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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26
cURTIs MEMORIAL HALL.

zen he was He took especial interest in
educational matters, and though little
was said about it while he lived it now
appears that in proportion to his means
he was very liberal. His name, there
fore, is now honored by his neighbors by
being bestowed on various institutions,
and Curtis Memorial hall is to be
erected.
A public school in West New Brighton
is known as the Curtis school. The
Staten Island academy, founded in 1884,
was another object of interest to Mr..
Curtis, and as it has outgrown it's present
and original quarters at Stapleton a
new building is to be erected, and the
memorial hall will be in connection with
this. The building is to be at New
Brighton, the central point for the east
and north shores of the island, and is to
be fashioned after the Tudor style, the
schoolrooms occupying the central or
main port on, which is to be fanked by
projecting wings.
The west wing constitutes large ly-
ceum hall, and this is to be the Curtis
Memorial hall. 1t opens into the main
schoolroom by doors which can be closed
to exclude all noise when the hall is
needed for other purposes, and has also
two outside entrances. The plans indi-
cate that it will be very complete af-
fair, containing stage, dressing and recep-
ton rooms and a large seating capacity,
including q balcony on three sides. In the
basement will be a gymnasium and rec
reation room for the boys, with cloak
and toilet rooms.
The opposite wing is to be used for the
Arthur Winter Memorial library, which
was founded in 1885 by Mr.. William
Winter, the poet and scholar, and his
wife in memory Of their son Arthur.
Mr.. Winter is president Of the board of
trustees of the academy, and was the
close associate and personal friend for
many years of Mr.. Curtis, which makes
this conjunction especially appropriate.
Thus the entire structure will in time
comprise a memorial to Mr.. Winter as
well as to Mr.. Curtis and an academy in
which both were interested.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26

The story is very curious. The cir
cular window had been without glass
for some time when Father Jones Or
dered new one from the only store in
the village and had it put in place. The
sun was shining full on the glass when
the glazier left it, and few minutes
later little girl on the opposite side of
the street cried out, s'Oh, see the pretty
pictured"
Passersby followed the line of her
pointing finger and saw the image in the
glass. A crowd collected, and Father
Jones, the village priest, was sent for.
He saw it and so did all the rest, but
Catholic priests are as rule very wary
of giving encouragement to such things,
and he decided that it was in the glass
originally. He had that glass taken out
and another put in. but the picture came
again, not so boldly outlined as before
but still plain enough to be recognized
Father Jones then went up inside thu
spire and looked through the glass. but
on that side it was perfectly clear and
free from lines of any kind.
Bishop Cotter. Of that diocese, was then
consulted and pronounced it delusion,
and as thousands Of people were crowd
ind the little village to see the wonder he
ordered the glass taken out. Meanwhile
an invalid suffering from an incurable
disease entered the church to pray and
went away completely cured, as he al
legged. This started second pilgrimage.
A boy with curvature of the spine en-
tered the church and went away straight
and sound Then all the cripples and
invalids of that section thronged to Can
ton, and at last accounts the little vii
Iage of four or five hundred people was
literally overcrowded with the lame.
sick, blind and MANNED.
1t is, to say the least, a puzzling affair.
It is a standing rule in the Catholic
church that no event is to be considered
miraculous until every possible natural
explanation is disproved and every real
sonable doubt destroyed. One explana-
ton, and the one generally accepted by
skeptics, is. that some talented photog-
rapher or manipulation of lenses has been
amusing himself by transferring an
image from some distant point of van
tage, the process being the same as that
used in producing the stage GHOSTS. "
which excited such wonder some twenty
years ago. But what about the 'cures'
of which over a score are now reported?
It's very pretty problem as it stands.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26

It will be patterned after the old
Swedish cathedrals and consist of a
main floor and gallery, will have a south
front of 1854 feet and be made entirely of
wood cut and prepared in Sweden and
shipped to Chicago in sections. Rising
above the center Of the front elevation
will be a characteristic old Swedish
tower ECO feet high. In this building
the entire history and progress of
Sweden from the stone age to the pres
emit time will be illustrated by series Of
relics, drawings and specimens of the
mechanic arts OF the successive eras.
The Northern museum of Sweden will
send portion Of it's treasures to Illus
trate the country's progress, and there
will be fine display of the present min
ing, manufacturing, dairying and other
products. Sweden will make no exhibit
in the line of fisheries, Aaving that en-
tirely to Norway. Thus all the pursuits
of the Scandinavian kingdom will be
well represented.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26
Not a Traveller.


There are many railroads in the United
States today, yet it is a fact that there
are hundreds of thousands of people
sdults-who have never ridden behind the
steam horse.
Ticket agents are full of the strange in
euiries made of them by green country
people and their efforts to flew" down the
price of ticket as they might pair OF
shoes in country store.
Recently lank West Virginian entered
the ticket Office of the station at Charles
town. and after gazing about him in open
eyed wonder for some time he shufiled up
to the agent and asked:
s'Be you the man as sells tickets"
81 am" was the response.
sSell 'em for all over?"
eyes"
"What's the price for one who's all alone
by hisself?" :.
'sThat depends on where you want to CO."
81 want to go to Tennessee.
"What part of TENNESSEE"
ssAist Tennessee. You see, down thar's
whar dads folks come from afore the wah,
and I lowed as the crops was in and the
COIN was shucked that I'd run down and
see my kim" and the man refreshed himself
with bite of plug tobacco.
Gin what part of Tennessee do your
friends liver" asked the agent.
'Ain'5 just done tole you hit was aist
Tennessee? My folks names iced. Tim
Teed as was jailed last yeah fo' shootin
Sam Poteet-he was a own brother o. mine.
We uns is hard crowd when we thinks
any one is a-tryin to impose on u.s." said
the man as he gave the belt that sup
ported his trousers vicious hitch.
ssOh, yes, that's all right" said the affa-
BILE agent as he looked about to see that
the avenues of escape were unencumbered
"But if you want ticket''--
''But amt done tole you that do want
a ticket? Mebbe you uns think I've come
down hyar to chin with you TO- the good Of
my health and to make myself agreeable.
But though mighty good hearted whar
folks treats me bout squar amt out TO-
fun, leastwise not to speak OF. :"
''But where do your friends live?"
Gin aist Tennessee. Can't you heah9"
IT can, but near what toWn?'
'They live in the country. None O. my
kin heZ any use To- a town.
sBut you must get off at some statlon?"
'That's what 1 reckon to do"
''Then give me the name OF the station"
"What foi?'
"That you may know where to get off
and 1 may know what to charge you, I" said
the agent, trying hard to restrain his anger.
Hits nigh Powell's valley"
"1at there is no station Of that name"
81 tell you there oughter be-"
''But there isn't Now, l can give you
ticket to Cumberland Gap or to Knoxville"
stWaa1 LET me have one'
"For. which placer"
81 don't give red. But if you don't
send me through straight I'll come back
and talk loud to you. Do you uns hear
me-"
The agent gave him a ticket to Knox
vile, the farthest point off, and while he
prays that the West Virginian may be run
over he lives in daily dread that he will
return to Charleston and carry out his
threat Of talking loud
ALFRED r. CALHOUN.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26
Uruguay's Silver Coin.

The government of Uruguay has ac-
cepted the offer of DR.. Juan Agustin
Barriga for the coinage Of 8, 100000 silver
dollars, as authorized by the recent law,
and the contract has been signed. This
contract is for the immediate coinage of
only $40 900, with option to coin
g., 600, 900 more when deemed convenient.
The price arranged is at seventy cents
gold for each silver dollar, thus leaving
the state profit of 100000 on each
81, 0oO, 900 coined. The coinage is to take
place in the national mint at Santiago
under supervision Of the Uruguayan
minister in Chill, and the dies made for
the coinage of Uruguayan silver in Paris
in 1877 are to be used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26
nrowning,s t,tellectual Generosity.

Brownipg's knowledge of all that had
been done by the poets, both ancient and
modern, was like that Of Tennyson. very
extensive. He loved his art not only in
his own hands, but in the hands Of others.
There was not q grain Of envy or grudge
or jealousy Of other living poets in. his
conversation Even when he did not care
for the subjects or the kind of poetry, he
appreciated and praised the work. Tt was
characteristic of his searching curiosity and
his love of discovery that he was not con-
tent with reading the best work of the by
gone poets, but sought out the little hooks
where some unknown Eost had planted
one flower, tine sole poem of his life, and
brought it to excellence. Long before
Snart's "Song to DAVID had taken it's
place in SO many collections l remember
his quoting a long passage out Of it at
dinners. A. Brooke in Century.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26
TIE Cures AT CANTON.
A Minnesota Village Where Miracles Of
Healing Are Performed.

A Minnesota Village Where Miracles Of
Healing Are Performed.
Fillmore county is in the southeastern
part of Minnesota. Canton village is in
the southwestern part of Fillmore coun-
ty. In Canton village is small Cath
Ole chapel called st. Michael's; that
chapel has small spire; that spire has
small window, and in that window there
is, or recently was, a phenomenon which
many people considered miracle.
It was picture of awoman holding an
infant child. Neither the woman nor
the child looked at al like the standard
pictures of the Madonna and infant
Jesus, as the child represented very
chubby and broad jawed baby of the
healthy western type, while the woman
bore the likeness Of a stout Swedish or
Norwegian nursegirl. Nevertheless there
they were. There was no way of account
ing for their being there, and inagina-
ton did the rest. 1t was considered
miracle, there was a rush Of visitors,
miraculous cures" were reported, and
now Canton is celebrated
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26
Seeing the Editor.

NJ mild n,.nnarad yo,,tb b,,t his
FOO soss,ed i sie,ns Of . recent ebapch and
i i;s a1athas 49, ehe front wsrs stainad
n rlith haerv Il rinnings from his straw col.
o mrvll , sl, Pc
IAN are Won Mr. Gruson the editor of
The Ethical Records" asked the Young
MON as With s,nfflino stems and doyncast
ar ,ss h s nearad the awf,,i nresence Of tha
man With the shears.
1T have the honor 70 he the editor of The
Ethical Record ), said the grear man as he
s,,rveved his visitor over the tons of his
CLASSES
ssnfr fzruson-ab think vo,, know nv
fa+har Has the veterinary surgeon ont
a "a pad Ton Pm his SON and T regret
~ ssu +bat lam in a little trouble T am
49, w. ,,,.rrv newt weak a woman who
a. 49, eoirss+ and sJvaatast of herb
% . 81 ~, ), hrolre in the editor won surely
d. ~ lool, an yo,r annroach;ne marriage
~ tLa l;obt If tro1 hjet,,
- en-. NJ M Ernson Il, is NOT that that tro1-
h,os 10 uara is the case and 7 blush.
sir SIR az T rive it to YOU. Last night I had a
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26
Curious Scene at the Worlds Fair.

The other day the Turks consecrated
the grounds ON which the Turkish pa
vilion of the Worlds fair will be erected.
First they killed large white sheep as
sort of insurance to prevent Allah
from destroying the building. A hun
dred mon in bullying brooches, rimless
red fez and red slippers stood around the
sheep. One prayed, another tied a
bandage over the eyes of the sheep, and
Fahri Bey cut the animals throat. After
this everybody went to the Turkish vii
lage, and the sheep was there cooked and
eaten,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26

TIE SWEDISH BUILDING.

1t VIII Be One of the Great Attractions
at the Fair.
Sweden will make an exhibit at the
Chicago Worlds fair that for extent,
variety and interesting novelties will be
far greater than one would expect from
the size of that country. The build
ing itself will be a great novelty,
The site is opposite the Fisheries build
ing, and owing to the necessities for
space it is a triangular plot of 1890
square feet. To correspond Herewith
the building will be triangular in form,
covering $4,000 square feet.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26
He MAY Ra Sneaker.

,Hon. William Sulzer will this winter
serve his fourth term in the New York
assembly as representative Of the present
Fourteenth district of New York city,
and is candidate for the speakership.
For a man of his age he has a very en-
viable record. He was born March IS,
1868, in the Seventeenth ward of New
York, obtained his education in the city
common schools, studied law and was
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26
Started Poor.

NJ. Marinonf, who commenced life as a
factory lad, is now chief owner of the Paris
Petit journal, circulating nearly 1000, 900
copies daily, and proprietor OF several yalu-
able patents, including the famous rotary
printing machine that bears his name. He
is now nearly seventy years of age and is
several times French millionaire. LON
don Tit-Bits.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26
After the Coyotes.

In Oregon the people Of Crook county
are discussing the ACCESSIBILITY Of offer
ing a bounty for coyote scalps. They
are so plentiful that cattle raisers find
them Killing young calves on the range,
and farmers in some localities claim that
it is impossible TO raise poultry on their
FARMS on account of the ravages of coy
otes. The sheep men are terribly an
moved by These pests and suffer severe
loss from them each season.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26
HIS MEMORY is 4ioNoRED.

The People of Staten Island Cannot For
get Distinguished Fellow Citizen.
The long residence of George William
Curtis on Staten Island gave the people
there sort of local proprietary interest in
his fame, and since his death they realize
by their loss what a public spirited citi-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26

admitted to the
bar as soon as he
reached the age
Of twenty-one.
From his school
boy days he has
been an ardent
and active Demo-
GRAFT and h as
made q special
study of all ques-
tons directly at
fecting the labor
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26

In these days of disappointment it is graft
ication to know that one can buya bottle of
Salvation Oil for % cents.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26

ord ON labor questions has given him an
extraordinary strength with all the labor
organizations, and he is one of the very
few politicians emphatically Endorsed by
all the working1nen's organs. He was
first elected in 1889 and has since been
reelected yearly. His votes and speeches
on the free lecture bill, tunnel bill and
anti Pinkerton bill, as well as other la
Dor measures. attracted much attention
and ELECTED warm aS9roval.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26

The PRESS is delivered mornings in Portland
and Woodfords at 90 cents month.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-26

The DAILY PRESS Will be sent to any ad
dress for so cents mouth
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
CABLE CAR COLLISION.

Four Lives Lost at Kansas City BY n Cable
Car Running Into Freight Train.
KANSAS CITY, No, Oct 1S.-At Ger
o'clock yesterday morning an eastbound
Santa Fe freight train running on the
Kansas City Belt line tracks ran into a
west bound Fifteenth street car at the
Belt line crossing on East Fifteenth
street The gripman and two passen-
gers We're instantly killed and one pas
senger was fatally hurt, dying a few
hours afterward
There was a fearful crash when the
collision occurred, the echo of
which was heard for blocks and
binding cloud of dust Immediate
ly hid everything, from sight. For
several seconds, until the dust settled,
the extent of the appalling accident
was not known to the few spectators
The freight train must have struck the
cable car near the center, as the heavy
trucks were thrown on either side OF
the track On the east side of the track,
twenty feet from where the collision o.
Cured, was found the bodyHof Mrs. Re
Wis, partly underneath truck Seachrist
and McKenna were picked up on the
other side, while Gripman Barbee was
found zoo feet down the track with his
head resting against the rail in pool
of blood and brains All were dead
with the exception OF Seachrist, who
was carried to his home and given med
zeal attention, but he was beyond aid
and breathed his last at $3.50 o'clock
The accident occurred at exactly the
same place where Warren Watson vas
killed few months ago.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
STUDENTS SHOT.
The Son of Judge o. Il. Bassett, of Law
renee, Fills Two Students With Shot

The Son of Judge o. a. Bassetf, of Law
renee, Fills Two Students with Shot.
LAWRENCE, Kan, Oct Nv E. Hig-
gins, of this city, and John Craycraft,
of Hiawatha, students at the univer-
sity. were shot last evening by Fred
Bassett, son Of Judge o. E. Bassett, Of
this city.
Higgins and Craycraft We're on their
way home from the athletic field where
they had been in a foot ball game.
They had crossed one corner of Bas-
sets lot and had just reached the
sidewalk when Basset stepped from
the door of the house and raising a
shotgun fired it point blank at a dis
lance of only twenty yards. Higgins
fell with his stomach, side and arm
filed with shot. Craycraft received a
part of the load in his right arm and
side, but was not badly injured.
Bassett prepared to fire a second shot,
but Higgins fell in the middle of the
street. Bassett then coolly put his gun
away and began reading the evening
paper. He says he warned the students
not to go across the ground several days
ago, and concluded to shoot the first
man that did so. He was arrested soon
after the shooting and is now in jail
There is great excitement among the
students. Higgins was principal of one
of the Topeka schools the past two
years and entered the law school of the
university this fall. His injuries are
not considered fatal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20

"Please don't refer 20 him" struck In
Kathleen. ''If You do, I shall simply
leave the room"
''Oh, very well, my dear. Let us talk
of other things. If you're sensible
you'll go with me to the Dilworthy's
this evening. It's true, they're entire
ly new people, but they've pushed them
selves in, and at this stage of their social
audacity it would be absurd not to ac-
cept them"
s.Ive graver subjects than that to
concern me, mamma. One of them is
the way we've sunk in debt 1t may be
only a few hundred, as you said SO
magnifcently yesterday. But those few
hundreds must be paid, and mean to
paw them. Do you know how? BY
selling every bit Of the superb jewelry
1 possess, and some of my handsome
gowns as well. Then I want to go
abroad and live in some little cheap
German place; Stuttgardt, or some
where like that. There Will be money
enough to keep US both quietly, with
none of the fume and strain of our obi
Gus past. I may not have happiness,
but shall have peace. / shall take of
my ticket and shan't be for sale any
longer. All, what a luxury! No jaded
old omnibus-horse could feel more
grateful when they unharness hi4 for q
good long rest!'
She spoke firmly enough, and yet
with an occasional hysteric throb in her
voice that the ear of her listener plain
" perceived. Mrs. Kennaird was a
listener, that day, Of wondrous polite
shrewdness. Kathleen must have her
head for little while, she had con-
cluded. There was no other way of
hereafter coercing her. It is possible
that poor Kathleen, whose mind was
much larger, just as her nature was
much deeper, than that Of her mother,
never clearly grasped the latter's aston
ishing power to put her worldhness into
practical use. Every day since Marga-
retta Kannaird had first looked upon her
child to see that she was unwontedly
fair, had been steady persistence of
resolve that this beauty should find its
full matrimonial price. The shock of
Alonzo's losses had been followed by a
sense of relief at the ruptured engage
ment. He had never been good enough
for the girl, after all. The gods had
withdrawn their good gifts only to re-
store them in more plenteous measure
50 Stuttgardt,'' she thought. Eyes,
we'll go there for awhile, perhaps
There, or to Dresden, or some such
place. Anything to humor while she's
like this. A little moping may do her
good. If she's crossed, now, and gets
into tantrums and cries too much, it
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
No Heresy Case Against Dr.. Newton.

BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. 10.-Bishop
Potter, OF New York. stated that there
is no truth in the rumor that Rev. Dr..
Heber Newton, rector of All Souls
church, of New York was to be tried
for heresy. From this it would appear
that the report of the committee ap-
pointed to look into the teachings of DR..
Newton was favora BILE to the minister.
The charges were originally laid against
DR.. Newton By Dean Eugene A. Hoff-
man. Bishop Potter was obliged to
take up the matter, and a committee
consisting of Rev. Thomas NJ Peter,
Rev. DR.. Morgan Porter, Rev. j. Ship
man and E. P Wheeler and ]. A. Beal
as attorneys, was appointed TO make an
investigation, which has been done and
the report submitted to Bishop Potter.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
cLEvELAND.s PENSION VIEWS.
Liberal Consideration for Worthy Vet

ssLiberal Consideration for Worthy Vet.
erans."
Nothing could be more appropriate,
patriotic and vigorous than what Mr..
Cleveland says on the subject of sol
diers' pensions He advocates 'sliberal
consideration for our worthy veteran
soldiers, and for the families of those
who have died" But he contends, as
every good citizen and every selt-re-
specting veteran should contend, that
''our pension roll should be roll of
honor, uncontaminated by ill-desert
and unvitiated by demagogic use.''
That part of his letter should be atten-
lively read and well digested by every
American citizen who wishes to be, as
Mr.. Cleveland is, just to the deserving
soldier, and just to the country at the
same time. 1t must be said that in his
struggle to preserve the character of
the pen ;ion roll as roll of honor by
the suppression of fraudulent practices
and the extravagant schemes of the
pension attorneys, Mr.. Cleveland has
not been supported by his own party
as he ought to have been. In follow
ing the cry Of the demagogue, as many