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The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Two members of the geological survey
of Canada, A.P. Low and d.. Eaton,
have started upon an exploration of the
Labrador peninsula, where is the great
Lake Mistassini and the@2000 feet falls
of the Hamilton River, such as travellers
have reported them. The truth about
these features and about the Hamilton
and the East Main rivers is to be found
out beyond. cavil. No white man mas s
ever gone through the wilderness which
Mr.. Low and Mr.. Eaton now essay.
A new telephone in this country was
given a. test Monday evening between
Saratoga and Albany, distance OF 40
miles, over telegraph wire. 1t is the
invention of William Marshall of New
York, uses no magnet coil or diaphragm
and is said to dependssfor it's acoustic in
depreciation of electric pulsations upon
the alternate cohering and separation OF
sheets of ordinary tinfoii sand paper
arranged as conductor. "ln the test
above mentioned messages were transmit
ted clearly land easily. The cost OF the
apparatus is less than that Of the ordi-
nary teledhone.
1t begins to seem probable that the
yellow fever scare in Pensacola was with
out ground. The State board of health
declares that in one of the two cases
called yellow fever, the disease was not
yellow fever. AS to the other there is
some doubt, but no new cases have de-
veloped and no suspicious illness is report
ed in that part of the city.
DR.. Irving S. Haynes announces through
the New York Medical journal that he
has used preparation of ozone with
success in the treatment of diphtheria.
1t has been used in seven cases in
which the patients had been given up,
and six of those so treated recovered.
The preparation is called therapol,
and by it's use the diphtheritic mem brane
is dissolved in from eight to forty eight
hours.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18

It is very amusing to see how sad a
Mugwump paper becomes when anybody
injects partisanship into the silver
debate. Senator Hoar's speech, remarks
the Springfield Republican, is "marr ed
by an attempt to throw the burden OF
present financial difficulty on change
of administration. Our dear Mugwump
friends cannot bear to have their rosy
predictions contrasted with the reality.
But they ought not to cry when dose of
their own medicine is administered to
them.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18

AS both the great parties in Iowa have
declared against prohibition it seems
practically certain that the prohibitory
law in that State will soon be thing of
the past. The State has had prohibition
since 1884, but a strong sentiment against
it has developed in the last three or four
years, and last year it was only saved by
a majority of one in.the legislature. In
the small places the law has held it's
own, but in the large and growing ones
it has been rapidly losing, owing partly
to a large influx of foreigners The Re-
publicans have stood by it as long as
there was any hope that the people would
sustain it. The last two elections showed
pretty clearly that to stand by it any
longer was to invite defeat. 1t remains
to be seen whether to desert it is not to
inYite defsat jgst as surely,
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18

Mr.. Paramount Authority" Blount,
our minister to Honolulu, has arrived
home, bringing with him a long report
which contains his views of the situation
in the Sandwich Islands. Until this is
printed what Mr.. Blount thinks will be
concealed from the public, for he de-
clines to talk On the subject except in
very general way. From some words
which he has let drop it is quite evident
that Mr.. Blount's opinion of Claus
Spreckles is not an exalted one, and that
he apprehends danger from the Japanese.
MI. Blount appears to be less of royalist
than he was some months ago, and when
his report is printed we shouldn't be
surprised if Mr.. Nordhoff, of the New
York Herald, would feel obliged to rebuke
him for alleged treachery to the cause
of Spreckles and the Kanaka dynasty.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18

One of the greatest mistakes of the
bimetalists, or some of them, is their as
sumption that. the way to the establish
ment of their theory lies through the
opening of our minis to the free coinage
of silver. 1t is quite as certain as any
thing can be that that road leads to
monometalism, silver monometalism.
Free coinage of silver under existing
conditions would drive out gold, and
we should soon be on a purely silver
basis The only possible way to estab-
lish bimetalism is by International agree
ment. But the opening Of our minis to
the free coinage of the white metal will
surely postpone any such agreement.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
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The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18

Our Democratic brethren who told us
last fall after the election that they had
been commissionedssto save the country
from the effects of Republican misrule
seem to be having what would be de-
nominated in slang language very
"rocky" time in the salvation business.
AT the very outset they are met by fun
damental disagreement as to the proper
plan of salvation, and the dispute over
it is getting SO hot that one branch of
the salvation army is accusing the
other branch of not being salvationists
at all, but mere tools of agold bugs"
and capitalists whom it is the duty of
all good Democrats to despise and spit
upon Indeed the army is fast arrang-
ing itself in two hostile battalions, and
the idea of saving the country is fast
giving way to the idea of fighting one
another At the head of one of these
battalions is the President and the COM
manding officer at the head of the other
at present seems to be- Senator Vest of
Missouri. The President is said to allege
that Vest and others of his way of think
Ing IN GQ0 Oeuduc uTlChtu Aiul, oAoo
they virtually promised that they would
vote at the extra session for the uncon-
ditional repeal Of the Sherman law, but
as soon as the Senate met opened
their batteries on the President and
his message Senator Vest, on the
other hand, alleges that the President
tricked him and all other Democrats
by protesting to stand on the Chicago
platform, which Vest alleges was in
favor Of bimetalism, and then after
election at the first opportunity repudiat-
ing it by sending monometalic message
to Congress. OF course in this quarrel
among the saviours of the country it is
not the business of Republicans to take
part. While they must deprecate it
as tending to postpone the salvation of
the country, they cannot interfere in
it. Here in the East, however, where
the doctrine has been preached assidu-
ously by the most learned Democratic
expounders that a platoon is mere
generality the effect of Senator Vests
complaint will be to stamp him as a
backnumber statesman.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
No. Yarmouth Academy, Yarmouth. Me.

The Fall Term Goth Year, Of this institution
will open September 18th, 1898, with enlarged
Special attention to preparation for Bowdoin
and other leading colleges including Wellesley.
Vassar and Mt Holycke. Best facilities for
of courses and any desired information address
the Principal. REV. B. r. SNOW. A. NJ.
"a aug11-eod&w1m
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18

No sooner had Cleveland reached the
White House than the Democrats began
to poster him about the Offices, where
upon he grew angry and is said to have
declared that he would not look at a
single paper or listen to single appli-
cation until this silver business was set
tied. If he sticks to that resolution a
good many Republican holdovers are
likely to have their terms extended in
definitely.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18

The Behring Sea decision appears to
give satisfaction ION both sides of the
water. OF the three countries affected
by it it is less to the satisfaction of
Canada han any of them. Canadian
poachers and pelagic sealers will have a
poor chance to carry on their business
under the regulations made by the arbi-
traitors.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18

The Hon. Nathan Matthews, Mayor of
Boston, appears to be DESTROYS OF going
out of politics. To accomplish that end
it was not necessary, however, for him to
decline the Democratic nomination for
governor of Massachusetts,. He could
90 out of politics over that road very
speedily.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18

Last fall.Mr George H. Cloves, manu-
facturer of Waterbury, Conn, who had
voted for Cleveland in 1883, concluded
to vote for Harrison, and in letter to
the chairman of the Republican COM
nitteeTof Waterbury made the following
prediction of what would follow Demo-
cratic victory:
Waterbury's capitalists, and especially
Waterbury's workingmen are indebted
to protection for all they now enjoy;
that with any reduction of the now
existing duty on brass and copper goods
manufactured by our mills every brass
mill in Waterbury would have to close
down, or the pay of the employees would
have to be greatly reduced. In the event
of Mr.. Cleveland's election there will be
at least SO, 000,0o of capital in this
town that will commence to take in sail
and to scud under bare poles, preparatory
to getting ready for financial squalls,
hard times, financial depression and
panics
All the predictions of Mr.. Cloves have
been verified, and the workingmen who
voted the Democratic ticket because they
were told that a Democratic victory
would improve their condition are now
many of them out of work. They fol-
lowed blind guides with the inevitable
result
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
The Maine Non Forfeiture Law


There can be no reasonable doubt, but
that one of the chief contributing factors
in the Union Mutuars acquisition of
New Business is the fact that the Bene-
fits of the Maine Non-Forfeiture Law
are daily becoming better understood by
intending insurers-and with this clearer
understanding they naturally secure
Policies containing its benefits, it being
equally we'll understood that the Union
Mutual Life Insurance Company, of
Portland, Maine, is the only cOmpa-
my issuing Policies under this law.
During the twenty-six weeks constitut-
ing the first half of 1898, no fewer than
thirteen notices of Deaths were re-
ceived in which the respective Policy-hol-
dershad through some cause or causes al
lowed their Policies to lapse, and upon
which, without any action whatever on
their part, their insurance was continued
by the beneficent operation of the Maine
Non-Forfeiture Law. These Policies ag
gregated in amount more than $32, OO0
One of these cases will suffice to show
the far-reaching scope and liberal char
acter Of this law:
POLICY, NO. 90, 939.. AMOUNT 81, 900
CHARLES T. Fox, LEWISTON, NE.
15-Year Endowment Annual Premium $67 40
Policy issued March 15. 1890
Lapsed for non-payment OF Premium, March
Is, 1898.
Insured died, June IT, 1898.
Proofs OF death received June 27, 1898.
Draft in settlement payable on demandD for
warded to Beneficiary, June 80, 1898.
The amount of the draft was $979.64.
such being the face of the Policy, less
the foreborne Premium for one year at
Ordinary Life rate, viz: Twenty dollars
mot Endowment Premium of $67.40
such as he would have paid had the pol
lev been in full force at the time of death
by the payment of premiums) and thirty
six cents interest thereon. The simple
narration of the facts herein set forth,
without laudation is the most eloquent
tribute that such a law can have.
Jly 30 cod tt
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY, AUGUST IS.

The Navahoe has won defeats enough
to want to come home.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The latest from Aroostook is that
potatoes have remarkable growth of
tops, and if the rust keeps off one or two
weeks longer there will be some freights
for the Bangor & Aroostook railroad to
haul this winter that will make those
tremendous engines puff and labor
awfully. Rust is appearing but not IN IN
very large Quantities, ana AroosIooh
will no doubt do her full duty as usual.
General James Fowler of Unity, who
is still living, about "a years old, relates
the story that when small boy his
mother sent him up to neighbor's TO
borrow darning needle for few days
until she cold mend up the family cloth
ing when he carried it back. The boy
had to walk over sixteen miles to do the
errand.
Game Warden Samuel Atwood of Win
terport reports game very plenty all
through that region. In fact, one man
saw thirty-nine deer and one moose in
walking from North East Garry. to
Lobster Pond, distance of twenty
eleven dead deer shot by poachers. Mr..
Atwood collected some evidence against
the poachers to use later.
A very singular accident happened
Monday in New Sharon. While Elnathan
Swift's COW was feeding back OF his
house it stepped onto some boards that
covered over his well, the boards gave
way and the cow went backwards into
the we'll. Help soon arrived and by the
aid of ropes and chains she was drawn
UP, but was badly hurt; one hip was
broken and she was otherwise injured.
Work on the new government building
in Houlton has begun. The cut stone
for the trimmings, etc, will be furnished
by the Maine & New Hampshire Granite
Company of Portland. The brick for
the walls will be obtained sfrom Marys-
vile, NIB, and the face brick from
Philadelphia. The building is to be
45x60 feet on the ground; the basement,
the second story, IL 1-2 feet in height
Waldo 6. Brown is superintendent OF con-
struction, and Geo "A. Gorham, Jr., clerk.
Wilton Academy alumni held their an
nual meeting August 16. President j..
E. Hiscock presided and Frank johnson
was POSTMASTER The first toast, "Ih q
Occasion" was responded to by L. P.
Hiscock, ESQ.,; Rev F o. Hall spoke for
"The Ministry B. M. Small, ESQ.,, rep
resented the illegal Profession;" J.E.
Hiscock told some things about "The
Worlds Fair "The Boys and Girls and
Boys in Collegen was talked about by
Charles Merritt; Insurance Agents
were made conspicuous by CIV. Staples.
In the evening Rev. F o. Hall of Lowell
delivered very fine grafton at Academy
hall to large and appreciative audience.
The Washington bee., 1893-07-15
Taller Than EiffeI's Tower.

The foundations of Sir Edward Wat
kinss new Tower of London have been
completed. They occupy four acres in
q pleasure park of 12O acres between
Willesden and Harrow. They consist
of immense blocks of concrete. The
nature OF the ground where the tower
is to be constructed is so sloping and
uneven that while one set of footings
appears about five feet above the sur
race, another is seven feet below, a
third five feet below and the fourth
at least twenty feet below the surface.
Ihese foundations go down nearly
twenty feet and should be capable of
bearing any weight that could be placed
upon them. They have cost between
$4,000 and $4,000.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
whole undertaking may be gathered
from the statement that the Eiffel
Tower, which is to be so far sur
passed in size by the English tower,
was made of 1000 tons of steel and
iron, consisting of $4,000 specially de-
signed pieces, fastened together with
100000 rivets.
The English tower is to be $50 feet
higher than the French wonder, and
the latter can be seen at a distance Of
seventy-five miles. The English struc-
ture will also be on higher ground. On
top OF the English tower there will be
an observatory and rooms for scientific
experiments, which are likely to be Of
great value.
The plan provides for a large landing
stage that will accommodate 10000
people. This landing stage will CON-
tain a large dancing room and several
shops and have refreshment bars all
around. Underneath will be rooms for
stores and other purposes, while at the
top there will be number of small
rooms which might be used as private
dining rooms.-Chicago Tribune.
The Washington bee., 1893-07-15
Buried Her Alive.

Hazleton, July 3.-The wife Of
Charles Boyer, of Morrison's, died re-
Gently. Mr.. Boyer has since been dis
tracted, and in his rawlings he insisted
that she was foully dealt with. In
order to pacify the man his friends
opened the grave Saturday. A bullet
wound or a knife thrust was the worst
they expected to discover, but when
they opened the caSket q sight met
their gaze which almost froZe the blood
i'm their veins. The woman had been
buried alive, and all the evidences Of
such an awful mistake were plainly
apparent The circumstances surround
ing the case are sad in the extreme.
One year ago Mr.. Boyer married Miss
Bessie Leader. He owned q farm and
was In comfortable circumstances.
Several months after the union his
wife was stricken with strange mail
|ady. Several doctors were called, but
they could not satisfactorily diagnose
the case, and the patient finally died,
lit was thought. After the funeral the
husband became changed man. He
could not sleep and his efforts at re-
pose were attended By horrible dreams.
These disturbances became more pro-
bounced daily, and he finally became
IA raying maniac. He believed his wife
had been stolen from him and was
still alive In her grave, and through
his persistent entreaties the grave was
Opened. When the coffin was uncov-
cred the glass lid was discovered
broken. The shroud was torn to
|shreds, the body, although somewhat
|decomposed, was twisted and distorted
and lay face downward, while the hair
was scattered all over the coffin and
la big bunch was still clutched in her
hand. The most rational person in
the cemetery was the afflicted hus-
band, and he has since evinced evil
|dences of returning reason.
The Washington bee., 1893-07-15
Condition of Crops,

The New York World of Monday re-
Iports the condition of crops from 700
localities by telegraph. While wheat
seems to be below the average, corn
promises to be the largest ever raised.
|and oats, barley, rye and similar grains
will give largely increased yields. Fruit
/ will not be good. The partial failure
|of the wheat crop has been foreseen.
II is due chiefly to unfavorable weather
last winter. The heaviest damage is
lin Kansas, where in nearly thirty
counties the crop Is a total failure
The States yield will be, 1t is alleged,
but 40 per cent of an average. This
means q reduction of over 10000, 900
bushels in the crop in that State alone,
for Kansas is the greatest wheat coun-
try In the world. Illinois and Missouri
wheat also suffered heavily from the
same cause. Spring wheat has been
greatly damaged in North Dakota and
some other sections by drought. This
has been broken within day or two
and the outlook Is improving. An
other element in the reduction Of the
wheat crop is the decreased acreage,
due to farmers abandoning its culture
on account Of low prices and putting
In barley, oats and other grains IN.
stead.
The Washington bee., 1893-07-15
Two New Professions.

There are two new professions which
have lately been developed and are
now being written about. One is the
"glorifer" and the other is the "cutter
out" The glorifier is man employed
by rich but stupid persons to make
them out devils of fellows, don't you
know. He frequents the places where
men congregate, goes into society and
knows all the best people.
Then he tells stories about the witty
things his friend Smith says and re-
lates instances of his courage or
shrewdness or anything else. Smiths
friends get to look on Smith as a re-
markable man. Smith pays the glori-
fer good money for his part in the
transaction, and ever afterwards poses
as great man.
The cutter out can be of either sex.
There is rich family that has a son
or daughter, as the case may be, who
is infatuated with somebody, against
whom the parents have a prejudice.
Perhaps the object of the infatuation
is beneath the son or daughter in rank
or isn't just good or something else.
The parents 60 to the cutter out and
give uLu oT HeF tue proper INSTRUCTIONS.
The cutter out goes to work and fasci-
mates the Objectionable object of adora-
ton. The son or daughter is thrown
over, and the cutter out gets fat fee.
1t isn't everybody who would make
a good gloritier or a good cutter out,
but there are vast possibilities for per
sons who have requisite qualities of
mind and body and the necessary be-
Titled opinion of themselves that will
permit them to do the work.-Buffalo
Commercial.
The Washington bee., 1893-07-15
PRICE OF LOTS ONLY s100

TERMS OF PURCHASE: Five dol
lars cash and two dollars na,
month, with no interest. HaI
cash, 10 per cent discount; sll casb
20 per cent discount.
Money will be advanced to us,
ties desiring to build.
LII a husband purchaser dies
before his purchase is completed
a deed in fee will be given to hia
widow, if the property has been
improved, or if not. the amount
already paid will be returned her
The above presents an opportu.
nifty never before offered the Col
ored people of the city of Wash.
lngton to secure a valuable lot
either as an investment Or for a
home on monthly payments, and
at the same time, entitled them
to a vote and a voice in the Gov.
ernment of the country.
Those who apply first, will have
the first choice of lots.
Already many have made their
homes in the "City of BOwie,'
and lots purchased on the above
terms should double in value with.
in the next six months.
For further information apply to
W. CALVIN CHASE, Agent,
1109 / St., n. "
Or CAMPBELL CARRINGTON
Owner, sos d St., NV,
Washington, D. O.
The Washington bee., 1893-07-15
ON ROOFS AMID FLOODS.
Many People Starving to Death on Tops
of Buildings.

mSuy feoplo SCarVinS Co Death ON TOPS
of Buildings.
New Orleans, July 3.-Almost with.
out warning the relentless waters,
pouring through the Rescue crevasse,
now 800 feet wide, swept down the
New River basin last Tuesday night
carrying destruction in their path.
People were imprisoned in their houses
and cabins and driven into garrets and
to roofs of buildings. There many of
them are yet huddled, enduring the
pangs Of hunger, for they have no
means Of cooking food. So far as re-
ported ten lives have been lost, and
there is no telling how many more may
perish unless succor comes soon. An
idea Of the extent and depth of the
flood may be formed from the fact
that there is from five to seven feet of
water at Dutchtown. Capt. Henry
Doyal's house is the only one along the
entire extent of New River settlement,
a distance of some twenty-five miles,
with its floor still above the surface of
the flood. 1t is hoped the steady de-
cline of the river will affect the back
water, at least sufficiently to prevent
any further rise. Two fleets Of skiffs
have been sent to the rescue.