratic
party, like German and Brice, on his
side, and he has just succeeded in hav-
ing the national convention located in
Chicago against the protest of MI. Villas,
who is recognized as one of Mr.. Cleve-
lands chief managers.
The Portland daily press., 1892-01-23

Senior Months statement to a New
York Herald correspondent that no ill
feeling exists in Chill toward the United
States probably refers only to the gov
erning and higher classes of the country.
That there is i'll feeling on the part of
the rabble at least of Santiago and Val
paraiso seems to be as well established
as anything can be by circumstantial evil
dence. The assault upon our sailors,
unless the report of that affair made by
our officers was ridiculously incorrect,
could have had it's origin only in hatred
The Portland daily press., 1892-01-23
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY, JANUARY %.

The selection of Chicago as the place
for holding the national Democratic con-
vention is interpreted as victory for
Hill, though why is not clear, unless it is
because the ex-governor's friends, the
rumsellers. are very numerous in that
city.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-17
ABOUT PERFUMES.
Connoisseurs Who Can Name Zach Era.
grant Odor.

Ccnnoisseurs Who Can Name Each Era
grant Odor.
The learned in scents claim that they
can distinguish and name each element
of any compound odor, just as the mu-
sician can discriminate and trace the
sound of the various Instruments that
are rendering the crowded symphony,
says Harper's Bazar. Doubtless these
learned ones could distinguish, on com
ing into lady's drawing-room all the
various breaths imprisoned in the pot
pourri jar-thc rose leaves, the cassia
buds, the orange flowers, the orris root,
the vanilla, the benzoni and cinnamon
and musk and alcohol, and all the in
Vulnerable rest. But to the ignorant in
such fine points the pleasure is perhaps
just as keen, let the learned deny it as
they may. Yet many think themselves
accomplished in this branch whose
education is still very far from finished.
We remember, at the time of famous
Oriental exhibition in this country,
when people were possessed with the
delights of the altar of roses to be
bought there, that the Oriental stock
of altar ran out, and it was replenished
from Yankee dealers stock of oil of
geranium, and the sale continued Just
as before, entirely undiminished, and
with warm adulation of the strange,
rich sweetness of the real Turkish and
Persian altar of roses. And although
the oil of geranium is undoubtedly a
rich perfume, yet the crafty Orientals
must have laughed in their loose sleeves
at the way in which il took the place of
the at once far richer, and more deli
cate, and four times more costly object
of the bulbul's worship.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-17
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We willcontinue to offer this great paper
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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-17
WoMAN'S YEAR TO SPEAK.

The Privilege of Proposing in Leap Year
Originated In the Reign Of Margaret.
Colin Shackleford said: "Some one
asked me the other day what was the
origin of women proposing marriage
during leap year. I looked it up, and
while it may not be new to all dare
say it will interest many. In the year
1928 statute was published by the
Scotch parliament, of which the follow
ing is a copy, and Is, to my mind, the
origin Of the custom or idea. l do not
know that it is the custom or ever was:
"'It is ordaint that during the reign
Of Her Maist Blessit Majestic Margaret,
like maiden, ladee of bath high and
low estate, shall hae liberty to speak to
the man she likes. Gif he refuses to
take her to be his wyf, he shale be
mulct in the sum of ane hundredity
pounds or less, as his estate may be-,
except and alwais gift he can make it
appear that he is betroht to another
woman, then he shall be free'
AFTER the dear old Margaret had
passed away the women became clam
orous for their privileges, and to ap-
pease them another act of parliament
allowed them the privilege every fourth
year."
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-17
WOMEN or NERVE.

Two Of Them Chase n Pickpockct and
Recover a PocketbooiS.
1t is not one time in hundred that a
woman has the forethought and pres
ence of mind to chase pickpocket and
recover her property instead of scream
ing for the police, asserts the Boston
journal.
There were two such p]ucky women
on Washington street the other after
noon, however. They We're near a
crowded corner, when one of them felt
q hand in her pocket. She made a grab
for the hand, but it and her pocket-
book were missing. With a rush she
was after the thief, whom she grabbed
right in the midst of team traffic on
Washington street, which was for the
time delayed. The horses of one car
thrust their heads against the woman
and her captive. Hey friend was an
able second, and laid a hand on the
other shoulder Of the pickpocket, a
young man some twenty-five years of
age. "You fiend!" cried the other, "givc
up that pocketbools!" This was too
much for the fellows nerves, and he
quickly pulled it out and handed it
over. The women "let CO." and the
man disappeared up the street on dead
run, while the teams once m ore moved
on in unbrolken procession.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-17
A NEW ll-LUElNAHT,
Platinum Suaces ted as Rival of Eles
trlcIty.

Platinum SueEes ted as a Rival of Elec.
troity.
new lamp whose projectors are en-
thusiastic enough to hint rather broadly
that it is to be the rival of the electric
light is described in the French papers,
says Electricity. "a small ribbon of
platinum foil, rolled upon itself in the
form of a cylinder and inclosed in re-
ceptacle of the same material, is pro-
vided. gaseous mixture consisting of
alr and vapors of certain hydro cartons
is slowly urged through the apparatus
and ignited, with tho result that the
platinum ribbon becomes incandes-
cent" This incandescence is main
tanned by continuing the current of
mixed gases, and, as the story goes, it
rivals in brilliancy that of the electric
glow lamp"
We do not know how seriously this
plan is proposed, but lest some one of
our readers might be misled by such
claims it may be we'll to call attention
to few facts. In the first place, early
experiments with incandescent electric
lamps proved that platinum. to give the
same brilliancy US the carbon now
used, must be heated to a degree so
near its melting point as to cause a
rapid change in it's molecular structure,
which soon causes it to break down.
In the second place, this phenomenon
OF maintenance of an incandcscent
state by an atmosphere containing hy-
drogen or hydrocarbon gases has long
been well known and was employed
by Sir Humphrey Davy to maintain
light in his safety lamp after the flame
had been eXtinguished. 1t is equally
we'll known that brilliant incandes-
cence cannot be obtained in this way,
and, lastly, were there no other diff
culties in the way, where is all the
platinum to come from?
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-17
Etiquette In Quito.

1t is customary in the town of Quito.
when visitor takes off his hat upon
entering q room, to beg him to put it
on again; and, in tho absence of per-
mission, leave is generally requested.
This, it is said, arises from apprehen-
sion that cold will be taken by remain
ing uncovered. The same persons upon
going out of doors take off their hats TO
flashes of lightning, no matter whether
rain is falling; and, when the streets
are busy and lightning is abundant, q
grotesquc effect is produced by these
salutations, which seem to be regarded
as duty by well-behaved persons, and
are performed Us punctiliously as the
homage which is paid to religious pro-
cessions when they are in sight.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-17
The Thinness of u Bubble

The most powerful microscopes
render visible a point about l-lOo, COO
part of an inch in diameter There is
reason for believing that single mole
culc is much smaller even than that.
One reason for this has been de1i1ced
from the soap bubble. Scientists have
measured the thickness of the envelope
OF soapy water inclosing the air of the
bubble when it had become SO thin as
to produce rainbow tints. At the ap--
pearancc of the shade of violet it was
one-forrth the thickness Of the length
OF an ordinary violet wave of light, one
sixty-thousandth of lu inch, thus malS-
ing the thickness equal to onc-tuo.
Observation-Disclosures of an
inch. AS the bubble continued to. ex-
pand a black patch formed adjacent to
the pipe from which the bubble was be-
ing blown, and the thickness of srch
patch has been" found to be only one-
fortieth of the thickness of the violet
section, or about one-ffty-miliionth of
an inch.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-17
A PERSIAN PRINCE.
The Head of n Religious Sect Ho Lives
in Style Mt Bombay.


In Style Mt Bombay.
A Persian prince lives in Bombay of
whom very little is heard, though he is
power in the oriental world. He
w;clds more authority than many
oriental potentatcs. He is at the head
of the Maulai sect of Mohammedans
who are widely scattered over northern
India and the regions north and east of
India. The Maulais regard this refugee
Persian prince as their spiritual head.
or pope. Col. Tanner, who has de-
scribed the inhabitants of the ITimalayas
recently says that were this prince to
return to Persia he would speedily lose
his head, though he exercises absolute
spiritual authority over vast number
of followers in the upper Oxus states in
Kashmir, in Burmah, and even in
China. The constituted rulers of these
countries do not influence those of
their people who are members of this
religious sect SO powerfully as does this
far-away prince.
The lowliest Maulai who wanders
over the icy plateau of the Pamir feels
it his duty to subscribe from his scanty
means every year toward tribute to
his spiritual lord Across the snowy
passes which lie between central Asia
and India this tribute is carried and de-
livered, regardless of the difficulties
which for many stages beset the en-
bassies on their journey.
The prince, who, by the way, is ad-
dicted to horse racing, and is one of the
most liberal patrons of the Indian turf,
is one of the descendants of the original
saints so commonly regarded in olden
times by the Persians as persons Of tho
greatest sanctity. He lives in the
greatest luxury. His very large in
come, wholly derived from the annual
, contributions of the faithful, enables
him to occupy fine palace. He has q
large retinue of servants, stable of
fine horses, and all the outward trap
pings Of a very important and wealthy
parsonage. He is far more fortunate
than the princes of the upper Oxus
states, who, within few years, have
been passing under the rapacious rule
of the tyrant of Afghanistan. Under
one pretext or another the leading and
most influential of the upper Oxus
princes have been made way with by
the ameer, and the rest are apparently
destined to meet the same fate at the
hands Of the Afghan ally of Great Brit
ain, whose hands are stepped in the
blood of every man of note in his do
minions whota he considers to be in
imical to his rule.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-17

The grip is reaping many victims
among the pensioners, and large num-
Der of pension Office certificates Ae on
Pension Agent Clements desk unsigned,
having been returned because of the
sudden death of the veterans whose
names are contained therein. Since
quarterly payment day, January q, more
then forty deaths among the pensioners
have been reported to Col Clements,
and in almost every case death was sud-
den, and from the grip. II do not re-
member having heard of so many deaths
among the pensioners in SO short q
time" said Col Clements.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-17
FILlAl DEVOTION,
The Little Girls solicitude for Her BIS
Sister.


Sister.
She was tiny little girl, says the
New York Mail and Express, with !,
dirty, sun-tanned hair, a blue calico
dress and bare feet. She carried in her
arms baby hall as large as herself,
and the baby wes so heavy that it.
sagged down in the middle, giving the.
infant the appearance of being held by
the feet and the napo of the noek.
There was some excitement around tho
corner of the next street, and the chill
dren were hurrying forward like mad
from all directions. The little girl
tried to run, but the baby was too
heavy, and her breath gave out. Said
i, in spirit of badinage:
drop the baby, sis, and go see what
the trouble is"
She stopped and stared at ME.
81 say, put tho baby down on tne
side and run
"Yer raust take ne fer a fool, mis-
ter
"Why?"
"'Cos, this is cur baby
well, suppose it is? I'll stay here
and watch it for you"
mo, you won't, mister. You might
carry it off,
"What if did? Amt you tired car
rying it around and making your bacl,
achc?"
Nav, aint. Say, mister, this is the
only little baby we've got, and if yer
only knowed how she can crow and
laugh yer wouldn't want me to do no
such thing. This baby hain't got no
ma, 'cept me, and pa and me couldn't
do 'thout her. She sets up in high
chair at the table and crows and kicks
while me and pa eats, and at night
rock her to sleep like ma used to do.
When ma died the baby didn't know no
better, but just laughed and hollered,
and cried so couldn't keep her still
Put her down on the sidewalk! Fool
killer I'll git You. mister, ef yer stay
around here long"