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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-05-05
BASE BALL.
AT BALTIMORE.


Baltimore. 80 Q 3 0 2 o o. 7
Boston ...3 2 o 2 o. 2 Oil
Base hits Baltimore. 9; Boston, IL. sErrors
baltimore, q; Boston, A; Batteries Schmidt
and Clarke, Stevitts and Cancel
AT WASHINGTON.
Washington. OIL o o o. 8
New York........0 O o 1 O o. s
:, Base hits-W Washington, 10; NewsYork, II.
rrors-Washington, 5; New York, 8. Bat
terles---Meekin and Farrell Crane and DOYLE.
AT CLEVELAND.
Cleveland ........O o 10 o O o. 3
chicago ...........1 1 o o o 0 x-.5
Base hits-OIeveland, 10 Chicago, 10. Err
rors Cleveland, 4. Chicago, 1; Batteries
Young and thinner, McGill and Kittridge.
AT LOUISVILLE.
louisville ...... Q Q 2 Q o 0 0 o o. Q
Pittsburg. ........O 1 o o o 8 o O. 6
Base hits-Louisville, 3; Pittsburg. g. FIR
rors-Louisville, o., Pittsburg, s. Batteries
Hemming and Harrington, KILN and Miller I.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-05-05
Light for the State Prison.

THoAfAsToN, May 4.-The prison in
spectors and Counsellor Pettengill are on
visit to the Maine state prison, making
arrangements to light the prison by
electricity.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-05-05
EACH BOTTLE GUARANTEED.

MR.. GEO. C. FRYE,
Portland, Me.
Dear Sir:
Your Amandine is the fin
est Toilet Preparation in the
market. Several resemble
it, but I much prefer yours,
and would send to the An
tipodes to get it. L am hap
py to endorse such a merito-
ri0us article.
No one after using one
bottle would do without it.
!. Yours truly,
GEO. M. BARTLETT.
{ 1876 Mill Street,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Feb. 9Th, 1898.
feb1s eodtf
The morning call., 1893-05-21

II or 10 cents bottle, and discover that
the restaurateurs are charging customers
81 90 There cannot be a great sale at
that figure, and the profits are very dis
proportlonate. The interests are di-
Vergent. WiDe-producers are anxious
TO have their vintages known. Wine
retailers to people at dinner are quite in
dliferent about quality or reputation, or
the places from which the claret, hook and
champagne come. All they want is q
quick and lucrative return. They may
even demur to selling bottle at 25 cents
II they got their wine for nothing. The
1alr directors insist upon exacting 25 per
cent on the wine sales; the restaurateur
demands at least 80 per cent. and The poor
producer has all his trouble and outlay for
70 per cent. Some means should be taken
to let the public know the exact facts.
They cannot be gratitied with knowing
tnat they are paying so per cent more than
they should do. The cafe in the Califor-
MIA building is the only place where the
vlntages of California may be obtained in
1ull purity on moderate terms, and an
effort should here be made to give people
glimpse of the truth. 1t would have been
good policy to provide excellent samples
OF wine at % cents bottle, which would
leave ample pr oft to the grower and dealer,
but under the strange muddle Of franchises
and privileges at the fair this appears to be
impossible
The morning call., 1893-05-21
SHE MEANS WELL.

Mrs Isabella Beecher Hooker is fair
example Of the character of mind the ad-
vocates of Chinese exclusion have to deal
lutte sincerity, living and speaking for
what size considers the truth, she never
theless attacks Chinese exclusion on
grounds that provoke smile. She protests
again st the decision sustaining the wicked
anti-Chinese Geary act" in the name of
Thomas Hooker, one of the trainers of
the constitution. The United States con-
stituton. she says, is based on justice to
all people. And then this excellent
woman wants to know what kind OF JUS
tice is it to persecute the Chinese as
long as they are law-abding. The
white American laborer who has family
to support and educats might ask on
the other hand what kind of justice is that
which places the Chinese worker who has
no one dependent upon his labor ana
whose purpose is to accumulate a little
money and return to his native land on
level with the home laborer who is under
an obligation to society to rear his family
up to the requirements of the country
in which he lives. The Chinese laborer
has no other obligation than ro feed
and clothe himself; the white laborer
must feed and clothe himself and family
and send his children to school. There
cannot well be ranker injustice than to
force the white man to undergo this un-
even competition. Mrs. Hooker means
well. but she does not know what she is
talking about
The morning call., 1893-05-21
FAST STEAMlNG.

Until the Campania broke the record
the other day, the fastest voyage across
the Atlantic stood to the credit of the
Paris. The fastest single days steaming
still stands to the credit of that vessel, but
only nominally. The Paris made $50 knots
in one day on the westward voyage, but
as time has to be added, according to the
position at noon, the westward day Is
q hours 80 minutes. On the eastward
passage, time is subtracted from the nau-
tical day, which in the case of the Cam
pania. when she ran 517 knots. would be
only few minutes more than 90
hours. Consequently this speed COM
ing westward is equivalent TO $50
or $50 knots. The successive runs of
the Campania were 4S1. 400, 474, 517 and 493
knots. Had this been on the westward trip
every log would have exceeded 500 knots.
No other steamer has done this. During
one day the average was twenty-five knots
per hour, and probably twenty-three knots
were made during soE.e hours. This aver
age was exceeded on the short run of ten
hours between Queenstown and Liver
pool. Yet it is said the Campania was
worked at easy engine speed. The expec-
tatlon is that when the engines mag be
thoroughly relied upon for smoothness
the voyage will be reduced TO between five
and five and half days. the speed being
quite equal to that maintained on the rail
rDad journey between San Francisco and
New York. A steamer going at this rate
actually changes its horizon three times an
hour 1t may raise the topsails of a sail
ing ship ahead, and within half an hour
drop them astern. This is certainly won
derful progress in naval architecture.
The morning call., 1893-05-21
WHERE THE GOLD HAS GONE.

A European dispatch says that Austria
finds the task of putting the finances on a
gold basis somewhat too heavy burden to
be borne. Austria has been for some time
in the market bidding for gold at ruinous
rates. The premium that has been paid
is insignificant in comparison to the in
crease in the public debt in consequence Of
converting coin bonds in to gold bonds. One
can understand why England, creditor
nation. should desire to establish the GOLD
basis; one may also understand how
American bankers. having invested largely
in Government bonds payable on their face
in coin, should conceive the idea that if
such bonds were made payable in gold
there would be more profit In the trans
action; hut one cannot easily under
stand how the Parliament of a country
owing from two to three thousand millions
in coin should consent that bonds should
be made payable in gold. The fact ap-
pears pretty well esta bished that England
and Germany have been forcing other
European nations to adopt policy by
which England and Germany may profit.
but from which other nations must lose.
Austria. Italy and other debtor natio ms
have been driven by their necessities to
consent to q financial policy which they
of their creditors. There is not apparently
financial strength enough in Europe to re-
sist this combination of mnney-lenders.
These debtor European nations look, how
ever, to the United States for relief.
The morning call., 1893-05-21
DIRECTING A JURY.

Another illustration of the beauties of
the jury system was supplied in case in
a police court in this city on Friday. A
man was on trial for violating the law
against carrying concealed weapons.
technical objection arose out of a
recent change in the city ordinance on that
subject, and after the facts were proved
the Judge held the prisoner innocent and
directed the jury to acquit him. The
jury. looking at the case from the stand
point of common.sense and not technical
tiles. refused to obey the direction, and
found him guilty. Thereupon the Judge
refused to receive the verdict, and dis
charged the jury. The man was then re-
arrested, and held for second trial.
There is something ludicrous in pris-
oner being acquitted by the Judge and
convicted by the jury. Ii the jury had not
the right to convict him ON their oaths as
iurvmen, what were they there for? And
II the Judge had the right to Olsen arge
him In the face of the verdict of the jury
why was the man rearrested? Having
The morning call., 1893-05-21

PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Gardiner Hubbard of telephone fame
will be the nearest neighbor of President
and Mrs. Cleveland in their new "Woodly"
country house.
Nat M. Bingham. recently appointed
United States Marshal of Utah. will be
remembered by Harvard men of about
fifteen years back as one of the most noted
tenors who ever sang in the Glee Club.
So valuable are her jewels that Mrs
Potter Palmer never attends ball or
party of any kind to which she wears them
without private detective to form q part
of her escort.
The Duke of York. in opening the Ais
court Forestry Exhibition Saturday, said
ne was deeply touched by the congratula-
tions on his coming marriage with the
Princess Victoria Mary of Terk.
The Gould family has arranged plans
for a memorial Presbyterian church for
the late Jay Gould. This chnrch, which
will have seating capacity for 300 persons.
will be built this season at Roxbury, Della
ware County. Mr.. Gould's birthplace.
1t is said to be definitely settled that the
valedictory at the Yale commencement
this year will go to Reynolds Begg of
HenGersonvlle, N. c., and that Winthrop
Edward Dwight, son Of President Dwight,
will be the salutaterian.
Kaiser Wilhelm is now said to pass a
good deal of time wandering about Berlin
in disguise. He is reported to have gone
through the Hebrew quarter of the city re-
Gently in the guise Of Hebrew peddler
and to have discussed ihe condition of the
Hebrews with great number of the work
ing class of the race.
The morning call., 1893-05-21

temples and palaces, and to lead a life
compared to which that of the feliahs
was freedom and affluence. To escape
from such misery was duty. The valley
Of the Jordan offered suitable refuge for
many thousands more than escaped from
Egypt, and the forecast of Moses was JUS
tilted by the growth of the Jewish people
from comparatively small number at the
time of the exodus to over 100000 when
the Book of Numbers was written. But it
is doubtful whether the Israelite nation
ever reached 100000. Parts of the coun-
try were fairly fertile and well supplied
with water. Between the coast and the
coast range there is a rich belt where the
orange. the palm, the citron, and the wheat
plant grow in the highlands. where 20inches
of rain fall; the olive, the vine and the fig
succeed well. The valley of the Jordan is
largely cut up by arrOyos and covered
with jungle of willow and cane. But the
great bulk of the country inhabited by the
Jews must have been as unproductive in
past history as it is now, and as incapable
OF sustaining large population. The
country surrounding the ancient Jordan is
even less capable of supporting body of
inhabitants. 1t is a desert aud will prob
ably ever remain so.
When the Emperor of Russia began to
expel the Jews some one suggested that
they should be sent to Palestine. But it
was discovered that If they were sent
there they would have to be fed there
And the natural effect of their surround
lngs and their condition would have
forced them to assimlate to the Bedouins.
It never answers to plant mankind In
region where it cannot become self
SuppOrting
The morning call., 1893-05-21
ALL ABOARD FOR JERUSALEM.

Mr.. Charles A. Dana has gone to Jerusa-
lem by rail from Jaffa. The distance as
the crow flies is only thirty miles, but the
intervening range of mountains involves
curves which extend the length of the rail-
road to fifty. Mr.. Dana finds orien talIsts
in wild state of excitement over the dis
covery that the construction Of the railroad
was foretold in scripture the prophecy like
wise declared that when the railroad was
built the Jews from all parts of the world
would return TO Jerusalem, there to await
the coming of the Messiah. The former
prediction is to be found in the sixth of
Second Samuel. In the fourteenth verse of
that chapter it Is stated that the children
of Israel shall return ''upon horses and in
chariots. in litters and upon mules, and
upon Sacift beasts" The Hebrew word
"kirkaroth." which is here translated
swift beasts" really bears DO such sig
MITIGATION. Its literal meaning is "swaying
furnaces" But at the time our English
version of the Bible was made the common
mind could not conceive a swaying furnace
which could serve as vehicle; the word
was therefore vaguely translated as swift
beasts. Now, a railroad train may answer
to the description of swaying furnace,
and it is inferred that the inspired writer,
foreseeing the invention of the railroad.
declared that the Jews would use it to re-
turn to their sacred city.
This is proposition which none but the
erudite are competent to discuss. The
mere ignoramus may. however. observe
that as yet there are no indications of
emigration Of Jews to Jerusalem. No
strain has yet been put on the rollng-stock
of the Joppa or Jaffa road; indeed it
would not pay running expenses but fof
English and American travellers to the
Holy Land. The old curious feature still
strikes the Cooks tourist. All manner of
people go to Jerusalem, but it is not an
especially attractive place for Jews. At
intervals OF century or two Jewish mill
ionaires have cherished dreams of hasten
ing the gathering of the chosen people in
the land of their fathers, but they have
never been able to persuade any consider
able number of their coreligionists to al
tempt the journey. The Jew knows a good
deal more than the Crusader of the elev-
entt and twelfth centuries. You do not
catch him migrating from land of sheke.s
TO make his home in land Of poetry and
sand.
The exodus of the Jews from Egypt was
well-advised step. In Egypt they were
subject to the cruelest form of bondage,
forced to build pyramids and obelisks AMI
The morning call., 1893-05-21
PRETTY SHARP PRACTICE.

Onr of the modest New York lawyers
whose knowledge of law was presumed
by the Chinese Six Companies to be more
profound than that of Congress and the
late President Harrison combined has ex-
pressed the opinion that the Supreme
Court does not understand the question
before it at all. The modest expounder of
the constitution adds that the registration
act never contemp plated the forcible de-
pOrtation of Chinese. L he latter statement
is correct. The registration act cid not
contemplate the. deportation of Chinese.
1t assumed that the Chinese would obey
the law and thus save themselves from the
penalty of deportation. 1t was not sup
posed by Congress that any con siderable
number of Chinese would refuse to
register and thereby incur the pen
atty of deportation. II deport-
tation act had been passed it would
doubtless have been declared an act
of power not consistent with our
organic law. But the real requirement
was registration. Deportation was the
penalty for neglect or refusal to comply
with the law. 1t is possible that lawyers
of the Choate stamp who encourage ignor-
ant people to defy an act of Congress on the
ground that it may be declared unconstitu-
tiUnal may be held to some kind of some
accounting. Is it consistent with the oath
of a lawyer to induce a layman to disre-
gard the law? A lawyer may accept a
case against the Government and argue it
to the best of his ability, but he treads on
dangerous ground when he advises his
client to disregard an act of Congress.
After inducing the Chinese 10 disregard
the registration act on the ground that the
Supreme Court would not sustain it Mr..
Choate cut sorry figure before the court
He indulged in some lamentable talk
about the hardships of deportation. while
it was the hardship Of registration that
was before the court. The question the
court had to consider was If the require
ment of registration was unreasonable and
in conflict with the constitution. That
the CHA ese Companies may consider them
selves as swindled by Mr.. Choate is quite
possible. They relied upon his assurances
that he could procure decision that would
release them from the obligations Congress
had placed upon them. Possibly he thought
he could. That he had very little ground
for such thought appears from his failure
to make constitutional argument before
this court
The morning call., 1893-05-21
THE CHINESE SIX COMPANIES.

There is no doubt but what the Chinese
Six Com panies have played for heavy
stake in respect TO registration. If the act
had been complied with stop would have
been put upon Chinese immigration. The
Chinese population of the State would
have decreased gradually and the business
or the Six Companies would have de-
creased with decreasing population. The
Six Companies would have been cut off
from principal source of revenue.
Chinese laboTer in China is worth
nothing; a Chinese laborer in the
United States is worth at the least
$500. If all the Chinese in the State had
registered there would have been no chance
to smuggle Chinaman in. The lack OF
certificate would be fatal to his usefulness.
He would have been packed out of the
country and the Six Companies would
have been out his expenses. 1t is also
reported that there is demand
for Chinese laborers in the coffee
plantations in Central and South America.
If the registration law could be beaten
fine prospect would open to the Six Com
panies in the way of supplying labor in
all directions. The American people need
only to realize the Importance of the regis
tratlon law to see that it is preserved and
enforced. BY infinite labor we have kept
the Chinese population down to point at
which it is minor evil. The State would
have plenty of white labor if it had not
been driven away by Chinese. and to that
extent the few thousand that are here are
injurious. The people cannot now afford
to let go. The more determined the Six
Companies are to kill the exclusion laws,
the more determined the people must be to
SnStain than
The morning call., 1893-05-21
CITY HALL COMMISSION.
flany Useless Chandeliers Placed in
the Buildiup

At meeting of the City Hall Commits
sioners yesterday a. communication was
read from the Board of Trustees of the
Free Public Library. asking that the color
of the railing in the new library rooms in
the northeast wing be changed from bronze
to japan white. the difference in the cost
to be paid by the library trustees. The
Commissioners agreed to make the pro-
posed change, as it would cost only $500
more.
Architect Shea stated that he had ex-
amined into the question of lighting the
northeast wing, and said that it would
require 291 chandeliers, which would cost
about S15 each.
He also said that in many parts of the
building there were many chandeliers
which were not used and were practically
useless where they are now. These. he
thought. culd be taken out and utilized
by the Commissioners for portions Of the
northeast wing. The useless chandeliers
had been placed in their positions bv ex
trayagant Commissioners. with no other
object than to initiate plumbing and Gas
bills. The new gas fixtures will cost about
S30OO
The board passed progress estimates for
S13l5 In favor of Allen. HaweS 81 Wright
Tor putting In electric wires.
The morning call., 1893-05-21
CNILDREN'S DRESS SHOES.

CHILDREN'S BUTTON SHOES, Fine Kid, Fox
Cloth, Kid Tops, Square Toe. Patent Leather
Tips. Spring Heels: Sizes-5 to 71a, per pair
81 Is; to 1919, per pair, 81 so; IL to 2, per
pair, 81 rs.
LADIES KID OXFORD TIES, Patent Leather
Tips at 75c and 81.
LADIES' FREN CHI KID OXFORD TIES az 81 25
and 81 so.
Toe 75c and 81.
1000 pairs OF our own make In LADIES' FRENCH
KID Button Foxed Cloth Kid Tops Square
orPointed Toes, Patent Leather Tips, 50 so.
1000 pair of our own make GENUINE FRENCH
KID Seamless Fox. Square or Pointed Toe
Patent Leather Tips, regular price, So, during
this sale 81.
500 pair of own make, best quality Of
LADIES' PEBBLE GOAT OR CALF, Fox
Button, 80.
CHnDREN'S GENUINE FRENCH KID BUT
TON SHOES. sizes to 1O1s, reduced from
50 80 to 81 90
MISSES GENUINE FRENCH KID BUTTON
SHOES, sizes II to 2, reduced from So TO So
LADIES' EXTRA FINE KID SLIPPERS. 81 %.
LADIES BLACK CLOTH OVER CATERS, SOC.
1870 pair of LADIES TAN and RUssET OK
FoRDS for summer wear at 81 % per pair
1900 pair of LADIES' FINE CANVAS BUTTON.
all widths and sizes. regular price 81, during
this sale 81 50.
LADIES' GENUINE FRENCH KID. hand-turn
soles. button boots, Laird, Schober d
Mitchel's and our own make at So, regular
price is S6.
LADIES' GENUINE FRENCH KID, hand-sewed
welts, button boots. Lard, Schober IL
Mitchell's aud our own make at 81, regular
price 81.
The morning call., 1893-05-21
WINE AT THE FAIR.

1t is unfortunate for California that so
much difficulty should be found in placing
its wine before the consumer in Chicago.
The restaurant proprietors have paid large
sums for their privileges, and assert their
right to sell what they like. Vitculturists
are not so much interested in getting a
high price as in having their wines appre-
eiated and brought into general consump-
zion. Ii only the taste for good, pure vim
tages is whetted, they can afford to wait
for the better terms which greater de-
mand viii bring. But they cannot feel
satisfied that matters are going well for
them when they dispose of their wine at
The morning call., 1893-05-21

was sign that Ruskin's name had not
been made and that his theories were too
advanced for the time.
Ruskin's true poetry is scattered through
his prose works. Bat his verse is also
now accessible. he carried off the Newdi-
gate prize for English poetry at Oxford in
1889. A volume of youthful effusions was
published by his father IL 1850. Some of
his verse was penned at the age of Il. In
1891 new edition in two volumes was
issued, with the addition of several fresh
poems and illustrations by the author.
The morning call., 1893-05-21
A LIFE OF RUSKlN.

Since the announcement that the laureate
ship has been offered by Mr.. Gladstone to
Mr.. Ruskin the literary merits of the art
critic have been discussed in almost every
paper in the United States. and, for rea-
sons not always accordant, the general
verdict is favorable. Nowhere is Ruskin
so we'll understood as In the United States
In every other English-speak commune
ity his works are phenomenally dear, with
the result that few can afford to buy them.
Here they were without copyright protee-
tion, and might have been sold at half the
apparently low amount charged Ruskin's
chief source of income in later years has
been his books. His ample fortune has
been given to the public in various shapes,
and all the residue will also go to public
uses. No fault can therefore be found
with his methods. He has been bene-
factor to the world every year of his busy
and noble life.
A biography of Ruskin from a compe-
tent hand has been published this spring.
The author is W. G. Colliugwood, the art
critics friend and secretary, who has long
lived with him at Brentwood in the Eng
lish lake district. The two volumes cast a
full light on the life history of the distin-
guished author from childhood down to
these days OF retirement. Copjoined with
sundry chapters CT autobiography issued
in fragm ents, the reader has intimate ac-
Quaintance with the career of this singu-
larly gifted man. and is enlisted in the
study by the fascination which surrounds
strong character and genius of a high or
der. The volumes mark division in Rus
kin's life work. Up to 40 years of age he
wrote on art, After tba period he suhordin-
ated art to ethical teaching and phlosophiz-
ing. The second volume begins with a no.
tice OF the essays, Unto This Last" which
first saw the light in the Cornhill under
Thackeray In 1860. Thackeray wrote him
that they were so condemned and disliked
that he could only accept one more. This