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The Portland daily press., 1893-02-27
THE PRESS.
MONDAY. FEBRUARY %.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
FOR MAYOR,
JAMES P. BAXTER.
Ward One.

Ward One.
For AIderman--Nelson Tenney. 49,,
For Couneilmen John G. Monroe, Vernal B.
Hq FOr M kagsna 81 SIssSy Cooling
For Ward Clerk Osinan G. Monroe.
For Observation-Disclosures *. Heath, Dana ID.
Miles.
For Alderman--Charle W. Hadlock
For Councilmen-R Catler LIBBY, Danlel
Davis. Sanford a. Maddox; -
For Cierk-Alfred H. Wlitmore:
Fer School Comnittee Daniel 81. Dole.
For Constables-George L. Warren, George
Ward Three.
For Aforementioned E. Rounds.
For Councilmen-~ Walter L. Lefavor, James
C. Kent, Lyman N. Cousens.
For Warden-W. C. G.. Carney.
For CIerk--William F. Morse.
For Constables-Oliper A. Skillings, Joseph
w. Riley
For AIderman-Wm. A. Allen.
For Couneilmen-Geo. A. Dow. Patrick G.
Melody, Silas E. Sylvester.
For School Committee-Stanley L. warren.
For Warden-S. Major Hammett.
For Clerk-Wm. C. Leonard.
For Constables-Geo. Hall. VIM. S. Morse.
Ward Five.
For Alderman-Wm. N. Prince.
For Councilmen-Wflford G.. Chapman, Frank
C..Jehnston, R. Stuart Laughlin.
For Clerk-J0hn Howard Hill.
For Conssables-Eben N. Perry, Henry S.
Thrasher
Ward Six.
For Alderman-Charles A. Strout.
For Councilmen-Charles j. Pencil, Charles
III. Randall, Joseph F. Chute.
For School Committeeman. M. Bradley.
For Warden-Edwin A. Gray.
For Clerk-W. Edwin Ulmer
For Constables-G Granville Frank, Samuel ID.
Lincoln.
Ward Seven.
For Alderman-Theodo A. Josselyn.
For Councilmen-Adam P. Leighton, Lindley
M. Webb, Edwin L. Smith
For School Committee-George H. Allen.
For Warden-Lyman W. Hanson.
For Clerk-Herbert o. Phillips.
For Constables-Benj. W. Storer, BENZ. Burn
ham
The Portland daily press., 1893-02-27
THE WARD LINE BILL.

Alderman Gallagher and his assistants
have undertaken to gerrymander this
city for the purpose of fastening per-
manently upon the city council the grip
which the Democratic party obtained a
year ago through the assistance of
Republican votes. This is the sole pur-
pose of their scheme. The inequalities
in the number Of voters in the existing
wards are but slightly, If any, larger
than in the wards proposed. The bill
before the legislature about which DEM
ocrats and assistant Democrats have set
up such howl provides merely that Mr..
Gallagher's dose shall not be administer
ed to city unless majority of the citizens
want it. 1t may easily happen that con-
tingencies may arise by reason of which
the vote thrown on election day may
not accurately reflect the views of the
majority of the people. The difficulties
attaching to the use of new form of
ballot for the first time in municipa
election may give rise to errors and
omissions that may misrepresent the
will of the majority. A violent storm
may keep many voters at home. A
change so far reaching in it's consequences
and one that is to continue for at least
decade, ought not to be made without it
is certain that a majority of the people
are in favor of it. The bill now before
the legislature merely provides that it
shall not be.
But it is said by the opponents of the
measure that the bill prevents any change
of ward lines in the future, no matter
how gross the inequalities may become.
That is not true. 1t will undoubtedly
prevent any change for a purely politi-
cal purpose, it will prevent gerryman-
ders, and that is merit that should rec
ommend it. But it will not prevent any
change that is justifable on any other
ground that one purely political, because
large majority of the people can be
trusted to support such a change as that.
The bill is founded on correct princi-
pie; it is right; it is expedient; and the
House of Representatives should see
that it becomes law at the earliest pos
sible moment.
The Portland daily press., 1893-02-27
THE HOME.
FEMALE INVENTORS.

Female inventors do not confine them
selves to those departments in which they
may be supposed to have special expe-
rience. Patents have been granted to
women for plan for deadening the noise
On railways, for preventing sparks from
locomotive engines, for paper bag making
machinery, and for new form of life
raft. 1t is, however, more properly in
novel dress protectors, clothes pins,
churns, washbasins, dairy appliances and
dress things that the female inventor
mostly excels.
Nearly 400 applications for pensions
were made last year by members of the
The Portland daily press., 1893-02-27
see that their names and residences are
on correctly.

A bill is soon to be introduced into the
New Jersey legislature providing that
part of the state school fund be applied
to the support of parochial schools.
There is food for reflection in this fact
for the people who are opposing the
proposed constitutional amendment now
pending in the legislature to forbid the
appropriation of public money to secta-
rian schools. A request by the Catholic
church for a part of the school money
for the support of their parochial schools
is inst as legitimate and just as meritori-
Gus as many of the requests that are
coming from academies under control of
Protestant sects for similar appropria-
tions. There is but one proper way to
dispose of all of these demands, and that
is to refuse them, and to make it the set
tied policy of the state to refuse them.
Once let it become the established policy
of the state to refuse all such appropria-
lions, and all trouble in the future will
be avoided. There is no political parti-
sanship in this matter. 1t is in the inter-
est of all political parties and all sects
that the door should be closed now. Re-
publicans and Democrats alike are advo-
eating this policy. No paper has ex-
pressed itself more forcibly and clearly
in favor of the proposed amendment than
the Eastern Argus, which, in recent is
sue, said this:
If the naked question of forbidding by
constitutional amendment the appropria-
ton of funds from the state treasury for
sectarian purposes, directly or indirectly.
were presented to the people of Maine
there would be, at this day, almost no
opposition to it. Even with unfortunate
existing commitals and precedents the
majority in it's favor will be overwhelm-
ing; and legislators should have no hest
tation,in submitting the question to a
vote Of the people at the next state cleo
ton. It is right. 1t is sound statesman
ship. 1t will sever the last tie in union
of church and state which in times past
has been the cause of so much warning
| and bloodshed. If any member should
oppose submission we shall be curious to
see on what grounds he does it,
The Portland daily press., 1893-02-27

No person can vote unless his name is
on the registration list. No matter how
long he has been a citizen. if his name is
not on the list, he cannot throw his vote
next Monday. The names of most of
the voters are on the registration lists.
But there are many who have not yet
registered. These people, in order to
vote, must go before the registering
board in person and have their names
put on. Nobody else can perform this
duty for them. Personal presence is alb
solutely necessary. The board begins it's
sessions today, and all Republicans who
are not registered should make applica-
ton as early IS possible. Those who
have been registered in the past also
should carefully examine the lists and
The Portland daily press., 1893-02-27
MIR. BAxTER's LETTER OF ACCEPT
ANCE

The letter of the Hon.. James P. Baxter
accepting the Republican nomination for
Mayor is brief; but it covers the whole
ground. 1t it a pledge to administer the
affairs Of the city in the interest of the
whole people, and to devote his abilities,
which are known to be large, to that
end. There has been a weak
attempt on the part of the Argus to
arouse class prejudice in the hope that it
might injure the Republican can didate.
1t is rather disreputable business, and
would not have been resorted to had not
Mr.. Baxter's no nomination placed the
Democracy in d desperate straits. 1t is
hardly to be expected that Mr.. Baxter's
plain statement Of his position will en-
tirely put an end to this business, but it
will surely serve to convince all intelli-
gent men that it's continuance is inspired
by desile to raise false and unfounded
prejudice in order to steal victory that
cannot be won by fair means.
The Portland daily press., 1893-02-27

The police department puts in another
defence in the Argus. This time it is
that esome former police departments
have been guilty Of the same unjustifia-
BILE practices. That may .be true to a
certain extent, but it constitutes no de-
fence. But it is not true that any former
police department has been guilty of dis
charging arrested men in the wholesale
fashion that has characterized the pres
emit one. Nearly $4,000 were received from
police officers witness fees last
year and only little over
$1,000 this year. The work of
solidifying the hoodlums for the Democ-
racy goes bravely on, and judging from
hoodlum expression of opinion it has
been great success.
The Portland daily press., 1893-02-27
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The Argus has begun thus early to at
tack the Republican candidate through
the medium of anonymous communica-
tions. The anonymous communication
is always prominent feature in a Demo-
cratic campaign. We may expect this
week whole flood of them. 1t is always
a safe rule to dismiss personal attack
through an anonymous communication
as unworthy Of notice. 1t is method
chat obtains only among sneaks and
liars.
The Portland daily press., 1893-02-27
ALMOST A MIRACLE!

1.-THE truth of which is certified to by MARX CURRY,
of Windsor, one of the best known men
in Nova Scotia.)
PernicfOus Anemia. H@1nOr-
rhage of Bowels, with Conn
plefe Nervous PrOsErattOn.
and Heart Trouble, Cured
by SkOda's Remedies.
"For 10 or 20 years have suffered from
HmmoFrhage of the Bowels.
Some days would have Is H9morrhages,
and have passed IL pint of fresh blood in
4 Hamorrhages, and a portion of my
Bowels would protrude while at stool.
For the last two years have been worse.
Several physicians advised an operation.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-05-18

The multitudinous presence Of
seemingly invincible war vessels On
our Atlantic seaboard recently sug-
gests the other side Of the picture.
How could we sink them? OF course
the most effective adversary to send
against such steel-hound craft is the
torpedo, and unless thoroughly dirig-
ible it must have men to accompany
it, and so be a torpedo boat. The
Navy Department has called for de-
signs for submarine torpedo boat
that, if invented, should prove a
marvel Of destructiyeness. This
boat must be built so that it can
stand the great water pressure at a
depth of $50 feet and remain there a
considerable time. 1t must be able
to remain stationary, rise quickly,
move backward and forward, carry
enough air for the crew for the maxi
mum of submersion, and be fitted
for five self-acting torpedoes. The
vessels displacement is not to exceed
$50 tons. Finally the boats material
must be of home make. Such speci
acations as these call for destroyer
that will make the worlds heaviest
battle ships as panicky as blooded
horse walking on fire crackers
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-05-18

THERE is paper in Spokane called
the Silver Outburst. 1t is so breezy
that seventytwo knot gale is but as
a languid zephyr in it's nostrils. 1t il
a three-ring circuss with the bands
playing till you can't rest 1t is filed
with heavy matter, light matter, and
poetry in season. Its manager sug-
gets that perhaps we don't know the
Silver Outburst is not edited with
tomahawks, and that ideas are way
laid in the Northwest that would be
useful in business anywhere. To
which we hasten to confess we believe
the Silver Outburst has its stockade
full of ideas, and we are ready to take
a day off to sample them whenever
they flood this office.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-05-18
2. BAEYER. of Munich Tn

PROF. BAEYER, of Munich Uni
versity, has been rummaging around
among the mummy graves of Achmin,
and he has made a study of more
than archaeological interest. He has
eXhumed the remains of an embalmed
Egyptian princess, and with them a
lot Of cosmetics used for improving
the complexion and Frightening the
eyes three or four thousand years ago.
He is submitting the ingredients of
his find to chemical analysis, and
hopes to put these ancient prepare
tons on the market for the benefit of
the ladies of to-day. Prof. Baeyer's
discovery indicates that, so far as
woman nature is concerned, the
world hasn't changed a particle in
4 1000 years.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-05-18
COLORADO'S AIR.
1t Acts Like Tonic, but Creates a Glass
of Nervous People.

LIT Acts Like a Tonic, but Creates a Glass
of Nervous People.
One very noticeable popularity of the
people was their habit of speaking of
the East as "home."
cat home in the East we call that
Virginia creeper," said one. 81 90
home to New York every few months,
said another. 1--WE long to 90 back
East to our homes, but when we get
there the climate does not agree with
us, and we hurry back to Colorado"
Thus was revealed the peculiar tenure
the place has upon thousands of its citi-
zens. But among them are very many
who say that it is customary for Eastern
folks to let their regard for the East
keep warm until the moment comes
when they seriously consider the idea
they realize for the first time the magic
of the mountain air and the hold it has
upon them. Few indeed ever seriously
think of leaving it after one such con-
sultation with themselves.
But | must say it was a very queer
air. 1t keeps everyone keyed up to
the trembling point, melting the popu-
latlOn to tlreless incessant effort like q
ceaseless breathing-in of alcohol 1t
creates a highly nervous people, and,
as one man said, ''it is strange to fancy
what the literature of Colorado will be
when it develops it's own romancers
and poets, SO strong is the nervous
strain and mental eNaltation of the
people"
One would suppose alcohol unneces-
sary there; but, on the contrary, there
is much drinking. 1t is dangerous in
Il u, -,
cides are frequent. eff you stay here
week you will read of two," said
citizen. And l did.--Julia1o Ralph IN
H0lDer's Nn00-inp
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-05-18

council of women started a few
months ago sort of petition called
consent, the text Of which is as
follows:
"We, whose names are signed be-
low, consent to give our influence in
favor of an improvement in woman's
dress which will allow her the free
and healthful use Of the organs of her
body when walking or taking exer-
else. In signing this paper no one
of US becomes responsible for the
suggestions of any one else. nor do
we promise to wear or TO indorse any
particular style Of dress. We simply
give our influence to help start a
strong and healthy movement in
favor Of freedom and common sense
in dress, leaving ourselves free to
work for it as seems best to each
one."
More than a thousand women have
signed this document, among whom
are many who are distinctly conserv-
alive, though well known. It is now
proposed to circulate this document
among men as we'll as women.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-05-18
Lexas aIone is easily oaA dDIe or sup
porting 10000, 600 Of population.
A NEW YORK specialist, DR.. Peter

A NEW YORK specialist, DR.. Peter
son, says that among the insane peo-
pie who visit his office for treatment
are two "very insane" one acting as
a teacher and another who "has for
years been switching hundreds of
trains daily on great railroad. J"
When the wrong switch is thrown
some day and many lives are lost in
a horrible railroad wreck, this in
sane man may be discovered and
sent to an asylum. 1t might save
some railroad much trouble if DR..
Peterson would commit his patient
to an asylum now before he has
caused the wreck. In such affairs it
is Just as we'll to lock the stable door
before the horse is stolen.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-05-18

so exceptionally striking. A gym
nasium Dress" not in any important
aspect different from the ordinary
gymnasium costume, is also sug-
gested.
The committee members who have
recommended these costumes-Fran-
ces e. Russell, Annie Jenness Miller,
Frank Stuart Parker, and Octavia
w. Bates - together with several
other women prominent in the ma
tional council of women - have
pledged themselves to wear some on,
of these costumes during the Worlds
Fair. That they will succeed In pop
ularizing something which, while
modest and tasteful. will free woman
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-05-18
Short Skirts for walking.


Of the four different styles of walk
ing costumes recommended by the
committee on dress of the national
council of women, one at least is
trim, neat, artistic and withal wom-
anly, although truly the skirt is I'M
conventionally short, says the Chi
cago Post This costume is in four
pieces and is of one colored material.
There is long, graceful jacket open
ing over a blouse bodice; a skirt
reaching several inches below the
knees, and leggin' neatly fitted and
buttoned as are gaiter tops. These
leggins extend up over the knees.
While this costume is, of course, eX-
ceptional in being short Of skirt, it is
one that recommends itself, not only
because it is comfortable, convenient
and hygienic. but from the fact that
it is not calculated to challenge adj
verse criticism.
Another costume suggested by this
committee is what they call the
american costume" which is short
One-piece gown with a zouave jacket
open in the back as we'll as the front.
This gown has two box plaits in the
back and also in the front and fol-
lows the outline of the figure without
fitting it closely.
The Syrian costume, also recon-
mended by the committee, is the one
which was SO much mooted In the
London papers a few months ago.
The directions for making the skirt,
which closely resembles full Turkish
trousers, are as follows Take two
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-05-18

The syndicate Of tramps have OBJ
tanned control at one end of tele-
graph line that brings press reports.
A recent news dispatch in the papers
was to the effect that man who had
given Assistance" to a sidewalk beg
gar had received beQuest of $l2, 900
from the individual whose wants he
had relieved. The story is that the
gentleman referred to was requested
by a shabby man to provide him
something to eat; that he took the
shabby man into a restaurant, bought
him a meal, and gave him small
sum of money for the purchase Of a
further supply Of food; that the
tramp afterward came into posses
sion of property, and at his death
left it all by will to his benefactor.
1t is not probable, however, that any
great number of persons will be in
weighed by this report into invest
ments Of this kind any more than
they are caught by the lottery trick
of reporting that somebody some
where has drawn prize
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-05-18

dress of the matte MI council
this fact has been recognized.
The report of the committee opens
with the statement that the mem
bers have concerned themselves with
endeavoriug to devise costumes suit
able for business hours, for shopping,
marketing, homework, walking and
other forms of exercise. The further
statement is made that anything in
the form of a uniform is deprecated:
that they desire to make their
recommendation such a. to insure
large liberty Of choice and that they
hope to assist in delivering women
from the bondage in which fashion
has so long confined them.
In this connection it is of interest
that number of those who nave
pledged themselves to wear one of
these short costumes during the
Worlds Fair are women of wealth
and leisure. All that the committee
has aimed to accomplish is in the
line of walking costumes.
AS to evening or reception toilets,
or indeed gowns for the house or any
function, the trailing robe OF rich
material with all the features Of the
conventional full dress gown is ap-
proved both by precept and example
by these women. Indeed, it is key
note of the movement that they do
not set aside one jot or little of the
conventionalities of life. In fact,
several of this committee have re-
Gently had handsome evening gowns
made by Miss Barry, of Marshall
Field & Co., who makes speciality of
costumes that are in every respect
hygienic and yet that perfectly con-
form in general contour to the best
and latest modes. Some Of these
evening dresses are not only rich and
elegant but are so truly artistic that
they would delight the soul of a
painter.
In the interests of this reform. in
which the committee on dress has
taken the initiative, the national
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-05-18

full breadths of double width mate
rial, or four of medium single-W width
goods, and for the length measure
from under the heel to the usual
waist line. The divisions begin Just
above the knees, where cores nine
inches wide are inserted, with the
wide part uppermost, and joined.
At the waist this skirt is either
gathered or plated rather full in
front and very full behind, leaving it
somewhat scant in front Pockets
may be placed on either side in front
of the hips. When buttoned on a
skirt the placlet is in the back.
However, this costume may be made
as a one-piece costume by carrying
the length right on to the shoulders.
In this case the skirt should have two
short packets in the fullness at the
back, with a short band between to
button to the waist. In the front it
may open in tle front fullness. With
this costume no leggins are required,
as high-topped boots reach to the
lower gathered edge. A garment
somewhat scanter of this sort is
recommended to be worn under a
short princess dress.
The fourth of these costumes is
"the modified Syrian" This, while
much like the Syrian, has the divis-
ion beginning under the turn of the
skirt about ten inches lower than in
the regular Syrian costume. In this
the extra fullness is taken out over
the hips by means of several small
cores on each side To the waist
lining is attached pair Of loose linen
drawers that do not extend quite to
the knee, and the outside material,
instead of being sewed to band or
held in place by an elastic, is slightly
gored and sewed to the lower edge of
these drawers. In this way the sup
port of the costume from the Shout
ders is secured. In walking the divi-
sion is not defined in the Syrian COS
tune, and as the upper part of the
dress is more conventional it is not