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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-05-24
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BLANTxETS.
Comforters and Quilts

100 pairs of Silver Gray and White
Blankets, SOC pair.
100 pairs Scotch Gray Blankets, usual
ly sold at $1.25 for 75c pair.
One case Honeycomb Quilts, SOC each.
100 Xxx White Crochet Quilts, actually
worth $1.O0 for $50.
There are few lots of Blankets and
Comforters. We shall not quote the
prices here, but will be marked so low,
that they will go quickly.
so Bleached Damask Table Covers 1-2
yards long, worth $3.50, reduction price
CSC.
One lot Turkey Red Fringed Table
Covers yards long SOC each. PIP
yards long 75c.
Nainsook Remnants. running from to
10 yards, they are the short lengths from
good qualities, worth zoe to 33c yard,
one price on the lot IL 1-2c yard.
One lot Genuine Imported Turkey Red
Damask, regular jobbing price 75c, at
this Special Reduction Sale $50.
Over 200 pieces Half Wool Cream
Ground Challies, in large variety Of
styles. These goods are actually good
value at Csc, the lot being SO large, we
shall divide the price in two, 70 lie yard.
In this salesroom will be found almost
a jobbing stock of Children's Blouse and
Shirt Waists, on which will be made
specially low prices to reduce the stock
one half.
In this purchase of merchandise there
was large lot of towels which we shall
be unable to get on sale until Tuesday.
See Daily Papers of ''ad.'' Cottagers and
Hotel managers should be on hand that
day.
25 pieces French Stripe Wool Shifting
Flannels, usually sold at 81 1-2c, TIC a
yard, quantity limited.
100 pieces Indigo Blue Dress Print SC a
yard.
Ladies should remember the sale of
Ladies' and Children's Garments, Ladies'
Suits. Wrappers and Shirt Waists.
In the Cloak Koom---Second Floor.
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DO not delay your visit to the
Cloak Department.,
Second Floor.

Third lot in Ladies' Black Refers in
sizes from 80 to AZ. This is a bargain
for you to examine whether you care to
purchase or not, $2.75 each. Fourth lot
is Ladies' Refer Jackets in Light Tans,
Tobacco Brown, Navy Blue and Black.
In this lot few Light Tans with Butter
fly Capes. A few, Dark Navy with Bish-
OPP Sleeves for S4.98. If you are interest
ed in the above lot of Jackets, you will
find them great bargains. They will be
considered good value at $3.50. Fifth lot
contains some Ladies' Fine Refer Jack
cts in Black, Tan and Brown, sizes 80, "a
and Sc only. Remember ifyour size is
here, it is actually worth $14OO to $500.
At this sale S9.75. Sixth lot is Ladies'
Long Travelling Garments with the Mill
tary Cape, in Light Mixtures, very de-
sirable, $1,000 each. A large assortment
of Ladies' Capes in all popular lengths
and styles, Light and Dark Colors,
Cloth, Silk and Velvet.
There are few Ladies' extra fine
Light Tan Jackets, thoroughly tailor
made and a high grade sample garments
at ridiculous prices. One lot Ladies'
Best Quality Printl Wrappers, SO cents.
25 dozen Ladies' new Print Wrappers
in Light and Medium Colors. Also In
digo Blue in various new styles, at slips
each.
Ladies' Satin Wrappers, in delicate
shades with Silk Front, $2.75.
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grounds. Ine gates are almost show In
themselves, suppose you arrive at the
f1fty-seveneh street entrance. There, all
ID row at least ten 'ds IN length, are no
FEWER taan eighteen turnstlles, each
GUARDED ~ an olaclal. Tnere are twelve
tlckeo WINDOWS, ana at certain hours the
men IN an OF tne1n are Kept very busy. A
stranger "Suie say, IL ne Gid not stop TO
thanA mucn anoae IT, That there were gate
ana t1cket Iacllsies enough here for the
wnoie exposition. lie may even go SO far
DIS 20 "onaer why 1hey put all OF their
gaess ans' tlcKeG sellers Id one spot. Much
.amazement VIII be his when he learns
Ihere are just nlneieen other entrances,
ana ena1 some OF then are much more more ex-
tenslve IMAM this one. Ii you go to the ex-
posltlon Dy any OF the excursion trains
which run into the terminal station on
the grounds you Wifi have choice of
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UMB r ELIAS

One large lot of Gloria Silks, fast black
with natural wood handles and Paragon
frames; regular $1.50 goods; sizes "a, rs
and %, at SO cents each.
A small lot of extra fine quality silk
and worsted FRENCH Glorias, Paragon
frames, natural wood handles. with sill
yer trimmings, some with covers and
tassels; regular retail price $1.50 and
$1.70; at CSC each.
Four different qualities in this large
lot of imported natural wood handles,
gold and sterling silver trimmed; have
been sold for $500, 1926, $3.50 and $500,
the large lot makes the price your choice
at $1.19 each.
At $1.39 we shall sell small lot of
Umbrellas we have been retailing at So. 90
and $3.50; fancy handle and extra fine
coverings, $1.39 each.
The $3.50 quality has been retailed for
more than double this price. Natural
wood handles, trimmed with nickel, in
silk and wool serges, sizes 26 and %.
Remember the price $1.59 each.
There are many small lots of Umbrel-
as, regular retail price has been $500,
$500, $500, $500 and $1,000, in all silk,
natural wood handles, ball topped and
gold trimmed.
The most of the above goods have COW
ers and tassels. The latest styles.
We did not buy from this stock any
White Shirts, as we did not want them
at any price. We are manufacturers.
We are headquarters for gentlemens
White Shirts.
We are the fountain head for all the
Perfect Fitting White Shirts in this city.
They never have had competitor, and
we have no reason for making any differ
ence in price, but at this great Merchan-
disc Sale, we wish to make the business
balance in each department. We are 60
ing to make you present of the laun-
dry of any shirt purchased of us during
this sale. Now husbands, tell your
wives-wives, tell your husbands-that
Manson G. Larrabee is going to sell his
large line of Custom Made Laundered
White Shirts at this sale, at the same
price as unlaundered-as follows:
The only place where the celebrated
Senator and Bonanza White Shirts can
be bought is at Manson G. Larrabee's,
246 Middle street. We guarantee fit,
in cases of long and
short sleeves, fat men, slim
men, tall men and short men. In case
we do not have your size in stock, we
will make them at short notice. No ex-
ira charge. When you buy the Senator
of us for $1.0O you buy a custom made
shirt, perfect in fit, workmanship and
material. The next in price is the
Bonanza White Shirt. This shirt is as
perfect in workmanship and material as
any shirt made for 81, cut by the same
pattern as the Senator.
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Cloak Department.
SECOND FLOOR.

We shall include in this Discount Sale
large lot of Ladies' and Children's
Cleaks, Ladies' Suits, Wrappers and
Shirt Waists from large manufacturer
samples at manufacturers cost-less our
discount for this sale.
We shall divide them up into lots
where there will be a choice in qualities.
First lot is $3.50, $2.75 and $500. Chill
dren's Refers, Navy Blue and Light Tan,
ages to 70 years. Discount price Sits.
Second lot is $49s, 1915, $6.75 and
$3.50.
Misses Refers, Butterfly Capes,
Bishop Sleeves, Fancy Fronts, etc.,
for $3.50 each.
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not perfectly appreciate their proportions
till you have 6Gen them many times. They
are like mountains In ono respect. They
possess the optical delusiveness which &C
companies great hight or size. For in
stance, from the upper end Of the grounds
the golden dome OF the Administration
building and the mighty expanse of the
Manufactures or main buiiding appear
but a little distance away. The stranger
has no doubt of his ability to walk to them
in two or three minutes. Yet they are
nearly mile and a quarter distant in
direct line. Every view and every build
ing on the grounds deceives yea In the
same way.
If you stand at the peristy1e and look up
the central basin at the Administration
building yoar estimate of the distance will
be, probably, two Or three hundred yards.
When you walk 1t you will find 1t the
longest 800 yards you ever saw. The exact
distance is / $50 feet, or more than a third
of a mile, Similarly, the Administration
building will not Seem to you large
structure. 1t is SO compact, SO SYM
metrioal, so perfect, and surrounded BY
such magnificent palaces that your eye is
deceived. Consult your guide-book and
you will find that 1t is 262 feet square.
which means that 1t covers more than an
acre and q half Of ground. Each of the
four pavilions which form it's corners is
eighty-four feet square, in itself as large
as a good-sized brick block of five stories.
The beautiful dome rises $50 feet. How
vast must be the surrounding palaces
when they are able to dwarf an immense
structure like thisl
Turning your eye now toward che Lake
the golden statue of the Republic is the
most striking object in view. 1t is beausi-
full, but does not seem very large. APP
proach it, and it appears to gro~ q foot
taller with every step you take. When
half way down the basin you see what you
hitherto failed to notice, q workman is
perched upon the head of the giant god
dess, regilding bit Of her wreath. Thsre
is plenty Of room for him within the cir
clet. and when he permits hM Leg tn dam
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LADIES' JERSEY UNDERWEAR.

One case Ladies' Low Neck Sleeveless
Jersey Vests, SC each.
One case Ladies' Jersey Vests, Low
Neck and Sleeveless, runs full in size.
Jobber's price 100. Sales price &c.
Ladies' Jersey Ribbed Vests, Egyptian
yarn, shaped body, high neck, fancy
trimmed, long and short sleeves, good
value at 42c. We mark them down as
special price to
csc Each.
SOC quality Ladies' Jersey Vests,
Egyptian yarn, shaped to fit in knitting,
extra Farm large size, short and long
sleeves, no better sold at 500. At this sale
39c Each.
The Vest we shall sell at SOC is a Swiss
Ribbed Vest, Egyptian yarn, high neck,
silk finished, long and short sleeves,
shaped to fit in knitting,
soc Each,
Ladies' Fancy Jersey Vests in pink,
blue and white, open work yoke front,
low neck and sleeveless, shaped body,
fancy trimmed. CSC Each. Regu-
lar price 75c.
Children's Gauze Vests in sizes from
IS to 81, long and short sleeves, all sizes,
csc Each,
Extra quality Children's Jersey Vests,
long sleeves, all sizes,
csc Each.
There are many small lots of Ladies'
and Children's Underwear we shall put
on sale this morning which we have not
space to mention.
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SECOND FLOOR.
LADIES' MACK|NTOSHES

A fine Wool Macintosh, in Navy Blue,
Black and mixtures, actual value $1,000,
at this sale $685.
One lot Ladies' Mackintoshes, in Navy
Blue, Black and mixtures, splendid val
ue at $500; sales price $500.
One lot Ladies' Mackintoshes, in black
and fancy mixtures; sales price $500, ac-
tual value $3.50.
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FIRST FLOOR.

5000 yards Lining Cambrics, in rem
nants, at &c per yard.
10 pieces good quality English Sllesia,
&c per yard.
American silesia, &c per yard.
Covered Dress Stays, watch spring
steel, at sc per dozen.
One lot Dress Shields, sc per pair.
Quantities of Dress Trimmings at one
quarter their value, which we have not
space to mention.
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NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN, that the
IN subscriber has been duly anpointed and
taken upon himself the trust Of Administra-
tor with the VIII annexed of the estate of
MATTHEW MAsTERsoN, late Of Portland,
in the County of Cumberland. deceased, and
hiyen bonds as the law directs. All persons
Ceased, are repaired to exhibit the same;
and all persons indebted to said estate are
called upon to make payment to
Portland, May I'd 1ses. may1 L d sS w
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FIRST FLOOR.
Wool Dress Goods

One lot single fold English Poplins,
half wool, 1-2c yard.
36 inch Cotton Henrietta, all new spring
shades, 15c yard.
80 finch All Wool Diagonal Suitings,
regular 75c quality, dark and medium
colors, SOC yard. Remember the width.
Serge mixtures, all wool, in gray, blue
and brown, jobber's price 55c, at this
sale 300 yard.
Black and White Check, Double Fold
Dress Suitings, 15c yard, limited quality.
45 inch Black and White Checks and
Plaids, 81 lie quality for Csc, limited
quantity.
Black MOhair BriIliantines, 30 in. Wide.
81 lie quality for 65 cents
$1.1 10 quality for SO cents
CSC quality for Is cents
One lot Silk Finish Brilliantines 40 in.
wide at 4Sc, worth 75c.
Black Silk Warp Henriettas, every
yard warranted.
$1.O0 quality for Is cents
$1.25 quality for 81 IL cents
$3.50 quality for $1.13
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Next Comes the Always

Satisfactory Short Bosom White Shirt,
the Forest City. This is in great de-
mand among the millions. Price 65
cents.
The best known White Shirt in this
city is the famous Portland Pride 30
cents.
The City Shirt 800.
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7OO0 Yards of sd Oil Tabling at
IL cents per yard.

7OO0 Yards of Sd Oil Tabling at
/ cents per yard.
One lot Dark Ground ChalIie Delaines,
8 cents yard.
One lot Ginghams.
4 cents yard.
One half ton Colored Batting, full
weight,
6 cents roll.
Batting usually sold at 10 cents,
Discount price 8 cents.
Extra fine quality clean white Sea
Foam Batting, II cent quality,
I2 I-2 cents.
One large lot of Printed Chintz for
Comforters, regular 10 cent quality,
5 cents yard.
A large lot of Flag Print, Columbia
Print and Drapery Print, fast colors, us
ually sold at 10 cents,
8 cents yard.
25 pieces Cotton Twill Crash, at 2 IL
cents yard.
10 pieces is inch All Linen Bleached
Crash, Selvedge Edge,
6 Ia cents.
One lot Bleached Damask. 81 inch,
% cents yard,
go inch Bleached Damask,
4S cents.
81 quality so inch leached Damask,
So cents.
$1.25 quality 6S inch Bleached Damask,
rs cents.
$1.33 quality, 6s inches wide, Bleached
Damask,
SO cents.
$1.50 quality 70 inches wide Bleached
Damask,
SLID.
A fine line of Napkins, to match same
of the better qualities.
Cream White Damask, % cents.
Also one lot Cream Damask, with col
ored borders, for 25 cents.
One lot Scotch Loom Damask, 20 CENTS
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CITY OF PORTLAND.
Notice to Sewer Contractors.

Notice to Sewer CONTRACTORS.
GEALED proposals for constructing about
- $50 feet of pipe sewer in West and Chad
wick streets will be received at the Office of the
City Engineer until Friday, the 26th inst at
O'Clock p. M, when they will be publicly open
ed and read.
The successful bidder will be requi ed to give
bond in sum and with suretleS satisfactory
to the Committee on Drains and Sewers, to in
sure the proper fulillment OF the cond itions of
the contract.
Blanks on which proposals must be made and
plans, specifications and further Information
can be obtained at the Office of the City Engin-
eer.
The committee reserves the right to rejecS
any or all bids should they deem 1t for the in&
terest of the City so to do.
Bids should be marked Proposals for Sew
er'' and addressed to
JOSEPH Z. MCGOWAN,
Chairman Com. on Drains and Sewers
Portland, May 18th. 1895. mayISdt6
The Progress., 1893-02-11
Waste of Corn Fodder.

1t is always in order to call attention
10 the waste of corn fodder that takes
place on so many of our farms every
year, either by allowing it to rot in the
fields or making some slight attempt to
utilize it by pasturing. The Northwest
ern Farmer thinks this latter method is
of questionable benefit, because the
stock will do a good deal of damage to
the soil if allowed to run upon it when
wet, and they get at the best but a
small portion of the full value of the
fodder. The amount Of labor involved
in cutting and handling corn fodder has
Of course been the meaps of deterring
many farmers from saving 1t. But 1t
will so largely take the place of hay in
feeding the farm stock that it will repay
well the cost of harvesting. Within re-
cent years farmers have been realizing
the value of this fodder more than they
formerly did, and now that we are get
ting harvesting machines that promise
to lessen the labor, we shall hope sooI
to see the major portion of this great
crop put by for winter feeding. As the
case now stands, this waste of corn fod
der is undoubtedly the largest single
leak in our whole agricultural system
The Progress., 1893-02-11
The Alcoholic Vice Ia Alaska.

A historian of the Mogul dynasty of
northern India relates that MOhammed
Baber Khan undertook to eradicate the
opium habit of his subjects by the total
destruction of poppy plants throughout
his dominions, in the hope of thus saving
at least the rising generation, since he
had given up the attempt of reforming
confirmed poison eaters. The alcohol
vice, too, is apt to itself from
the smallest remaining germs, and rad
ical measures alone can achieve deliver
ance from its evils. Some twenty years
ago the American and British govern
ments made a simultaneous effort TO re-
strict the liquor traffic among the
aborigines of Alaska and the adjoining
territories, but the root of the stimulant
curse was suffered to remain, and is now
producing a crop of new sprouts in a
rather unexpected manner.
''Our Indians have begun to make
their own beer, or kwass, as they call
it." says the Rev. o. r. Mckinney, of
| Unga, Alaska, in a letter to a CORE
spondent of the New York Voice, land
though it costs but little, lis neverthe-
less deadly intoxicant. While sober
they are good, kind people, ready to
be taught and ever eager for knowl-
edge; but it seems they will drink al
most anything that will stimulate. Only
IA few days ago news came to our vii
1 lage that Russian priest up the bay
! had killed himself drinking bitters.
Every Russian holiday is celebrated by
the natives making an unusually large
amount of kwass, and as necessary
result getting drunk, fighting and
smashing things in general" in other
words, the liquor traffic has started t 4
flames that devour the poor aborigines,
and they should not bear the exclusive
blame if they should be unable to arrest
the progress of the confagration.
The Progress., 1893-02-11
Prune Pudding.

Soak one pound of prunes over night.
In the morning remove the stones, put
the prunes in porcelain lined kettle
with sufficient water to prevent burning,
cover the kettle and cook slowly on the
back part of the stove until the prunes
are perfectly tender; this will take about
an hour; then add a cup of sugar and
stand aside to cool; when cold press
through a colander, or if you have a
keystone" beater a few revolutions
will reduce them to a smooth pulp.
Beat the whites of three eggs to stiff
froth; add them to the prunes. Have a
quarter of box of gelatin soaked fol
half an hour in half cup of cold water
stand this over the fire until the gelatin
is dissolved; stir into the prunes with
the whites of the eggs; turn into mold
and stand away to harden. When ready
to serve turn it onto pretty dish and
pour around it q custard made from 6
pint of milk, two tablespoonfuls of sugar
and the yolks of three eggs. This Gus
tard may be very delicately favored
with bitter almond, but be careful t.
add only few drops or you will destroy
| the flavor of the prIInes.
The Progress., 1893-02-11
Crossing Tom atoes.

Mr.. Z. S. Carman, editor of The Rural
New Yorker, considers the crossing of
tomatoes one of the most interesting
pieces of work he his ever been engaged
in. He writes: Il began by using the
Peach tomato as the mother plant three
years ago. The two fruits crossed did not
mature. They were green and deformed
when frost occurred. did not suppose
the seed would germinate. On the con-
trary it germinated more freely than
that of other varieties planted the same
day, and the plants were marvels of
thrift. These plants bore all sorts of
tomatoes, from the Fig, Pear and King
Humbert, Trophy. Victor and Conqueror
to the shapelier kinds of later years; but
there was not Peach tomato to be
found among them, nor one with the
characteristic downy skin of the Peach.
These crosses with the Peach were agaiu
crossed, using pollen of the popular
varieties Of last year, such as Ponderosa,
Stone, Ignotum, Long Keeper, etc.
End now that the Peach blood assert:
itself. Some of the shapeliest specimens
horne by the 200 crossbred plants have
downy skins
The Progress., 1893-02-11
RuiIding a Compost Heap.

Market gardeners know the value Of
compost heaps, but farmers have not as
much experience in this line as they
should have, according to Farm Life,
which says: by composing it all stable
and barnyard manure can be put in
more available shape and be applied to
better advantage directly to the crop
than it can be in ordinary form. A good
way to build compost heap is to lay a
foundation of thick sods, making the
basis of such length and width as seen
desirable. Put down sods, say, to a
depth of six inches; then cover them
with a layer of manure half as deep
Continue with alternate layers until th'
pile is five or six feet deep. Then finish
with a basin in the center and pouI
water into this until the entire mass is
well soaked. Fermentation will soon
take place and assist in the decay of or
ganic matter After few weeks cut
the pile down from one end with spade
and throw it over, and repeat the opera
tion at least once before using. A few
months will suffice to give fine mass oi
rich compost. The best time to build :
compost heap is of course early in the
autumn.
The Progress., 1893-02-11
A DIRT wHEELBARROw.

they meet the dump cart. The machine
is simply a barrel on wheels, so nicely
balanced that it will tip easily. The
hooks in front make place for broom,
hoe and shovel to hang. For many
purposes a wheel barrel like this
is better for farm work than the
usual wheelbarrow. One can take a
heavier load with less work on two
wheels. One novel use to which we
saw one Of these wheel barrels put was
III planting potatoes. The barrel of seed
vas wheeled through the field and five
or six rows were dropped ut one trip,
making short journeys to the barrel"
a cheap and practical device for reel
ing fence wire, described by CORE
spondent of the Journal mentioned, is
also Illustrated: Two wheels Of a light
The Progress., 1893-02-11
Health of Drinkers and Abstainers

The registrar general of Great Britain
IS authority for the statement that the
highest rate of mortality among any
class of men engaged in any regular
branch of industry is found among pe--
sons engaged in the liquor trade. A
table containing the comparative death
rates of males engaged in 100 occupa-
tions in England and Wales gives very
convincing arguments. Men engaged as
inn or hotel servants have the highest
rate of mortality; clergymen, ministers
and priests the lowest. OF persons en-
gagged in the retail liquor trade the
death rate is four times that of the cle--
gy between the ages of twenty-five and
FORTY